Temperature
42 F at 10 PM; 45 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 34 F at its coolest, 5 AM.
- Now
- 42F
- 10 PM
- Highest
- 45F
- 2 PM
- Lowest
- 34F
- 5 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/North Dakota/Bottineau Municipal Airport
Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Bottineau Municipal Airport until 8 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Bottineau Municipal Airport is 40° and overcast at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 31°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 21 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 28° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 48°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
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. 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 51 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Bottineau Municipal Airport, North Dakota.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sat 7 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 9 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 unlit | 2,115 ft | 170 ft | Grass | 30° / 210° | 16 mph head, on 03 | 13 mph from the left |
| 13 / 31 | 3,700 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 135° / 315° | 17 mph head, on 31 | 12 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Bottineau (D09), Bottineau Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
42 F at 10 PM; 45 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 34 F at its coolest, 5 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 37 F, the air 83% saturated; the humidity ran from 81% at 10 AM to 100% at 12 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
22 mph from the north at 10 PM; at its strongest 28 mph, 5 PM, with a gust of 47 mph at 5 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.47 inHg at 10 PM, rising 0.12 inHg over 3 hours; 0.42 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 3 miles at 12 PM; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 1,400 ft at 12 PM; a base was reported in 21 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.05 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 1 AM.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Bottineau: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Bottineau Municipal 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
BottineauD09
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/1,670 ft/11 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Dunseith ESS US-28 1ND029
Beside a road/16.7 mi away/1,686 ft/5 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
J. Clark SalyerJCSN8
At a river or reservoir gauge/20.6 mi away/1,434 ft/247 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
BottineauBOTN8
At a cooperative observer's station/1.5 mi away/1,650 ft/31 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Bottineau 6.4 ENEND-BT-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/2,214 ft/533 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
21 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.