Swamp Creek SnotelSWSW1
A snow pillow on a mountain/17.1 mi away/3,930 ft/2,572 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Washington/Silver Pass
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 43° after 53° today.
Now. Silver Pass is 32° and mostly clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 20°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 8 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 47°, and the coolest Sunday, near 42°. Rain is possible tomorrow (35%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 23°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:11 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 9:42 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 2:00 AM in Silver Pass, Washington.
Air quality
Index 36, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Twisp (WA), 39 miles off.
Yesterday measured 30, good.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 156, unhealthy, Fri 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Sat 7 AM, under a mile for 4 hours.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Silver Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 16.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Swamp Creek SnotelSWSW1
A snow pillow on a mountain/17.1 mi away/3,930 ft/2,572 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
WinthropS52
At an airfield/35.3 mi away/1,688 ft/4,814 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Darrington 21 NNE04223
At a climate reference station/39.9 mi away/407 ft/6,095 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
MazamaMZAW1
At a cooperative observer's station/16.9 mi away/2,208 ft/4,294 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Winthrop 9.2 NWWA-OK-39
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.8 mi away/2,595 ft/3,907 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.