Drake US-52ND040
Beside a road/3.0 mi away/1,591 ft/23 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/North Dakota/Balfour
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Balfour until 8 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 18 degrees warmer: a high of 66° after 48° today.
Now. Balfour is 35° and overcast at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 25°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 47° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 66°, and the coolest Sunday, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:22 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 10 hours 50 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Balfour, North Dakota.
Air quality
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Beulah (ND), 73 miles off.
Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 9 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Balfour, North DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Balfour, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.7 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Drake US-52ND040
Beside a road/3.0 mi away/1,591 ft/23 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Harvey5H4
At an airfield/30.0 mi away/1,604 ft/10 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
BalfourBFRN8
At a cooperative observer's station/2.7 mi away/1,601 ft/13 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Anamoose 8.9 NEND-PR-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.7 mi away/1,545 ft/69 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.