Temperature
45 F at 10 PM; 55 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 33 F at its coolest, 7 AM.
- Now
- 45F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 55F
- 4 PM
- Lowest
- 33F
- 7 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/North Dakota/Bismarck Municipal Airport
Bismarck Municipal Airport, North Dakota
Medium airport in Burleigh County, North Dakota44°
55°/31°
Clear·
Feels like 38°·Gentle breeze 12 mph S
Coming up. Tomorrow is 19 degrees warmer: a high of 74° after 55° today.
Now. Bismarck Municipal Airport is 44° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south at 12 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. 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 74°, and the coolest Sunday, near 64°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 35% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 53 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
26Air quality
55%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
44feels38
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5531
14mph
Sat
Oct 17
7435
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6444
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
6433
12mph
Tue
Oct 20
6738
overcast
Wed
Oct 21
6542
overcast
Thu
Oct 22
7040
13mph
44°
55°31°
74°35°
64°44°
64°33°
67°38°
65°42°
70°40°
As of 11:00 PM in Bismarck Municipal Airport, North Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Bismarck Municipal Airport
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Bismarck (ND), 4 miles off.
26Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)9Good3.9 mi
- Ozone26Good26 ppb3.9 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good3.9 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide0Good0.8 ppb3.9 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.1 ppb3.9 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 21, good.
GoodModerate
- 21YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 7 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Bismarck Municipal Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Bismarck Municipal Airport, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 7 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- BIS
- ICAO
- KBIS
- IATA
- BIS
- Field elevation
- 1,661 ft
- Serves
- Bismarck
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- Yes
- Its own instrument
- BIS
- Wind now
- From 190° at 10 mph, read 16 Oct, 22:52
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 | 6,600 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 38° / 218° | 9 mph head, on 21 | 5 mph from the left |
| 13 / 31 | 8,794 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 137° / 317° | 6 mph head, on 13 | 8 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Bismarck (BIS), Bismarck Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 29 F, the air 53% saturated; the humidity ran from 32% at 4 PM to 89% at 8 AM.
- Dew point now
- 29F
- 10 PM
- Humidity now
- 53%
- Humidity, range
- 32 to 89%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
11 mph from the south at 11 PM; at its strongest 19 mph, 12 AM, with a gust of 35 mph at 12 AM.
- Now
- 11mph
- from the south
- Strongest
- 19mph
- 12 AM
- Highest gust
- 35mph
- 12 AM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.28 inHg at 11 PM, falling 0.08 inHg over 3 hours; 0.29 inHg lower than a day before.
- Now
- 30.28inHg
- 11 PM
- 3 hours
- -0.08inHg
- falling
- 24 hours
- -0.29inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
10 miles or more every hour.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 10+mi
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 2,000 ft at 5 AM; a base was reported in 7 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 2,000ft
- 5 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 7
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- 0.00in
- 12 AM
- Hours with some
- 2
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Bismarck: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Bismarck Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
BismarckBIS
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/1,660 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mandan #1S2020
At a soil climate station/8.0 mi away/1,930 ft/269 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Moffit 3 SE [CCOOP]MFTN8
At a river or reservoir gauge/25.5 mi away/1,798 ft/137 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Hazelton US-83ND047
Beside a road/28.5 mi away/1,962 ft/301 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Bismarck WFOBRKN8
At a cooperative observer's station/0.6 mi away/1,651 ft/10 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Bismarck 3.1 SND-MT-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/1,692 ft/31 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in North Dakota
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Bismarck Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near Bismarck Municipal Airport
- Mandan Municipal AirportY19, 7 mi
- Linton Municipal Airport7L2, 45 mi
- Glen Ullin Regional AirportD57, 53 mi
- Mercer County Regional AirportHZE, 53 mi
- Harvey Municipal Airport5H4, 80 mi
- Carrington Municipal Airport46D, 88 mi
- Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional AirportDIK, 97 mi
- Jamestown Regional AirportJMS, 98 mi