D6 - Pine Creek PassITDE6
Beside a road/9.7 mi away/6,778 ft/1,084 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/Idaho/Blacktail Pass
Now. Blacktail Pass is 33° and clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 29° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 55°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 49°. Rain is possible Tuesday (42%) and Wednesday (41%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Blacktail Pass, Idaho.
Air quality
Index 12, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Idaho Falls (ID), 32 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 15, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.22 in over 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 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Blacktail Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
D6 - Pine Creek PassITDE6
Beside a road/9.7 mi away/6,778 ft/1,084 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
A snow pillow on a mountain/10.0 mi away/6,720 ft/1,142 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
DriggsDIJ
At an airfield/15.0 mi away/6,227 ft/1,635 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW5938GW5938
In a volunteer observer's own ground/30.6 mi away/4,779 ft/3,083 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Victor 3.1 NID-TT-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.6 mi away/6,095 ft/1,767 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
DriggsDRGI1
At a cooperative observer's station/14.1 mi away/6,115 ft/1,747 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.