Prism Microclimate · North Dakota

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Aerial photo, 2023

Example field

Spring wheat

Spring wheat (2025 crop on record) · 299 acres · Cass County

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Spray outlook, next 48 hours

GoodToo calmLikely inversionToo windy

Too windy 15 h · Good 19 h · Likely inversion 4 h · Too calm 6 h. Good means steady 3–10 mph wind; calm evenings risk drift in still air.

Crop health through the season

Latest picture below this field's normal for the date (7 past years). This year in colour, past years in grey.

Crop rotation, 2018–2025

2018Corn
2019Soybeans
2020Soybeans
2021Corn
2022Soybeans
2023Corn
2024Soybeans
2025Spring wheat

County risk profile

Low

Insured losses for spring wheat in Cass County rank low among the 53 North Dakota counties that insure it (low → high). Main causes here: excess moisture (73%), hail (10%), drought (4%). County history, not this field's own losses.

Latest satellite picture

Satellite picture of Spring wheat on Sep 15, 2026 — Sep 15, 2026 ·

Planting date

Default date — set yours for a better stage estimate

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What “for this field” means here.

Almost every value below describes the surrounding area, soil map unit or a weather station near this field, not the field itself — a square kilometre of radar, a soil map unit, a weather station some distance away. Each card says which, and what that means for trusting it.

Selected-field intelligence · public data

Harwood · Spring wheat

FIELD-SCOPED

62°F and sunny in the forecast for your field's area. 1 official alert active.

FORECAST

Next forecast hour

62°F · Sunny

36% RH · 18 mph NW · 0% rain chance

As of Oct 1, 1:00 PM CDT

ESTIMATED

Rain at field coordinate

0.000 in

Radar-estimated rain at your field over the last hour.

As of Oct 1, 12:00 PM CDT

OBSERVED

Nearest physical rain gauge

3.05 in

Seven-day total at the nearest volunteer rain gauge, about 7 miles away. Trace and multi-day reports are kept apart.

As of Sep 30, 2026

MODELLED

Upper-40-cm saturation

38.0%

Modelled wetness of the top 16 inches, not a soil-probe reading.

As of Aug 18, 6:00 AM CDT

SURVEY

Mapped soil and drainage

Fargo silty clay, 0 to 1 percent slopes

Fargo · Poorly drained · hydrologic group C/D.

As of Aug 20, 3:48 AM CDT

MODELLED

30-day climate context

4.83 in

30 days · mean 65.2°F · a coarse, area-wide climate record.

As of Sep 28, 2026

OFFICIAL

Official alerts at this field

1 active

Frost Advisory

As of Oct 1, 1:28 PM CDT

Regional stations and the nearest rain gauge

Two nearby stations · same days

A long-record station vs a farm weather station

Measurement	Long-record station	Farm weather station	Difference
Mean temperature28 paired days	64.8°F	64.5°F	-0.3°F
Precipitation28 paired days	3.49 in	3.73 in	+0.24 in

These are two regional stations compared with each other, not with your field.

Nearby physical gauge support

4.60 in over the latest 30 calendar days

30 valid daily totals · 0 trace · 0 accumulated · 0 missing.

Only valid daily values are summed. Accumulated multi-day reports are retained but excluded to avoid assigning rain to an invented day.

Rain, soil wetness and drainage together

Radar shows no rain at your field in the latest hour; modelled soil wetness is 38% of saturation in the top 16 inches. The soil survey maps this field as poorly drained, which tells you how fast water leaves it.

Inputs retain separate evidence classes and timestamps. This is screening context—not proof of infiltration, field workability, crop stress, or a local sensor measurement.

Readings at nearby public stations

Measured near this field65.8°FRegional air temperature · 2026-09-30Measured near this field49.1°FRegional dew point · 2026-09-30Measured near this field5.2mphRegional wind · 2026-09-30Measured near this field2.78 inRain · last 7 reported days · 2026-09-30Measured near this field18.4%Regional soil moisture · 2026-09-30

These are real public station/gauge/probe observations. They do not change when another illustrated field is selected because their instrument locations do not move; the coordinate-selected products above do.

Analysed conditions · last 24 hours · modelled, not measured

Hourly weather analysis for your field’s area

ANALYSIS · Oct 1, 11:00 AM

58°F

air

21mph

wind · gust 30

37°F

dew point

320°

wind from

2 PM temperature °F wind mph (faint: gust)11 AM

Each value describes the area around your field (1.6 miles across), not the field itself. 22 of the last 24 hours are in; the corrected version (about six hours behind) covers 13 of them.

Field-coordinate evidence

Soil, satellite and rain readings for this field

Soil survey for this field

Fargo silty clay, 0 to 1 percent slopes

SURVEY

Dominant componentFargo80% of map unit

DrainagePoorly drainedHydrologic group C/D

Slope0.5%I229A · Consociation

Ap0–20 cm5% sand · 47% silt · 48% clay5% organic matter · AWC 0.16

A20–33 cm5% sand · 45% silt · 50% clay3% organic matter · AWC 0.15

Bss33–53 cm3% sand · 45% silt · 52% clay2% organic matter · AWC 0.15

Bkg53–81 cm5% sand · 45% silt · 50% clay1% organic matter · AWC 0.15

Cg81–200 cm5% sand · 47% silt · 48% clay1% organic matter · AWC 0.16

Soil survey profile for this boundary's dominant map unit (61% of the boundary by area). It describes mapped soil properties; it is not a live soil sensor or current moisture measurement.

Soil properties inside this boundary · modelled soil maps

Boundary soil properties

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Soil wetness at your field · modelled, not measured

Near-surface soil saturation

MODELLED38.0%upper 40 cm · valid 2026-08-18 06:00:00-05

Modelled wetness of the top 16 inches of soil. It is modelled, not a soil-sensor reading in the field.

Satellite reading for your field's area

Surface soil moisture from satellite

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Satellite view of your field's area

Greenness, surface temperature, snow

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Surface temperature, day—no clear view this week

Surface temperature, night—no clear view this week

Snow cover—no retained snow map

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Radar-estimated rain at your field

Rainfall at your field

Radar rain estimate blends radar, gauges and model context. It estimates precipitation at the field coordinate; it is not a rain gauge installed in the field.

ESTIMATED0.000 in1-hour accumulation ending 2026-10-01 12:00:00-05

A second rain estimate for this hour is not in yet.

Hourly rain record for your field

Hourly rain record under this boundary since 1979

Read from the retained long-term hourly rain record years only; the count and the wettest hour describe the area containing the centroid, and the record is a modelled analysis, not a gauge.

RETAINED411,240 hhours retained · 1979–2025 · 47 of 47 publisher years

Wettest hour on record here: 38.8 mm (1.53 in), the hour ending Jul 25, 2020, 1 AM — among the years held so far.

Climate record for your field's area · modelled, not measured

Climate record at the field coordinate

MODELLED

16,707 daily records retained from 1981-01-01 through 2026-09-28.

Latest mean59.1°F2026-09-28

Latest range51.9–63.0°F89% RH

30-day precipitation4.83 in30 reported days

30-day solar energy358kWh/m²

This climate record is modelled over an area roughly 35 miles across. It is climate context near the coordinate, not a hyperlocal field observation.

This field from above

Satellite pictures of the boundary itself, one kilometre around it, at ten metres. Optical scenes need clear sky, so a cloudy stretch has no picture rather than a poor one; radar sees through cloud and is there either way.

Satellite · true colour

Latest clear look · Sep 15, 2026

Satellite · NDVI

Greenness · Sep 15, 2026

bare −0.2dense canopy 0.9

Satellite · radar

Radar, through any cloud · Sep 25, 2026

Satellite radar VH backscatter, Sep 25, 2026, boundary outlined

Satellite · same time last year

A year earlier · Sep 16, 2025

Satellite true colour, Sep 16, 2025, boundary outlined

Satellite NDVI, Sep 16, 2025, boundary outlined; boundary mean 0.19

Satellite · earlier clear looks

The two scenes before

Satellite true colour, Sep 13, 2026, boundary outlined

Sep 13, 2026 · NDVI 0.25

Satellite true colour, Sep 8, 2026, boundary outlined

Sep 8, 2026 · NDVI 0.28

Satellite · history

Greenness by month, growing seasons since 2019

Context under the field

Lightning, smoke, river, wetlands, climate

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