Rock Candy MountainTCAND
Beside a road/2.0 mi away/551 ft/647 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/Washington/Porter Pass
Coming up. Rain is likely Saturday night, from about 12 AM (52%).
Now. Porter Pass is 50° and clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 48°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-northeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 70°, and the coolest Monday, near 55°. Rain is likely tomorrow (52%). Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
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 56 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Porter Pass, Washington.
Air quality
Index 9, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater (WA), 15 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, 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 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 5 PM, lowest 5 miles Sat 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Porter Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rock Candy MountainTCAND
Beside a road/2.0 mi away/551 ft/647 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW8782FW8782
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.6 mi away/198 ft/1,000 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.5 mi away/729 ft/469 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
OlympiaOLM
At an airfield/11.4 mi away/200 ft/998 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Olympia 13.5 WNWWA-TH-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/377 ft/821 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ElmaELAW1
At a cooperative observer's station/12.6 mi away/98 ft/1,100 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
23 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.