Tatanka PrairieTTKN8
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.7 mi away/2,339 ft/245 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/North Dakota/Raleigh
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Raleigh until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 19 degrees warmer: a high of 72° after 53° today.
Now. Raleigh is 34° and partly cloudy at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 26°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 72°, and the coolest Monday, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:57 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 9:34 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 54 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Raleigh, North Dakota.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Bismarck (ND), 41 miles off.
Yesterday measured 21, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
0.03 in in the last 24 hours, 0.31 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 12 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Raleigh, North DakotaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Raleigh, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.8 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Tatanka PrairieTTKN8
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.7 mi away/2,339 ft/245 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Fort Yates ND-1806ND046
Beside a road/32.2 mi away/1,923 ft/171 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mandan #1S2020
At a soil climate station/33.7 mi away/1,930 ft/164 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
MandamY19
At an airfield/34.4 mi away/1,942 ft/152 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/37.1 mi away/2,120 ft/26 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
FlasherFLAN8
At a cooperative observer's station/5.8 mi away/2,001 ft/93 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Shields 3.7 NNEND-GT-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.5 mi away/1,877 ft/217 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 34.4 mi from Raleigh, North Dakota. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
30.2 F with a dew point of 30.2 F, 100 per cent relative humidity. The air is saturated at the ground.
Calm.
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.