Fern Ridge Dam Met Station Near Elmira440721123182200
At a dam/4.6 mi away/420 ft/41 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Cheshire is 61° and clear at 8 PM. The dew point is 50°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-southeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 47° by 7 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 79°, and the coolest Monday, near 59°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:20 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 PM in Cheshire, Oregon.
Air quality
Index 35, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Eugene and Springfield (OR), 15 miles off.
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 29, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sat 5 PM, lowest 7 miles Sat 10 AM.
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On the radar over Cheshire, OregonReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Cheshire, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Fern Ridge Dam Met Station Near Elmira440721123182200
At a dam/4.6 mi away/420 ft/41 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW9977EW9977
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.9 mi away/350 ft/111 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/5.6 mi away/374 ft/87 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
OR126 at Central Rd WB MP49.69OD193
Beside a road/9.3 mi away/381 ft/80 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Corvallis 10 SSW04236
At a climate reference station/15.5 mi away/312 ft/149 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Cheshire 2.1 WSWOR-LA-159
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/361 ft/100 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Fern Ridge-VenetaFRIO3
At a cooperative observer's station/10.4 mi away/384 ft/77 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.6 mi from Cheshire, Oregon. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 7:54 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
59.0 F with a dew point of 50.0 F, 72 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up.
From the south (170 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 21 mph.
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Snow on the ground
25 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.