Pole Canyon RAWSPCNI1
A remote fire weather station/2.7 mi away/6,959 ft/197 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Idaho/Swaps Pass
Swaps Pass, Idaho
Mountain pass in Caribou County, Idaho, at 6,762 ft43°
62°/33°
Clear·
Feels like 38°·Light breeze 8 mph NE
Now. Swaps Pass is 43° and clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 24°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 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 59°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 54°. Rain is possible Tuesday (43%) and Wednesday (40%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
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 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
34Air quality
50%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
43feels38
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
6233
clear day
Fri
Oct 16
5835
clear day
Sat
Oct 17
5935
mostly clear day
Sun
Oct 18
5837
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5838
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
5442
43%
Wed
Oct 21
5442
40%
43°
62°33°
58°35°
59°35°
58°37°
58°38°
54°42°
54°42°
As of 10:00 PM in Swaps Pass, Idaho.
Air quality
The air at Swaps Pass
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Pocatello (ID), 31 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)34Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)14Good-
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.5 ppb21.3 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 19, good.
GoodModerate
- 19YesterdayOct 14
- 45TodayOct 15
- 45FriOct 16
- 45SatOct 17
- 45SunOct 18
- 45MonOct 19
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 50 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Swaps Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 1.15 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 1.15in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Swaps Pass, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 6,762 ft
- County
- Caribou County
- State
- Idaho
- Latitude
- 42.9366° N
- Longitude
- 111.8497° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Swaps Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
D5 - Blackfoot River BridgeITDE1
Beside a road/16.8 mi away/6,125 ft/637 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/37.8 mi away/4,478 ft/2,284 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW0495DW0495
In a volunteer observer's own ground/39.3 mi away/4,710 ft/2,052 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Inkom 5.5 NID-BK-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.8 mi away/5,462 ft/1,300 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Inkom 1NWIKMI1
At a cooperative observer's station/22.8 mi away/4,545 ft/2,217 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Inkom 1NW (IKMI1), 22.8 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Idaho
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Swaps Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Mountain passes near Swaps Pass
- Bennetts Pass11 mi
- Moses Pass12 mi
- Tenmile Pass13 mi
- Wilson Pass13 mi
- Tanner Pass14 mi
- Inman Pass15 mi
- Inkom Pass17 mi
- Windy Pass26 mi