Rainy Pass SnotelRAIW1
A snow pillow on a mountain/3.6 mi away/4,890 ft/2,041 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Washington/Last Chance Pass
Now. Last Chance Pass is 34° and mostly clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 21°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 29° by 4 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 54°, and the coolest Saturday, near 42°. Rain is likely Saturday (55%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
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 Last Chance Pass, Washington.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Darrington (WA), 30 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 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 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Last Chance Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rainy Pass SnotelRAIW1
A snow pillow on a mountain/3.6 mi away/4,890 ft/2,041 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Darrington 21 NNE04223
At a climate reference station/29.0 mi away/407 ft/6,524 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
WinthropS52
At an airfield/30.8 mi away/1,688 ft/5,243 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW7146EW7146
In a volunteer observer's own ground/36.0 mi away/2,317 ft/4,614 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Stehekin 4NWSTEW1
At a cooperative observer's station/11.1 mi away/1,411 ft/5,520 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Winthrop 9.2 NWWA-OK-39
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.3 mi away/2,595 ft/4,336 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Stehekin 4NW (STEW1), 11.1 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.