Rainy Pass SnotelRAIW1
A snow pillow on a mountain/1.4 mi away/4,890 ft/1,192 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Washington/Heather Pass
Now. Heather Pass is 38° and mostly clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 56°, and the coolest Monday, near 44°. Rain is possible Saturday (47%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, 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 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 52 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Heather Pass, Washington.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Twisp (WA), 31 miles off.
Yesterday measured 33, 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 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 1 miles Sat 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Heather Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rainy Pass SnotelRAIW1
A snow pillow on a mountain/1.4 mi away/4,890 ft/1,192 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
WinthropS52
At an airfield/28.9 mi away/1,688 ft/4,394 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Darrington 21 NNE04223
At a climate reference station/31.1 mi away/407 ft/5,675 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Citizen station EW7146EW7146
In a volunteer observer's own ground/34.1 mi away/2,317 ft/3,765 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Stehekin 4NWSTEW1
At a cooperative observer's station/11.3 mi away/1,411 ft/4,671 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Winthrop 9.2 NWWA-OK-39
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.1 mi away/2,595 ft/3,487 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Stehekin 4NW (STEW1), 11.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 11:15. 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.