BismarckBIS
At an airfield/10.6 mi away/1,660 ft/67 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/North Dakota/Menoken
Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Menoken until 8 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. Menoken is 42° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 21 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 32° by 8 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 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 49°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
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 56 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Menoken, North Dakota.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Bismarck (ND), 11 miles off.
Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 9 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Menoken, North DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Menoken, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
BismarckBIS
At an airfield/10.6 mi away/1,660 ft/67 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW2059CW2059
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.2 mi away/1,912 ft/185 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Moffit 3 SE [CCOOP]MFTN8
At a river or reservoir gauge/17.4 mi away/1,798 ft/71 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mandan #1S2020
At a soil climate station/18.5 mi away/1,930 ft/203 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Hazelton US-83ND047
Beside a road/24.3 mi away/1,962 ft/235 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Menoken 0.0 NNEND-BH-58
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/1,705 ft/22 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Bismarck WFOBRKN8
At a cooperative observer's station/11.2 mi away/1,651 ft/76 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.6 mi from Menoken, North Dakota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:05 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Broken at 2,300 ft, overcast at 4,700 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 (330 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 29 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 49 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.