In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.6 mi away/2,120 ft/30 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Weather/North Dakota/New Salem
Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for New Salem 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. New Salem is 40° and mostly cloudy at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the north-northwest at 25 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 29° by 8 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 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 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 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, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in New Salem, North Dakota.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Bismarck (ND), 30 miles off.
Yesterday measured 52, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 7 PM.
Precipitation
0.05 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 9 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
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The 7 instruments nearest New Salem, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.6 mi away/2,120 ft/30 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Glen UllinD57
At an airfield/21.2 mi away/2,077 ft/73 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mandan #1S2020
At a soil climate station/24.1 mi away/1,930 ft/220 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Heart River AT Heart Butte DamGLUN8
At a dam/25.4 mi away/2,083 ft/67 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Washburn ESS US-83ND026
Beside a road/36.4 mi away/1,869 ft/281 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
New SalemNWSN8
At a cooperative observer's station/5.0 mi away/2,192 ft/42 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Mandan 8.7 NWND-MT-21
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.9 mi away/1,825 ft/325 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.2 mi from New Salem, North Dakota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 2,000 ft, broken at 3,300 ft, overcast at 3,900 ft; the ceiling is 3,300 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 2,000 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 29 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
Measured at New Salem (NWSN8), 5.0 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 09:00. measured daily
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.