Citizen station GW4314GW4314
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/2,799 ft/159 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
High Wind Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A High Wind Warning is in force for Catalina State Park until 5 AM Saturday. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Catalina State Park is 74° and clear at 7 PM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-northeast at 8 mph, gusting to 19 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 75° by 7 PM. Tonight falls to about 66° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Monday, near 84°, and the coolest Saturday, near 76°. Rain is possible Saturday (43%) and Wednesday (34%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 30 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 25% lit, and sets at 9:15 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 11 hours 25 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 PM in Catalina State Park, Arizona.
Air quality
Index 45, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Tucson (AZ), 11 miles off.
Highest 56, moderate, Fri Oct 16, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 11 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.13 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 6 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 11 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Catalina State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW4314GW4314
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/2,799 ft/159 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
TucsonAZMET-AZ01
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.3 mi away/2,343 ft/297 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/16.4 mi away/2,020 ft/620 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Tucson 11 W53131
At a climate reference station/18.1 mi away/2,733 ft/93 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Catalina State ParkCATA3
In a park or preserve/0.5 mi away/2,707 ft/67 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Oro Valley 1.1 ESEAZ-PM-69
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/2,713 ft/73 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.