Ray US 2 MP 51.3ND024
Beside a road/2.3 mi away/2,365 ft/80 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/North Dakota/Ray
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Ray until 8 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 18 degrees warmer: a high of 68° after 50° today.
Now. Ray is 34° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 26°. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 11 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 68°, and the coolest Sunday, near 56°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 7:02 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:31 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 49 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Ray, North Dakota.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 6 instruments nearest Ray, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Ray US 2 MP 51.3ND024
Beside a road/2.3 mi away/2,365 ft/80 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
TiogaD60
At an airfield/12.6 mi away/2,264 ft/21 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Little Muddy River 10NE AT WillistonLMCN8
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.9 mi away/1,880 ft/405 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW6205EW6205
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.9 mi away/1,879 ft/406 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Tioga 0.7 NEND-WM-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.5 mi away/2,238 ft/47 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WillistonWLSN8
At a cooperative observer's station/25.1 mi away/1,889 ft/396 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.6 mi from Ray, North Dakota. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,900 ft; the ceiling is 2,900 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 2,900 ft.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 24 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 49 mph.
The full report of Tioga, 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.