Beside a road/15.3 mi away/5,488 ft/2,835 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Sandy Valley until 11 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Sandy Valley is 68° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northeast at 18 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 80° by 5 PM. Tonight falls to about 65° 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 80°, and the coolest Thursday, near 67°. Rain is likely Tuesday (53%) and Wednesday (57%). Rain is possible Thursday (36%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:06 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:17 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Sandy Valley, Nevada.
Air quality
Index 33, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Jean (NV), 17 miles off.
Yesterday measured 38, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Sandy Valley, NevadaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Sandy Valley, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Beside a road/15.3 mi away/5,488 ft/2,835 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain Spring RAWSMTSN2
A remote fire weather station/15.8 mi away/5,466 ft/2,813 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Lovell SummitS2146
At a soil climate station/23.4 mi away/6,582 ft/3,929 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
HendersonHND
At an airfield/30.6 mi away/2,437 ft/216 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW4394DW4394
In a volunteer observer's own ground/33.8 mi away/2,584 ft/69 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sandy Valley 3.1 ESENV-CK-109
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.3 mi away/2,646 ft/7 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Spring Mtn Rnch Red Rock Canyon S.P.RRCN2
At a cooperative observer's station/19.7 mi away/3,760 ft/1,107 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 30.6 mi from Sandy Valley, Nevada. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:56 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
66.0 F with a dew point of 39.0 F, 37 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 6,100 ft up.
From the northeast (40 degrees) at 12 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 20 mph.
The full report of Henderson, 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.