Bigelow Camp SnotelBGCO3
A snow pillow on a mountain/3.5 mi away/5,130 ft/900 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve, Oregon
53°
69°/46°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 53°·Light breeze 4 mph E
Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees cooler: a high of 57° after 69° today.
Now. Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve is 53° and partly cloudy at 10 AM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms until about 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 61°, and the coolest Friday, near 50°. Rain is possible Sunday (34%). The first freeze could come Friday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing gibbous, 80% lit, and sets at 3:46 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 10 hours 51 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
1UV Low
38Air quality
71%Humidity
55%Cloud
Now
10:00 AM
53feels53
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 21
6946
mostly clear
Thu
Oct 22
27%
5744
partly cloudy
Fri
Oct 23
5031
clear
Sat
Oct 24
6130
mostly clear
Sun
Oct 25
34%
5737
partly cloudy
Mon
Oct 26
29%
5435
mostly clear
Tue
Oct 27
5534
mostly clear
As of 10:00 AM in Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve, Oregon.
Air quality
The air at Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve
Index 38, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 AM from its reporting area, Cave Junction (OR), 13 miles off.
38Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)38Good13.4 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 23, good.
GoodModerate
- 23YesterdayOct 20
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Fri 5 AM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve
None in the last 24 hours; 0.07 in over the last 3 days, to Wed 9 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.07in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Fri 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National Monument
- Area
- 7.07 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 4,230 ft
- County
- Josephine County
- State
- Oregon
- Latitude
- 42.1033° N
- Longitude
- 123.4036° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
US199 WB at Hayes Hill MP16.39ODT23
Beside a road/18.4 mi away/1,601 ft/2,629 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW6256CW6256
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.6 mi away/1,333 ft/2,897 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Grants Pass3S8
At an airfield/28.0 mi away/1,109 ft/3,121 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Williams 2.5 WSWOR-JS-33
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.6 mi away/1,663 ft/2,567 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RuchRUCO3
At a cooperative observer's station/20.0 mi away/1,562 ft/2,668 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Oregon
25 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Williamscommunity, 10 mi
- Takilmacommunity, 12 mi
- Cave Junctioncity, 13 mi
- Kerbycommunity, 14 mi
- O'Briencommunity, 15 mi
- Selmacommunity, 16 mi
- New Hopecommunity, 19 mi
- Ruchcommunity, 21 mi
- Redwoodcommunity, 22 mi
- Grants Passcity, 23 mi
- Foots Creekcommunity, 24 mi
- Rogue Rivercity, 26 mi