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Bowdoinham, ME Weather Forecast

Sagadahoc County, Maine

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Conditions now · Thu, 7:53 AM EDT
37°FDewpoint 35°FClear

Measured at KIWI · Wiscasset Arpt, ME · airport · 9.4 mi away · 43 minutes ago

Bowdoinham, ME at Thu, 7:53 AM EDT: 37°F and clear, measured at KIWI (Wiscasset Arpt, ME) 9.4 mi away, 43 minutes ago. Rest of today: high 64°F, low 37°F, 3% chance of precipitation. No active National Weather Service alerts for this location.

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What is happeningWritten from the numbers on this page

Dry for the moment, with rain moving in overnight

It is 43°, but the wind is taking it down to 39° on exposed skin. The sky is clear.

The first rain arrives between 3 AM and 4 AM. That leaves a usable window outdoors until about 3 AM, and it closes quickly after that.

Hour by hour
8 AMClear37°F0%
9 AMClear43°F0%
10 AMClear49°F0%
11 AMClear54°F0%
12 PMClear59°F0%
1 PMClear62°F0%
2 PMClear64°F0%
3 PMClear64°F0%
4 PMClear63°F0%
5 PMClear61°F0%
6 PMClear59°F0%
7 PMClear58°F0%

Next 36 hours

One wet spell, dry either side of it

The wet part of the window runs from about 3 AM to 6 AM, 3 hours of it, with the highest chance near 3 AM. Total accumulation over the window comes to about 0.01 in.

It tapers off after 6 AM. The overnight low settles near 43°. Tomorrow tops out near 63°.

Seven-day outlook

26–64°F across the week
TodayOct 29Clear · 3% chance of rain37°F / 64°F
FriOct 30Scattered rain · 34% chance of rain43°F / 63°F
SatOct 31Clear · 0% chance of rain30°F / 51°F
SunNov 1Mostly sunny · 0% chance of rain26°F / 55°F
MonNov 2Mostly sunny · 2% chance of rain34°F / 62°F
TueNov 3Partly cloudy · 7% chance of rain37°F / 56°F
WedNov 4Mostly cloudy · 22% chance of rain39°F / 57°F
ThuNov 5Mostly cloudy · 22% chance of rain40°F / 58°F
FriNov 6Scattered rain · 39% chance of rain44°F / 57°F
SatNov 7Partly cloudy · 24% chance of rain40°F / 55°F
SunNov 8Partly cloudy · 18% chance of rain34°F / 53°F

The week runs between 26° and 64°, with today the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Tomorrow is the wettest day, peaking near 34%. 6 of the 7 days stay dry.

Forecasts come from the National Weather Service's own computer models, and current conditions from the nearest reporting weather station. Both are served through the weather API. A forecast is guidance, not a warning, and anything the Weather Service has actually issued is on the live map.

The written summaries on this page are generated from the forecast data above, not by a meteorologist. Each sentence is a reading of the same numbers you can see, and no forecaster has reviewed them.

About the Bowdoinham forecast

Bowdoinham sits at 44.0442°N, 69.8638°W in Sagadahoc County, Maine. The forecast above is drawn for that point from the National Weather Service's own computer models: a seven-day outlook, and a finer-grained one covering the next eighteen hours where it reaches, and the radar and alert panels show what the Weather Service has out over the area right now.

County
Sagadahoc County
Coordinates
44.0442°N, 69.8638°W
Population
3,185 · 2023 estimate
Land area
34.43 sq mi

Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Bowdoinham, and the forecast is for that location, not for every address inside the city limits, and a large city can have real weather differences from one side to the other.

How well can the network see Bowdoinham?

The nearest Doppler radar is KGYX (Portland, ME), 22 miles to the WSW. A WSR-88D's lowest routine scan sits half a degree above horizontal, and the earth curves away beneath it, so by the time that beam reaches Bowdoinham its center is about 1,300 ft above ground. That is about as close as radar coverage gets in the United States: the lowest scan is still near the ground when it reaches Bowdoinham, so low-level rotation and the leading edge of a gust front show up on it. Bowdoinham is closer to its radar than 82% of US cities.

The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KIWI · Wiscasset Arpt on the ASOS/AWOS network, 9.4 miles away. Near enough to be representative on most days, though a summer thunderstorm can soak one and miss the other entirely.

Beam height is the standard 4/3-earth approximation for the 0.5° scan and assumes normal refraction; it is where the center of the beam is, not its edges, and unusual temperature profiles bend it. Radar siting from the NWS WSR-88D network, station positions from the Maine observing network as of this build.

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