Swamp Creek SnotelSWSW1
A snow pillow on a mountain/13.6 mi away/3,930 ft/2,630 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Washington/Buffalo Pass
Buffalo Pass, Washington
Mountain pass in Okanogan County, Washington, at 6,560 ft43°
53°/30°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 43°·Light air 2 mph S
Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees cooler: a high of 42° after 53° today.
Now. Buffalo Pass is 43° and mostly clear at 11 AM. The dew point is 22°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 2 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 47°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 42°. Rain is possible tomorrow (43%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 23°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:11 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 9:42 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
2UV Low
51Air quality
43%Humidity
16%Cloud
Now
11:00 AM
43feels43
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
5330
mostly clear day
Sat
Oct 17
4233
43%
Sun
Oct 18
4223
partly cloudy day
Mon
Oct 19
4226
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
4425
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
4725
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
4329
19%
43°
53°30°
42°33°
42°23°
42°26°
44°25°
47°25°
43°29°
As of 11:00 AM in Buffalo Pass, Washington.
Air quality
The air at Buffalo Pass
Index 51, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Twisp (WA), 38 miles off.
51Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)51Moderate-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 30, good.
GoodModerate
- 30YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 167, unhealthy, Fri 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Buffalo Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 10 AM. 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 Buffalo Pass, the next 43 hours
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0 miles Sat 5 AM, under a mile for 5 hours.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 6,560 ft
- County
- Okanogan County
- State
- Washington
- Latitude
- 48.7612° N
- Longitude
- 120.7020° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Buffalo Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 13.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
WinthropS52
At an airfield/34.4 mi away/1,688 ft/4,872 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Darrington 21 NNE04223
At a climate reference station/37.0 mi away/407 ft/6,153 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Citizen station EW7146EW7146
In a volunteer observer's own ground/39.7 mi away/2,317 ft/4,243 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
MazamaMZAW1
At a cooperative observer's station/15.8 mi away/2,208 ft/4,352 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Winthrop 9.2 NWWA-OK-39
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.9 mi away/2,595 ft/3,965 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 Washington
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
BellinghamcityBluewoodski areaCrystal Mountainsurveyed ski areaEverettcityLeavenworthcityLoup Loupski areaMount RainierfeatureMt. Bakersurveyed ski areaNorth Cascades National ParkfeatureOlympiacityOlympic MountainsfeaturePuget SoundfeatureSeattlecitySnoqualmie PassfeatureSpokanecityStevens PassfeatureStevens Passsurveyed ski areaTacomacityThe Summit at Snoqualmiesurveyed ski areaWenatcheecityWhite Passski areaWinthroptownYakimacity
Near Buffalo Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Winthroptown, 31 mi
- North Cascades National Parkfeature, 32 mi
- Marblemountcommunity, 37 mi
- Twisptown, 38 mi
- Mt. Bakersurveyed ski area, 44 mi
- Rockportcommunity, 45 mi
- Conconullytown, 46 mi
- Loomiscommunity, 49 mi
- Loup Loupski area, 50 mi
- Concretetown, 51 mi
- Methowcommunity, 54 mi
- Darringtontown, 54 mi
Mountain passes near Buffalo Pass
- Windy Passunder 1 mi
- Foggy Pass2 mi
- Slate Pass2 mi
- Jim Pass3 mi
- Robinson Pass3 mi
- Harts Pass3 mi
- Silver Pass4 mi
- Cady Pass4 mi