Fall Weather at Noatak Airport United States

Daily high temperatures decrease by 47°F, from 54°F to 7°F, rarely falling below -11°F or exceeding 62°F.

Daily low temperatures decrease by 42°F, from 37°F to -4°F, rarely falling below -22°F or exceeding 46°F.

For reference, on July 8, the hottest day of the year, temperatures at Noatak Airport typically range from 46°F to 65°F, while on January 20, the coldest day of the year, they range from -12°F to 2°F.

The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average fall temperatures. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.

Nizhniy Odes, Russia (3,183 miles away); Barsovo, Russia (3,112 miles); and Tosontsengel, Mongolia (3,386 miles) are the far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar to Noatak Airport (view comparison).

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The fall at Noatak Airport experiences essentially constant cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy remaining about 58% throughout the season. The lowest chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 56% on October 10.

The clearest day of the fall is October 10, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 44% of the time.

For reference, on July 30, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 63%, while on March 13, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 48%.

A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. At Noatak Airport, the chance of a wet day over the course of the fall is very rapidly decreasing, starting the season at 28% and ending it at 11%.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 36% on August 10, and its lowest chance is 6% on March 17.

Over the course of the fall at Noatak Airport, the chance of a day with only rain decreases from 27% to 0%, the chance of a day with mixed snow and rain remains an essentially constant 3% throughout, and the chance of a day with only snow increases from 0% to 10%.

Rainfall

To show variation within the season and not just the monthly totals, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.

The average sliding 31-day rainfall during the fall at Noatak Airport is very rapidly decreasing, starting the season at 2.2 inches, when it rarely exceeds 3.6 inches or falls below 0.8 inches, and ending the season at 0.1 inches, when it rarely exceeds 0.2 inches or falls below -0.0 inches.

Snowfall

As with rainfall, we consider the snowfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.

The average sliding 31-day snowfall during the fall at Noatak Airport is very rapidly increasing, starting the season at 0.4 inches, when it rarely exceeds 1.5 inches or falls below -0.0 inches, and ending the season at 5.8 inches, when it rarely exceeds 11.6 inches or falls below 0.3 inches.

Due to its extreme latitude, Noatak Airport experiences polar day (also known as the midnight Sun) during the summer and polar night during the winter. These are periods of time in which the sun is continuously above or below the horizon for more than one day. The precise start and end dates of polar day and night vary from year to year and depend on the precise location and elevation of the observer, and the local topography.

Neither polar day nor polar night occur during the fall.

Over the course of the fall at Noatak Airport, the length of the day is very rapidly decreasing. From the start to the end of the season, the length of the day decreases by 12 hours, 1 minute, implying an average daily decrease of 8 minutes, 1 second, and weekly decrease of 56 minutes, 4 seconds.

The shortest day of the fall is November 30, with 2 hours, 53 minutes of daylight and the longest day is September 1, with 14 hours, 54 minutes of daylight.

The earliest sunrise of the fall at Noatak Airport is 7:23 AM on September 1 and the latest sunrise is 4 hours, 51 minutes later at 12:13 PM on November 30.

The latest sunset is 10:17 PM on September 1 and the earliest sunset is 7 hours, 10 minutes earlier at 3:07 PM on November 30.

Daylight saving time (DST) starts at 1:00 AM on November 3, 2024, shifting sunrise and sunset to be an hour later.

The figure below presents a compact representation of the sun's elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon) and azimuth (its compass bearing) for every hour of every day in the reporting period. The horizontal axis is the day of the year and the vertical axis is the hour of the day. For a given day and hour of that day, the background color indicates the azimuth of the sun at that moment. The black isolines are contours of constant solar elevation.

The figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for the fall of 2024. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon. The vertical gray bars (new Moons) and blue bars (full Moons) indicate key Moon phases. The label associated with each bar indicates the date and time that the phase is obtained, and the companion time labels indicate the rise and set times of the Moon for the nearest time interval in which the moon is above the horizon.

We base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night.

The chance that a given day will be muggy at Noatak Airport is essentially constant during the fall, remaining around 0% throughout.

For reference, on July 24, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time, while on January 1, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time.

This section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages.

The average hourly wind speed at Noatak Airport is very rapidly increasing during the fall, increasing from 9.0 miles per hour to 13.5 miles per hour over the course of the season.

For reference, on December 29, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 14.4 miles per hour, while on June 27, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 7.4 miles per hour.

The hourly average wind direction at Noatak Airport throughout the fall is predominantly from the east, with a peak proportion of 69% on November 25.

Noatak Airport is located near a large body of water (e.g., ocean, sea, or large lake). This section reports on the wide-area average surface temperature of that water.

The average surface water temperature at Noatak Airport is very rapidly decreasing during the fall, falling by 19°F, from 49°F to 30°F, over the course of the season.

Definitions of the growing season vary throughout the world, but for the purposes of this report, we define it as the longest continuous period of non-freezing temperatures (≥ 32°F) in the year (the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere, or from July 1 until June 30 in the Southern Hemisphere).

The growing season at Noatak Airport typically lasts for 2.5 months (79 days), from around June 7 to around August 24, rarely starting before May 19 or after June 29, and rarely ending before July 25 or after September 14.

The fall at Noatak Airport is more likely than not fully outside of the growing season, with the chance that a given day is in the growing season rapidly decreasing from 33% to 0% over the course of the season.

Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature, discarding any excess above a maximum temperature. In this report, we use a base of 50°F and a cap of 86°F.

The average accumulated growing degree days at Noatak Airport are essentially constant during the fall, remaining within 9°F of 485°F throughout.

This section discusses the total daily incident shortwave solar energy reaching the surface of the ground over a wide area, taking full account of seasonal variations in the length of the day, the elevation of the Sun above the horizon, and absorption by clouds and other atmospheric constituents. Shortwave radiation includes visible light and ultraviolet radiation.

The average daily incident shortwave solar energy at Noatak Airport is very rapidly decreasing during the fall, falling by 2.8 kWh, from 2.8 kWh to 0.0 kWh, over the course of the season.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Noatak Airport are 67.565 deg latitude, -162.974 deg longitude, and 52 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Noatak Airport is essentially flat, with a maximum elevation change of 49 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 55 feet. Within 10 miles is essentially flat (1,129 feet). Within 50 miles contains very significant variations in elevation (4,462 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Noatak Airport is covered by sparse vegetation (42%), herbaceous vegetation (19%), water (17%), and shrubs (12%), within 10 miles by shrubs (47%) and herbaceous vegetation (24%), and within 50 miles by shrubs (46%) and water (22%).