Tatanka PrairieTTKN8
At a river or reservoir gauge/25.8 mi away/2,339 ft/405 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/North Dakota/Flasher
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Flasher 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. Flasher is 40° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 21 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° 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 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:57 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:33 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 55 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Flasher, North Dakota.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Bismarck (ND), 33 miles off.
Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.05 in in the last 24 hours, 0.26 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 9 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Flasher, North DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Flasher, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Tatanka PrairieTTKN8
At a river or reservoir gauge/25.8 mi away/2,339 ft/405 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mandan #1S2020
At a soil climate station/26.2 mi away/1,930 ft/4 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
MandamY19
At an airfield/26.9 mi away/1,942 ft/8 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Fort Yates ND-1806ND046
Beside a road/31.0 mi away/1,923 ft/11 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
In a volunteer observer's own ground/33.4 mi away/2,120 ft/186 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
FlasherFLAN8
At a cooperative observer's station/1.8 mi away/2,001 ft/67 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Shields 3.7 NNEND-GT-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.1 mi away/1,877 ft/57 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 26.9 mi from Flasher, North Dakota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,300 ft, overcast at 4,600 ft; the ceiling is 4,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
41.0 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,300 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 18 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 46 mph.
The full report of Mandam, 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.