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A remote fire weather station/13.6 mi away/4,829 ft/6 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Crescent Valley is 50° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 46°. The dew point is 23°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east-southeast at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 71° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 72°, and the coolest Friday, near 53°. Rain is likely Wednesday (60%) and Thursday (65%). Frost is possible Friday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:03 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:04 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 5 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Crescent Valley, Nevada.
Air quality
Index 44, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Elko (NV), 51 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 11, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 5 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Crescent Valley, NevadaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Crescent Valley, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 13.6 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Beacon Light RAWSBATN2
A remote fire weather station/13.6 mi away/4,829 ft/6 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/20.0 mi away/4,535 ft/288 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
On a farm or research station/24.2 mi away/5,148 ft/325 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Battle Mountain 2.0 WNWNV-LD-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.4 mi away/4,509 ft/314 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.0 mi from Crescent Valley, Nevada. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 12:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
41.0 F with a dew point of 23.0 F, 48 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,100 ft up.
From the south southeast (150 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Battle Mountain, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.