Blackwater SnotelBLWW4
A snow pillow on a mountain/9.2 mi away/9,780 ft/949 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Wyoming/Rampart Pass
Now. Rampart Pass is 26° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 21°. The dew point is 14°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 24° by 7 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 Saturday, near 49°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 43°. Rain is possible Wednesday (30%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 24°.
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 south-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 11 hours 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Rampart Pass, Wyoming.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Yellowstone National Park (MT), 35 miles off.
Yesterday measured 32, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Rampart Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Blackwater SnotelBLWW4
A snow pillow on a mountain/9.2 mi away/9,780 ft/949 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/35.1 mi away/7,769 ft/2,960 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Wind River LakeWY43
Beside a road/36.1 mi away/9,576 ft/1,153 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
At a cooperative observer's station/18.4 mi away/6,955 ft/3,774 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Cody 22.2 WWY-PK-61
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.6 mi away/5,739 ft/4,990 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at YNP East Entrance - COOP (EYPW4), 18.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.