Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 68° after 79° today.
Now. Bend Municipal Airport is 42° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 53): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 68°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Wednesday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:08 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 59 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Bend Municipal Airport, Oregon.
Air quality
Index 53, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Bend and Redmond (OR), 6 miles off.
Yesterday measured 28, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 / 35 unlit | 5,201 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 2 mph head, on 17 | 2 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Bend (BDN), Bend Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
53 F at 8 PM Thursday; 72 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 34 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 36 F, the air 52% saturated; the humidity ran from 27% at 2 PM Thursday to 89% at 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
5 mph from the west southwest at 8 PM Thursday; at its strongest 8 mph, 4 PM Thursday, with a gust of 15 mph at 3 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.44 inHg at 8 PM Thursday, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.03 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 4 miles at 9 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Bend: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Bend 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
BendBDN
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/3,460 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US97 SB at SW 61st St MP128.51OD158
Beside a road/6.3 mi away/3,212 ft/248 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Tumalo Ridge RAWSTMRO3
A remote fire weather station/10.4 mi away/3,990 ft/530 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bend 7 NEBWTO3
At a cooperative observer's station/1.7 mi away/3,366 ft/94 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Bend 7.3 EOR-DS-76
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/3,448 ft/12 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Bend 7 NE (BWTO3), 1.7 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 09:00. measured daily
25 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.