Corral Canyon SnotelCOLN2
A snow pillow on a mountain/3.5 mi away/8,500 ft/1,252 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Nevada/Harrison Pass
Now. Harrison Pass is 37° and clear at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 31°. The dew point is 22°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 63° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 65°, and the coolest Friday, near 45°. Rain is likely Wednesday (60%), Thursday (71%) and Friday (51%). The first freeze could come Friday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:59 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11 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 5 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Harrison Pass, Nevada.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Elko (NV), 38 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 21, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 11 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Sat 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Harrison Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Corral Canyon SnotelCOLN2
A snow pillow on a mountain/3.5 mi away/8,500 ft/1,252 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
RubyS2229
At a soil climate station/26.6 mi away/6,000 ft/1,248 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.9 mi away/5,234 ft/2,014 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Jiggs 8 SseJIGN2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.9 mi away/5,847 ft/1,401 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Spring Creek 2.8 ESENV-EL-39
In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.4 mi away/5,742 ft/1,506 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.