New Leipzig ND-21ND039
Beside a road/17.6 mi away/2,339 ft/9 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/North Dakota/Leith
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Leith until 7 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Leith is 37° and mostly cloudy at 11 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 25 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 30° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 49°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 10 hours 57 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Leith, North Dakota.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Bismarck (ND), 52 miles off.
Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
0.15 in in the last 24 hours, 0.20 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Leith, North DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Leith, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
New Leipzig ND-21ND039
Beside a road/17.6 mi away/2,339 ft/9 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Heart River AT Heart Butte DamGLUN8
At a dam/18.8 mi away/2,083 ft/265 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/32.7 mi away/2,120 ft/228 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Glen UllinD57
At an airfield/33.2 mi away/2,077 ft/271 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Carson 4.8 SSWND-GT-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/2,398 ft/50 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ElginEGNN8
At a cooperative observer's station/10.3 mi away/2,398 ft/50 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 33.2 mi from Leith, North Dakota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 2,400 ft, overcast at 4,800 ft; the ceiling is 4,800 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
39.2 F with a dew point of 35.6 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 2,400 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 22 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.