Temperature
27 F at 6 AM; 41 F at its warmest, 7 AM Thursday, and 27 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
- Now
- 27F
- 6 AM
- Highest
- 41F
- 7 AM Thursday
- Lowest
- 27F
- 6 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/North Dakota/Bowman Regional Airport
Bowman Regional Airport, North Dakota
Small airport in Bowman County, North Dakota* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 25 expected. * WHERE...Western and much of central North Dakota. * WHEN...Until 10 AM CDT /9 AM MDT/ this morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect sensitive outdoor plants from the cold.
28°
56°/25°
Clear·
Feels like 22°·Light breeze 6 mph WNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Bowman Regional Airport until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 22 degrees warmer: a high of 78° after 56° today.
Now. Bowman Regional Airport is 28° and clear at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 22°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 78°, and the coolest Monday, near 65°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:05 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 9:43 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 55 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
100%Humidity
2%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
28feels22
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5625
21mph
Sat
Oct 17
7838
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6645
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
6538
18mph
Tue
Oct 20
7040
14mph
Wed
Oct 21
6944
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
7143
10%
17mph
28°
56°25°
78°38°
66°45°
65°38°
70°40°
69°44°
71°43°
As of 6:00 AM in Bowman Regional Airport, North Dakota.
Air quality
The air at Bowman Regional Airport
Index 18, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Theodore Roosevelt National Park (ND), 55 miles off.
18Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)8Good-
- Ozone18Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Bowman Regional Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. 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 Bowman Regional Airport, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 12 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- BWW
- ICAO
- KBWW
- IATA
- BWM
- Field elevation
- 2,965 ft
- Serves
- Bowman
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- BWW
- Wind now
- From 280° at 6 mph, read 16 Oct, 05:55
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Bowman (BWW), Bowman Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 27 F, the air 100% saturated; the humidity ran from 68% at 2 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM.
- Dew point now
- 27F
- 6 AM
- Humidity now
- 100%
- Humidity, range
- 68 to 100%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
6 mph from the west southwest at 6 AM; at its strongest 41 mph, 1 PM Thursday, with a gust of 55 mph at 2 PM Thursday.
- Now
- 6mph
- from the west southwest
- Strongest
- 41mph
- 1 PM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 55mph
- 2 PM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.69 inHg at 6 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.39 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.69inHg
- 6 AM
- 3 hours
- -0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- +0.39inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 4 miles at 3 PM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 4mi
- 3 PM Thursday
- 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 1,800 ft at 2 AM; a base was reported in 20 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 1,800ft
- 2 AM
- Hours with a base reported
- 20
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
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Bowman: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Bowman Regional 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 now3 instruments
BowmanBWW
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/2,935 ft/30 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Bowman US 85 MP 12.2ND020
Beside a road/6.3 mi away/2,911 ft/54 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
A remote fire weather station/28.2 mi away/2,697 ft/268 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
BowmanBOWN8
At a cooperative observer's station/4.9 mi away/2,966 ft/1 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Bowman 0.2 WSWND-BW-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/2,974 ft/9 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in North Dakota
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Bowman Regional Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Airports near Bowman Regional Airport
- Hettinger Municipal AirportHEI, 33 mi
- Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional AirportDIK, 50 mi
- Beach Airport20U, 62 mi
- Glen Ullin Regional AirportD57, 82 mi
- Weydahl Field9Y1, 88 mi
- Mercer County Regional AirportHZE, 113 mi
- Watford City Municipal AirportS25, 113 mi
- Mandan Municipal AirportY19, 122 mi