Walnut Gulch #1 ScanWGHA3
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.0 mi away/4,500 ft/837 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
High Wind Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A High Wind Warning is in force for St. David until 5 AM tomorrow. 2 more alerts are in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. St. David is 62° and partly cloudy at 5 AM. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the east-southeast at 31 mph, gusting to 51 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 70° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 55° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is unhealthy (index 184): everyone should cut back on long or hard exertion outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 72°. Rain is possible tomorrow (37%), Sunday (35%), Monday (46%), Tuesday (30%) and Wednesday (39%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 31 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:47 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:07 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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in St. David, Arizona.
Air quality
Index 184, unhealthy, led by coarse particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Tucson (AZ), 47 miles off.
Highest 56, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 45, 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 St. David, ArizonaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest St. David, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Walnut Gulch #1 ScanWGHA3
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.0 mi away/4,500 ft/837 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Walnut Gulch #1S2026
At a soil climate station/15.0 mi away/4,500 ft/837 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station DW9697DW9697
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.1 mi away/4,554 ft/891 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/22.6 mi away/4,718 ft/1,055 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Elgin 5 S53132
At a climate reference station/26.9 mi away/4,811 ft/1,148 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
St. David 0.6 SWAZ-CH-73
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/3,654 ft/9 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Benson 6 SESDAA3
At a cooperative observer's station/1.7 mi away/3,690 ft/27 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 22.6 mi from St. David, Arizona. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 5:19 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 8 mi.
59.0 F with a dew point of 33.8 F, 39 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,700 ft up.
From the southeast (130 degrees) at 14 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 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.