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A snow pillow on a mountain/3.9 mi away/7,000 ft/457 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Nevada/Porcupine Pass
Porcupine Pass, Nevada
Mountain pass in Elko County, Nevada, at 6,543 ft37°
68°/30°
Clear·
Feels like 32°·Light breeze 6 mph E
Now. Porcupine Pass is 37° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 17°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 67° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 67°, and the coolest Thursday, near 49°. Rain is possible Tuesday (37%), Wednesday (41%) and Thursday (45%). The first freeze could come Wednesday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:02 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 9:57 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.
0UV Low
7Air quality
47%Humidity
4%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
37feels32
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
6830
14mph
Sat
Oct 17
6736
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
6534
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
6436
13mph
Tue
Oct 20
5435
37%
Wed
Oct 21
5131
41%
Thu
Oct 22
4930
45%
37°
68°30°
67°36°
65°34°
64°36°
54°35°
51°31°
49°30°
As of 12:00 AM in Porcupine Pass, Nevada.
Air quality
The air at Porcupine Pass
Index 7, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Elko (NV), 68 miles off.
7Good
- Coarse particles (PM10)7Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 11, good.
GoodModerate
- 11YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Porcupine Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Porcupine Pass, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 6,543 ft
- County
- Elko County
- State
- Nevada
- Latitude
- 41.7777° N
- Longitude
- 116.1509° W
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Porcupine Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.9 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Owyhee10U
At an airfield/12.3 mi away/5,371 ft/1,172 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Owyhee 1.3 SSWNV-EL-33
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.7 mi away/5,402 ft/1,141 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
JarbidgeJRGN2
At a cooperative observer's station/37.7 mi away/6,195 ft/348 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 Jarbidge (JRGN2), 37.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:30. measured daily
Elsewhere in Nevada
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Battle MountaintownCarson CitycityDiamond Peakski areaElkocityElycityFalloncityGreat Basin National ParkfeatureHendersoncityIncline VillagetownLas VegascityLaughlintownLee Canyonski areaLovelockcityMount Roseski areaPahrumptownRenocityRuby MountainsfeatureSparkscitySpring MountainsfeatureTonopahtownWest WendovertownWinnemuccacity
Near Porcupine Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Mountain Citycommunity, 10 mi
- Owyheecommunity, 13 mi
- Osinocommunity, 63 mi
- Elkocity, 68 mi
- Carlincity, 73 mi
- Paradise Valleycommunity, 74 mi
- Wellscity, 77 mi
- Spring Creekcommunity, 77 mi
- Jackpotcommunity, 78 mi
- Fort McDermittcommunity, 78 mi
- Lamoillecommunity, 80 mi
- McDermittcommunity, 82 mi
Mountain passes near Porcupine Pass
- Cornwall Pass26 mi
- Coal Mine Pass49 mi
- Antelope Pass59 mi
- Mahogany Pass59 mi
- Emigrant Pass78 mi
- Agort Pass78 mi
- Humboldt Pass79 mi
- Soldiers Pass81 mi