Tipton SnotelTIPO3
A snow pillow on a mountain/6.1 mi away/5,150 ft/1,045 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Bates State Park is 43° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 23°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 36° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 69°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Wednesday, a low of 32°.
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 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Bates State Park, Oregon.
Air quality
Index 46, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, John Day (OR), 25 miles off.
Yesterday measured 44, 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 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Bates State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Tipton SnotelTIPO3
A snow pillow on a mountain/6.1 mi away/5,150 ft/1,045 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/18.3 mi away/4,003 ft/102 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
John DayGCD
At an airfield/25.9 mi away/3,697 ft/408 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW4189EW4189
In a volunteer observer's own ground/37.9 mi away/3,332 ft/773 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Prairie City 0.2 NEOR-GR-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.1 mi away/3,596 ft/509 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
John DayJDRO3
At a cooperative observer's station/25.1 mi away/3,100 ft/1,005 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
25 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.