Beside a road/13.4 mi away/5,488 ft/1,048 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/Nevada/Columbia Pass
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Columbia Pass until 11 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Columbia Pass is 63° and clear at 9 AM. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northeast at 16 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 71° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 69°, and the coolest Thursday, near 57°. Rain is likely Tuesday (58%), Wednesday (62%) and Thursday (51%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:05 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:16 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 AM in Columbia Pass, Nevada.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 AM from its reporting area, Jean (NV), 7 miles off.
Yesterday measured 38, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 5 AM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 8 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Columbia Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Beside a road/13.4 mi away/5,488 ft/1,048 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain Spring RAWSMTSN2
A remote fire weather station/14.5 mi away/5,466 ft/1,026 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
HendersonHND
At an airfield/21.9 mi away/2,437 ft/2,003 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lovell SummitS2146
At a soil climate station/24.8 mi away/6,582 ft/2,142 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station DW4394DW4394
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.1 mi away/2,584 ft/1,856 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sandy Valley 3.1 ESENV-CK-109
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/2,646 ft/1,794 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Spring Mtn Rnch Red Rock Canyon S.P.RRCN2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.0 mi away/3,760 ft/680 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.