Lone Pine SnotelLPSW1
A snow pillow on a mountain/1.2 mi away/3,930 ft/160 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Washington/Elk Pass
Coming up. Rain is likely Saturday morning, from about 6 AM (50%).
Now. Elk Pass is 47° and mostly clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 64°, and the coolest Monday, near 44°. Rain is likely Saturday (56%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 10 hours 58 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Elk Pass, Washington.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Yacolt (WA), 36 miles off.
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 2 miles Sat 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Elk Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Lone Pine SnotelLPSW1
A snow pillow on a mountain/1.2 mi away/3,930 ft/160 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
White PassTWHIT
Beside a road/36.5 mi away/4,478 ft/388 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW6868GW6868
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.6 mi away/541 ft/3,549 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Randle 1.4 EWA-LW-28
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.8 mi away/903 ft/3,187 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CougarSWWW1
At a cooperative observer's station/19.3 mi away/667 ft/3,423 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Cougar (SWWW1), 19.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 11:30. measured daily
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.