Snake River 12 E Minidoka Dam and Lake Walcott nr Rupert USBORMINI1
At a dam/5.6 mi away/4,157 ft/125 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Minidoka, Idaho
City in Minidoka County, Idaho41°
65°/35°
Clear·
Feels like 37°·Light breeze 5 mph NE
Now. Minidoka is 41° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° 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 tomorrow, near 68°, and the coolest Thursday, near 55°. Rain is possible Wednesday (39%) and Thursday (39%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:42 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 3 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
30Air quality
85%Humidity
6%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
41feels37
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
6535
clear day
Sat
Oct 17
6836
mostly clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6436
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6638
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
5940
28%
Wed
Oct 21
5638
39%
Thu
Oct 22
5537
39%
41°
65°35°
68°36°
64°36°
66°38°
59°40°
56°38°
55°37°
As of 1:00 AM in Minidoka, Idaho.
Air quality
The air at Minidoka
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Craters of the Moon National Monument (ID), 49 miles off.
30Good
- Ozone30Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 28, good.
GoodModerate
- 28YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Minidoka
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Minidoka, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 9 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Minidoka, IdahoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Minidoka, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rank280of 833
D4 - Raft RiverITD88
Beside a road/12.4 mi away/4,511 ft/229 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/20.5 mi away/4,150 ft/132 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Minidoka DamMDDI1
At a dam/5.4 mi away/4,167 ft/115 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Rupert 8.5 NNWID-MN-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.5 mi away/4,268 ft/14 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The weather at Burley Municipal, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.5 mi from Minidoka, Idaho. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
38.0 F with a dew point of 34.0 F, 85 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up.
The wind
Calm.
The full report of Burley Municipal, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Idaho
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Minidoka
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.