Stampede Pass SnotelSMPW1
A snow pillow on a mountain/5.0 mi away/3,850 ft/295 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Washington/Tacoma Pass
Coming up. Rain is likely Saturday morning, from about 6 AM (67%).
Now. Tacoma Pass is 48° and clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 43° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 63°, and the coolest Monday, near 48°. Rain is likely Saturday (68%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 32°.
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, 4 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Tacoma Pass, Washington.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Cascades of East King County (WA), 30 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 15, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Fog: visibility falls to 0.9 miles Sat 7 AM, under a mile for 1 hour.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Tacoma Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Stampede Pass SnotelSMPW1
A snow pillow on a mountain/5.0 mi away/3,850 ft/295 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/5.1 mi away/3,967 ft/412 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Stampede OverpassTPRIC
Beside a road/6.9 mi away/2,408 ft/1,147 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station DW8222DW8222
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.4 mi away/2,256 ft/1,299 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
EastonESTW1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.4 mi away/2,221 ft/1,334 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Cle Elum 7.6 WWA-KT-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.2 mi away/2,121 ft/1,434 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.