Mckenzie SnotelMKZO3
A snow pillow on a mountain/4.6 mi away/4,770 ft/448 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Oregon/McKenzie Pass
McKenzie Pass, Oregon
Mountain pass in Deschutes County, Oregon, at 5,218 ft70°
73°/30°
Clear·
Feels like 70°·Light breeze 4 mph SSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 60° after 73° today.
Now. McKenzie Pass is 70° and clear at 3 PM. The dew point is 17°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 33° 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 tomorrow, near 60°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 26°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:10 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 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
3UV Moderate
22Air quality
13%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
3:00 PM
70feels70
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
7330
mostly clear day
Sat
Oct 17
6033
partly cloudy day
Sun
Oct 18
5726
partly cloudy day
Mon
Oct 19
5327
12%
Tue
Oct 20
5124
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
5724
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
5427
17%
70°
73°30°
60°33°
57°26°
53°27°
51°24°
57°24°
54°27°
As of 3:00 PM in McKenzie Pass, Oregon.
Air quality
The air at McKenzie Pass
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 PM from its reporting area, Sisters (OR), 13 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)22Good12.8 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 16, good.
GoodModerate
- 16YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 11 AM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at McKenzie Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 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 McKenzie Pass, the next 45 hours
Fog: visibility falls to 0.7 miles Sat 8 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 5,218 ft
- County
- Deschutes County
- State
- Oregon
- Latitude
- 44.2598° N
- Longitude
- 121.8098° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest McKenzie Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
US20 EB at Santiam Pass MP80OD110
Beside a road/11.4 mi away/4,790 ft/428 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW7261CW7261
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.4 mi away/3,827 ft/1,391 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
SunriverS21
At an airfield/31.9 mi away/4,157 ft/1,061 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Belknap Springs 8NBELO3
At a cooperative observer's station/11.5 mi away/2,156 ft/3,062 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Sisters 1.4 WNWOR-DS-42
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.8 mi away/3,230 ft/1,988 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Oregon
25 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Anthony Lakesski areaAstoriacityBaker CitycityBendcityCrater LakefeatureEugenecityGovernment CamptownHoodooski areaKlamath FallscityLa GrandecityMedfordcityMount Bachelorsurveyed ski areaMount HoodfeatureMt Ashlandski areaMt Hood Meadowsski areaMt Hood Skibowlski areaMt. Hood Meadowssurveyed ski areaPendletoncityPortlandcitySalemcitySantiam PassfeatureSisterscityTimberline Lodgesurveyed ski areaWallowa MountainsfeatureWillamette Passski area
Near McKenzie Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Black Butte Ranchcommunity, 10 mi
- Hoodooski area, 10 mi
- Santiam Passfeature, 12 mi
- Sisterscity, 13 mi
- Camp Shermancommunity, 14 mi
- Mount Bachelorsurveyed ski area, 20 mi
- Tumalocommunity, 25 mi
- Eagle Crestcommunity, 26 mi
- Seventh Mountaincommunity, 27 mi
- Tetherowcommunity, 27 mi
- Bendcity, 28 mi
- Crooked River Ranchcommunity, 29 mi
Mountain passes near McKenzie Pass
- Scott Pass3 mi
- Opie Dilldock Pass5 mi
- Santiam Pass10 mi
- Minto Pass18 mi
- Tombstone Pass19 mi
- Bear Pass23 mi
- Biddle Pass29 mi
- Red Heifer Pass33 mi