I-70 at SalinaUTSLA
Beside a road/7.7 mi away/5,220 ft/60 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Salina until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Salina is 44° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east-northeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 70° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° 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 75°, and the coolest Thursday, near 62°. Rain is likely Tuesday (54%) and Thursday (74%). Rain is possible Wednesday (45%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:48 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:50 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Salina, Utah.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Price (UT), 73 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 38, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
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 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Salina, UtahReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Salina, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.7 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
I-70 at SalinaUTSLA
Beside a road/7.7 mi away/5,220 ft/60 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Lost CreekLSCU1
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.9 mi away/7,461 ft/2,301 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
RichfieldRIF
At an airfield/20.1 mi away/5,285 ft/125 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
EphraimS2126
At a soil climate station/32.2 mi away/5,531 ft/371 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station CW3996CW3996
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.0 mi away/5,138 ft/22 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Richfield Radio KsvcRIFU1
At a cooperative observer's station/17.8 mi away/5,289 ft/129 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Richfield 0.8 SWUT-SV-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.8 mi away/5,380 ft/220 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.1 mi from Salina, Utah. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.4 F with a dew point of 28.4 F, 49 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 north northeast (20 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Richfield, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
26 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.