At an airfield/7.2 mi away/4,150 ft/8 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Now. Rupert is 45° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-northeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 34° by 6 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 week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 68°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 56°. Rain is possible Wednesday (38%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% 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 Rupert, Idaho.
Air quality
Index 5, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Twin Falls (ID), 40 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 21, 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; 0.06 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 7 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Rupert, IdahoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Rupert, 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 now3 instruments
At an airfield/7.2 mi away/4,150 ft/8 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Snake River 12 E Minidoka Dam and Lake Walcott nr Rupert USBORMINI1
At a dam/9.7 mi away/4,157 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
D4 - Raft RiverITD88
Beside a road/12.3 mi away/4,511 ft/353 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Rupert 0.7 NNEID-MN-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/4,158 ft/level with here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Minidoka DamMDDI1
At a dam/9.7 mi away/4,167 ft/9 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.2 mi from Rupert, Idaho. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.0 F with a dew point of 34.0 F, 68 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,300 ft up.
From the south (190 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 18 mph.
The full report of Burley Municipal, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.