Beaver Spring SnotelBVRA3
A snow pillow on a mountain/9.0 mi away/9,200 ft/2,122 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Tsaile is 50° and clear at 11 AM. With the wind it feels like 47°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east-southeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 61°, and the coolest Sunday, near 56°. Rain is likely Wednesday (60%) and Thursday (74%). Rain is possible Monday (41%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:40 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 9:49 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 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 AM in Tsaile, Arizona.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, San Juan County (NM), 63 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 38, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 5 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.48 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 10 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Tsaile, ArizonaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 3 instruments nearest Tsaile, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now1 instrument
Beaver Spring SnotelBVRA3
A snow pillow on a mountain/9.0 mi away/9,200 ft/2,122 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Tsaile 0.5 WNWAZ-AP-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/7,027 ft/51 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Canyon De ChellyCHNA3
At a cooperative observer's station/20.7 mi away/5,545 ft/1,533 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 9.0 mi from Tsaile, Arizona. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 10:00 AM local time: 3 of its 3 sheets.
At 9,200 ft above sea level, 29 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 21.22 inHg and the temperature at 26.2 F; it reports 39.6 F, 13.4 F warmer than standard.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 45 degrees above the horizon at 36.33 N, and the day is 11 h 06 min long. Level ground there takes 70 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
A data collection platform, 9,200 ft above sea level. Its report of Oct 16, 2026, 10:00 AM local time is written on the sensors that made 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.