At an airfield/7.6 mi away/6,263 ft/1,721 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mountain passes/Nevada/Axehandle Pass
Now. Axehandle Pass is 35° and clear at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 26°. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northeast at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 25° by 5 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 tomorrow, near 61°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 46°. Rain is likely Tuesday (71%) and Wednesday (63%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 24°.
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 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Axehandle Pass, Nevada.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Great Basin National Park (NV), 39 miles off.
Yesterday measured 40, 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 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Axehandle Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/7.6 mi away/6,263 ft/1,721 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Bird Creek SnotelBIRN2
A snow pillow on a mountain/8.0 mi away/7,500 ft/484 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Baker 5 W53138
At a climate reference station/38.9 mi away/6,617 ft/1,367 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
McgillMCGN2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.8 mi away/6,247 ft/1,737 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Ely 3.9 NENV-WP-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.3 mi away/6,259 ft/1,725 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Mcgill (MCGN2), 2.8 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.