Thunder Basin SnotelTHBW1
A snow pillow on a mountain/2.4 mi away/4,320 ft/1,799 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Washington/Park Creek Pass
Coming up. Rain is likely Saturday morning, from about 6 AM (88%).
Now. Park Creek Pass is 36° and clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 22°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east-northeast at 8 mph, gusting to 18 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 58°, and the coolest Saturday, near 42°. Rain is likely Saturday (93%). Rain is possible tomorrow (40%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
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 52 minutes long, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Park Creek Pass, Washington.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Darrington (WA), 26 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 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Fog: visibility falls to 0.3 miles Sat 6 AM, under a mile for 2 hours.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Park Creek Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Thunder Basin SnotelTHBW1
A snow pillow on a mountain/2.4 mi away/4,320 ft/1,799 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Darrington 21 NNE04223
At a climate reference station/22.0 mi away/407 ft/5,712 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
WinthropS52
At an airfield/37.8 mi away/1,688 ft/4,431 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Stehekin 4NWSTEW1
At a cooperative observer's station/14.9 mi away/1,411 ft/4,708 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Marblemount 2.1 NEWA-SG-31
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.6 mi away/351 ft/5,768 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Stehekin 4NW (STEW1), 14.9 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.