Moffit 3 SE [CCOOP]MFTN8
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.6 mi away/1,798 ft/73 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/North Dakota/Driscoll
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Driscoll until 8 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 22 degrees warmer: a high of 71° after 49° today.
Now. Driscoll is 40° and light rain at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 31°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 47° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 71°, and the coolest Monday, near 62°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:27 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 53 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Driscoll, North Dakota.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Bismarck (ND), 30 miles off.
Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, 0.05 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Driscoll, North DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 8 instruments nearest Driscoll, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 12.6 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Moffit 3 SE [CCOOP]MFTN8
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.6 mi away/1,798 ft/73 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Hazelton US-83ND047
Beside a road/24.7 mi away/1,962 ft/91 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
BismarckBIS
At an airfield/29.0 mi away/1,660 ft/211 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW2059CW2059
In a volunteer observer's own ground/30.4 mi away/1,912 ft/41 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Jamestown 38 WSW54937
At a climate reference station/32.2 mi away/1,920 ft/49 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Mandan #1S2020
At a soil climate station/37.0 mi away/1,930 ft/59 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Moffit 3.3 SND-EM-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.4 mi away/1,818 ft/53 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RoletteRTEN8
At a cooperative observer's station/25.4 mi away/1,985 ft/114 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 29.0 mi from Driscoll, North Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:52 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,300 ft, broken at 4,800 ft; the ceiling is 2,300 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.0 F with a dew point of 37.0 F, 76 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,600 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,300 ft.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 18 mph, gusting 35 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 mph.
The full report of Bismarck, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.