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A snow pillow on a mountain/7.1 mi away/7,980 ft/899 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Idaho/Basin-Elba Pass
Basin-Elba Pass, Idaho
Mountain pass in Cassia County, Idaho, at 7,081 ft34°
62°/30°
Clear·
Feels like 30°·Light breeze 4 mph E
Now. Basin-Elba Pass is 34° and clear at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 60° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 6 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 tomorrow, near 64°, and the coolest Thursday, near 50°. Rain is likely Thursday (53%). Rain is possible Wednesday (40%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:51 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:45 PM. 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 3 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
31Air quality
88%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
34feels30
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
6230
13mph
Sat
Oct 17
6435
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
6236
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
6036
12mph
Tue
Oct 20
5537
20%
Wed
Oct 21
5336
40%
Thu
Oct 22
5035
53%
34°
62°30°
64°35°
62°36°
60°36°
55°37°
53°36°
50°35°
As of 4:00 AM in Basin-Elba Pass, Idaho.
Air quality
The air at Basin-Elba Pass
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Twin Falls (ID), 44 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)31Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 26, good.
GoodModerate
- 26YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Basin-Elba Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.25 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.25in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Basin-Elba Pass, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 7,081 ft
- County
- Cassia County
- State
- Idaho
- Latitude
- 42.2446° N
- Longitude
- 113.7075° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Basin-Elba Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
D4 - Conner SummitITD45
Beside a road/12.0 mi away/5,666 ft/1,415 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/20.8 mi away/4,150 ft/2,931 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
OakleyOAKI1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.8 mi away/4,551 ft/2,530 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Burley 0.3 NID-CS-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.0 mi away/4,159 ft/2,922 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Idaho
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Basin-Elba Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Mountain passes near Basin-Elba Pass
- Stines Pass7 mi
- Lyman Pass12 mi
- Pinnacle Pass14 mi
- Granite Pass19 mi
- Daves Pass21 mi
- Beaverdam Pass23 mi
- Trout Creek Pass26 mi
- Deerhorn Pass27 mi