SR-18 at MP 35 Cottonwood Summit UT US UTAH DOTUTCSU
Beside a road/7.5 mi away/6,158 ft/875 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Central is 48° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northeast at 19 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 6 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 66°, and the coolest Thursday, near 54°. Rain is likely Tuesday (64%), Wednesday (68%) and Thursday (65%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:56 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:03 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Central, Utah.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Hurricane (UT), 24 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 34, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.33 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. 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 Central, UtahReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Central, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.5 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
SR-18 at MP 35 Cottonwood Summit UT US UTAH DOTUTCSU
Beside a road/7.5 mi away/6,158 ft/875 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Gardner Peak SnotelGAPU1
A snow pillow on a mountain/9.3 mi away/8,322 ft/3,039 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
EnterpriseS2128
At a soil climate station/14.7 mi away/5,250 ft/33 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station GW3585GW3585
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.7 mi away/3,096 ft/2,187 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Hurricane1L8
At an airfield/26.3 mi away/3,350 ft/1,933 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Dammeron Valley 0.9 WUT-WG-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.8 mi away/4,532 ft/751 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
EnterpriseEMRU1
At a cooperative observer's station/11.4 mi away/5,358 ft/75 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 26.3 mi from Central, Utah. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
62.6 F with a dew point of 39.2 F, 42 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,300 ft up.
At 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 40 mph.
The full report of Hurricane, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Enterprise (EMRU1), 11.4 miles from here, read 11 Oct, 18:00. measured daily
26 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.