D5 - Big CanyonITDD8
Beside a road/7.1 mi away/4,885 ft/240 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Rockland is 40° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 62° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° 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 65°, and the coolest Thursday, near 55°. Rain is possible Tuesday (33%), Wednesday (42%) and Thursday (44%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:40 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Rockland, Idaho.
Air quality
Index 43, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Pocatello (ID), 31 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; 0.13 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. 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 Rockland, IdahoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Rockland, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
D5 - Big CanyonITDD8
Beside a road/7.1 mi away/4,885 ft/240 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Snake River 1 SW American Falls ReservoirAFRI1
At a reservoir/14.2 mi away/4,350 ft/295 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/27.2 mi away/4,478 ft/167 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Massacre Rocks State ParkMASI1
In a park or preserve/9.0 mi away/4,206 ft/439 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Rockland 11.1 SSEID-PW-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.1 mi away/4,995 ft/350 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 27.2 mi from Rockland, Idaho. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
38.0 F with a dew point of 32.0 F, 79 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up.
From the northeast (40 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
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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.