At an airfield/3.9 mi away/7,011 ft/99 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Mountainaire until 6 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Mountainaire is 46° and clear at 8 PM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northeast at 14 mph, gusting to 35 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 59°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 54°. Rain is likely Tuesday (51%) and Wednesday (70%). Rain is possible Saturday (47%), Sunday (43%) and Monday (38%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:09 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 PM in Mountainaire, Arizona.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Flagstaff (AZ), 7 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
Smoke near the ground peaks at index 129, unhealthy for sensitive groups, Sat 4 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.50 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Mountainaire, ArizonaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Mountainaire, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/3.9 mi away/7,011 ft/99 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
A remote fire weather station/4.2 mi away/7,014 ft/102 ft above here
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Citizen station FW4034FW4034
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.0 mi away/7,049 ft/137 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/8.8 mi away/7,278 ft/366 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Flagstaff 7.2 SAZ-CN-81
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/6,926 ft/14 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Flagstaff 4 SWFLSA3
At a cooperative observer's station/6.6 mi away/7,110 ft/198 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.9 mi from Mountainaire, Arizona. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 7:57 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.0 F with a dew point of 36.0 F, 68 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,300 ft up.
From the northeast (50 degrees) at 18 mph, gusting 35 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 49 mph.
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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.