Swamp Creek SnotelSWSW1
A snow pillow on a mountain/4.2 mi away/3,930 ft/2,057 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Washington/Mesahchie Pass
Coming up. Rain is likely tomorrow morning, from about 6 AM (52%).
Now. Mesahchie Pass is 34° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 22°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 5 mph, gusting to 15 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 8 AM, with some cloud.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 48°, and the coolest Monday, near 43°. Rain is likely tomorrow (55%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 23°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:12 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 9:44 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.
As of 12:00 AM in Mesahchie Pass, Washington.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Darrington (WA), 34 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 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Fog: visibility falls to 0.3 miles Sat 9 AM, under a mile for 3 hours.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Mesahchie Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Swamp Creek SnotelSWSW1
A snow pillow on a mountain/4.2 mi away/3,930 ft/2,057 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Darrington 21 NNE04223
At a climate reference station/26.6 mi away/407 ft/5,580 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
WinthropS52
At an airfield/35.0 mi away/1,688 ft/4,299 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ross DamROSW1
At a dam/13.0 mi away/1,302 ft/4,685 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Winthrop 9.2 NWWA-OK-39
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.6 mi away/2,595 ft/3,392 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Ross Dam (ROSW1), 13.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. 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.