Mount Rainier - White RiverWRRW1
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.9 mi away/3,967 ft/4,174 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/Washington/Mount Rainier National Park
Coming up. Rain is likely Saturday morning, from about 6 AM (64%).
Now. Mount Rainier National Park is 37° and mostly clear at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 15°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east-northeast at 11 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight holds near 37°, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 53°, and the coolest Monday, near 31°. Rain is likely Saturday (68%). The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 28°.
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 10 hours 56 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Cascades of East King County (WA), 22 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 15, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 5 PM, lowest 5 miles Sat 9 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Mount Rainier National Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Mount Rainier - White RiverWRRW1
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.9 mi away/3,967 ft/4,174 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
White PassTWHIT
Beside a road/21.5 mi away/4,478 ft/3,663 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW1022GW1022
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.6 mi away/778 ft/7,363 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
PuyallupPLU
At an airfield/32.1 mi away/538 ft/7,603 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Rainier Paradise Ranger STNASFW1
At a cooperative observer's station/5.4 mi away/5,436 ft/2,705 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Wilkeson 0.2 NWWA-PR-84
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.6 mi away/785 ft/7,356 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.