Swamp Creek SnotelSWSW1
A snow pillow on a mountain/20.5 mi away/3,930 ft/3,474 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Washington/Shellrock Pass
Now. Shellrock Pass is 31° and clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 27°. The dew point is 20°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 28° by 2 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 49°, and the coolest Monday, near 38°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
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 Shellrock Pass, Washington.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Twisp (WA), 36 miles off.
Yesterday measured 33, good.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 127, unhealthy for sensitive groups, Fri 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Sat 7 AM, under a mile for 6 hours.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Shellrock Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 14.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Swamp Creek SnotelSWSW1
A snow pillow on a mountain/20.5 mi away/3,930 ft/3,474 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
WinthropS52
At an airfield/32.1 mi away/1,688 ft/5,716 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW7146EW7146
In a volunteer observer's own ground/36.8 mi away/2,317 ft/5,087 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
MazamaMZAW1
At a cooperative observer's station/14.9 mi away/2,208 ft/5,196 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Winthrop 9.2 NWWA-OK-39
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.7 mi away/2,595 ft/4,809 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.