A snow pillow on a mountain/4.7 mi away/8,870 ft/1,397 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Utah/Elizabeth Pass
Now. Elizabeth Pass is 47° and clear at 12 PM. The dew point is 16°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the north-northwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 26° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. 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 56°, and the coolest Thursday, near 43°. Rain is likely Tuesday (57%) and Thursday (69%). Rain is possible Wednesday (37%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 26°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:38 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 7 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 PM in Elizabeth Pass, Utah.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Whiterocks (UT), 50 miles off.
Yesterday measured 36, good.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 250, very unhealthy, Sat 1 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.04 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 3 miles or more through Sun 6 AM, lowest 3 miles Sat 1 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Elizabeth Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
A snow pillow on a mountain/4.7 mi away/8,870 ft/1,397 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
SR-150 at Bald Mountain PassUTBMP
Beside a road/21.1 mi away/10,715 ft/448 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Buffalo JumpS2151
At a soil climate station/39.2 mi away/6,682 ft/3,585 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Oakley 0.9 SWUT-SM-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/36.5 mi away/6,430 ft/3,837 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
HannaHANU1
At a cooperative observer's station/37.2 mi away/6,739 ft/3,528 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
26 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.