Dry Creek SnotelDRKN2
A snow pillow on a mountain/1.5 mi away/6,500 ft/248 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Nevada/Humboldt Pass
Now. Humboldt Pass is 42° and clear at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 35° 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 63°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 50°. Rain is likely Tuesday (50%) and Wednesday (52%). 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Humboldt Pass, Nevada.
Air quality
Index 8, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Elko (NV), 27 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 11, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.18 in over 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 Humboldt Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Dry Creek SnotelDRKN2
A snow pillow on a mountain/1.5 mi away/6,500 ft/248 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
RubyS2229
At a soil climate station/15.0 mi away/6,000 ft/252 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station DW6485DW6485
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.1 mi away/5,234 ft/1,018 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Arthur 4NWARTN2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.3 mi away/6,253 ft/1 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Elko 15.4 NENV-EL-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.0 mi away/5,220 ft/1,032 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.