Gila River Below Coolidge Dam09469500
At a dam/10.2 mi away/2,311 ft/254 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Peridot until 11 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Peridot is 69° and clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east at 12 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 63° 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 Monday, near 81°, and the coolest Saturday, near 72°. Rain is likely Wednesday (54%). Rain is possible Saturday (32%) and Tuesday (42%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 28 mph.
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 11 hours 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Peridot, Arizona.
Air quality
Index 6, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Miami (AZ), 22 miles off.
Highest 52, moderate, Fri Oct 16, led by coarse particles. Yesterday measured 9, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.05 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 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 Peridot, ArizonaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Peridot, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.8 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Gila River Below Coolidge Dam09469500
At a dam/10.2 mi away/2,311 ft/254 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
US-60 @ MP-280.3: Timber CampAZT21
Beside a road/27.1 mi away/5,781 ft/3,216 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
San Carlos 3.7 NNWAZ-GL-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.8 mi away/2,814 ft/249 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
San Carlos ReservoirPRDA3
At a reservoir/9.3 mi away/2,532 ft/33 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 27.1 mi from Peridot, Arizona. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 8:33 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud reported; visibility 10 mi or more.
56.1 F with a dew point of 39.2 F, 53 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,800 ft up.
From the north northeast (27 degrees) at 11 mph, gusting 19 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 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.