D5 - TopazITD11
Beside a road/3.8 mi away/4,990 ft/75 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Lava Hot Springs is 43° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the north-northeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° by 8 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 63°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 58°. Rain is possible Tuesday (44%) and Wednesday (40%).
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 27% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho.
Air quality
Index 39, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Pocatello (ID), 28 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 19, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.20 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lava Hot Springs, IdahoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Lava Hot Springs, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
D5 - TopazITD11
Beside a road/3.8 mi away/4,990 ft/75 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Sedgwick Peak SnotelSEPI1
A snow pillow on a mountain/7.1 mi away/7,850 ft/2,785 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/35.7 mi away/4,478 ft/587 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lava Hot SpringsLKSI1
At a cooperative observer's station/0.5 mi away/5,066 ft/1 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Lava Hot Springs 1.9 WSWID-BK-31
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/5,046 ft/19 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 35.7 mi from Lava Hot Springs, Idaho. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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Snow on the ground
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.