New Leipzig ND-21ND039
Beside a road/14.7 mi away/2,339 ft/58 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/North Dakota/Heil
Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Heil until 7 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Heil is 38° and overcast at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 26°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the north-northwest at 27 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 28° by 6 AM, with some cloud. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 50°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 26°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 day is 10 hours 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Heil, North Dakota.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Bismarck (ND), 53 miles off.
Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
0.08 in in the last 24 hours, 0.15 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 6 miles Thu 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Heil, North DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Heil, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
New Leipzig ND-21ND039
Beside a road/14.7 mi away/2,339 ft/58 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Heart River AT Heart Butte DamGLUN8
At a dam/15.5 mi away/2,083 ft/198 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Glen UllinD57
At an airfield/30.1 mi away/2,077 ft/204 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/30.4 mi away/2,120 ft/161 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Elgin 8.5 ENEND-GT-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/2,156 ft/125 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ElginEGNN8
At a cooperative observer's station/6.8 mi away/2,398 ft/117 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 30.1 mi from Heil, North Dakota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 3,500 ft, overcast at 4,500 ft; the ceiling is 4,500 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
41.0 F with a dew point of 37.4 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 3,500 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 22 mph, gusting 30 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 54 mph.
The full report of Glen Ullin, 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.