Swamp Creek SnotelSWSW1
A snow pillow on a mountain/14.2 mi away/3,930 ft/2,335 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Washington/Windy Pass
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 44° after 54° today.
Now. Windy Pass is 33° and clear at 5 AM. The dew point is 19°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 48°, and the coolest Sunday, near 43°. Rain is possible tomorrow (40%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 24°.
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 5:00 AM in Windy Pass, Washington.
Air quality
Index 40, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Twisp (WA), 39 miles off.
Yesterday measured 30, good.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 142, unhealthy for sensitive groups, Fri 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Dense fog: visibility falls to 0.1 miles Sat 6 AM, under a mile for 4 hours.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Windy Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 14.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Swamp Creek SnotelSWSW1
A snow pillow on a mountain/14.2 mi away/3,930 ft/2,335 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
WinthropS52
At an airfield/35.2 mi away/1,688 ft/4,577 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Darrington 21 NNE04223
At a climate reference station/37.0 mi away/407 ft/5,858 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ross Rsvr NrRODW1
At a reservoir/16.4 mi away/1,572 ft/4,693 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Winthrop 9.2 NWWA-OK-39
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.7 mi away/2,595 ft/3,670 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Ross Rsvr Nr (RODW1), 16.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. 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.