Sells RAWSQSEA3
A remote fire weather station/7.5 mi away/2,346 ft/290 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Chiawuli Tak until 2 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Chiawuli Tak is 71° and partly cloudy at 5 AM. The dew point is 46°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the east at 23 mph, gusting to 47 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 66° by 5 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 75): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 84°, and the coolest Thursday, near 76°. Rain is possible tomorrow (43%), Sunday (32%) and Monday (33%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:54 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:13 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 24 minutes long, 1 minute shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Chiawuli Tak, Arizona.
Air quality
Index 75, moderate, led by coarse particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Rillito (AZ), 49 miles off.
Highest 96, moderate, today, led by coarse particles. Yesterday measured 24, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Chiawuli Tak, ArizonaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Chiawuli Tak, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.5 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Sells RAWSQSEA3
A remote fire weather station/7.5 mi away/2,346 ft/290 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/37.8 mi away/2,418 ft/218 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Kitt PeakKITA3
At a cooperative observer's station/10.6 mi away/6,790 ft/4,154 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Tucson 27.4 SWAZ-PM-154
In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.6 mi away/3,109 ft/473 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 7.5 mi from Chiawuli Tak, Arizona. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:14 AM local time: 3 of its 5 sheets.
74.0 F with a dew point of 39.7 F, 29 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 7,800 ft up.
From the east (94 degrees) at 12 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
At 2,346 ft above sea level, 8 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 27.47 inHg and the temperature at 50.6 F; it reports 74.0 F, 23.4 F warmer than standard.
The full report of Sells RAWS, in 5 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.