First ButteFBFW1
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.5 mi away/5,102 ft/451 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Washington/Banker Pass
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 50° after 58° today.
Now. Banker Pass is 49° and mostly cloudy at 11 AM. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south-southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° by 12 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 51): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 53°, and the coolest Sunday, near 47°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:10 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 9:41 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 day is 10 hours 48 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 AM in Banker Pass, Washington.
Air quality
Index 51, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Twisp (WA), 21 miles off.
Yesterday measured 30, good.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 358, hazardous, Fri 3 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Fri 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Banker Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
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At a river or reservoir gauge/10.5 mi away/5,102 ft/451 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
WinthropS52
At an airfield/16.8 mi away/1,688 ft/2,963 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW7146EW7146
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.6 mi away/2,317 ft/2,334 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Loup LoupTLOUP
Beside a road/26.7 mi away/4,003 ft/648 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Winthrop 9.2 NWWA-OK-39
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/2,595 ft/2,056 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MazamaMZAW1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.0 mi away/2,208 ft/2,443 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.