Oxford Spring SnotelOXSI1
A snow pillow on a mountain/8.0 mi away/6,740 ft/2,187 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Malad City is 47° and clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 66° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 5 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 70°, and the coolest Thursday, near 62°. Rain is likely Thursday (53%). Rain is possible Tuesday (36%) and Wednesday (30%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:46 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:39 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Malad City, Idaho.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Logan (UT), 38 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 26, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.12 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Malad City, IdahoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Malad City, 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 now2 instruments
Oxford Spring SnotelOXSI1
A snow pillow on a mountain/8.0 mi away/6,740 ft/2,187 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
D5 - Malad SummitITD24
Beside a road/10.6 mi away/5,564 ft/1,011 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Malad City 0.1 ESEID-ON-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/4,553 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
DowneyDWYI1
At a cooperative observer's station/17.4 mi away/4,862 ft/309 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest instrument reporting now, 8.0 mi from Malad City, Idaho. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:00 AM local time: 3 of its 3 sheets.
At 6,740 ft above sea level, 22 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 23.32 inHg and the temperature at 35.0 F; it reports 44.6 F, 9.6 F warmer than standard.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 39 degrees above the horizon at 42.26 N, and the day is 10 h 53 min long. Level ground there takes 62 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
A data collection platform, 6,740 ft above sea level. Its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:00 AM local time is written on the sensors that made it.
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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.