Buckland Airport, Alaska

Small airport in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska

27° 35°/24°

Overcast· Feels like 17°·Gentle breeze 10 mph NNW

Now. Buckland Airport is 27° and overcast at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 17°. The dew point is 20°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 10 mph.

Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 24° by 1 AM, with some cloud. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.

The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 36°, and the coolest Monday, near 31°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 21°.

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. 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 day is 9 hours 38 minutes long, 7 minutes shorter than yesterday.

0UV Low

-Air quality

78%Humidity

76%Cloud

Now

9:00 PM

27feels17

Today

Oct 15

3524

14mph

Fri

Oct 16

3621

23%

15mph

Sat

Oct 17

3525

26%

15mph

Sun

Oct 18

3520

Mon

Oct 19

3118

12%

Tue

Oct 20

3117

13%

14mph

Wed

Oct 21

3218

13mph

27°

35°24°

36°21°

35°25°

35°20°

31°18°

31°17°

32°18°

As of 9:00 PM in Buckland Airport, Alaska.

Airfield

Code: BVK
ICAO: PABL
IATA: BKC
Field elevation: 31 ft
Serves: Buckland
Kind: Small airport
Scheduled service: Yes
Its own instrument: PABL
Wind now: -

Runways

Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Heading, true	Wind along it now	Crosswind now
11 / 29 unlit	3,200 ft	75 ft	Gravel	122° / 302°	-	-

Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale.

What is measuring near here

The 3 instruments nearest Buckland Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.

measured now2 instruments

BucklandPABL

At an airfield/0.0 mi away/43 ft/12 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Buckland RAWSBKLA2

A remote fire weather station/9.3 mi away/388 ft/357 ft above here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

measured daily1 instrument

Buckland 0.3 SEAK-NA-3

In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/13 ft/18 ft below here

precip, snowfall, snow depth