Rees Flat SnotelREFU1
A snow pillow on a mountain/4.8 mi away/7,211 ft/1,570 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Wales until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Wales is 38° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 66° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. 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 69°, and the coolest Thursday, near 57°. Rain is likely Tuesday (59%), Wednesday (52%) and Thursday (69%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:46 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:47 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Wales, Utah.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Price (UT), 47 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 11, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.14 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 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 Wales, UtahReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Wales, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.9 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rees Flat SnotelREFU1
A snow pillow on a mountain/4.8 mi away/7,211 ft/1,570 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
EphraimS2126
At a soil climate station/8.6 mi away/5,531 ft/110 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Manti41U
At an airfield/10.7 mi away/5,509 ft/132 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US-89 at MP 254 South MantiUTSOM
Beside a road/16.7 mi away/5,597 ft/44 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
In a volunteer observer's own ground/36.4 mi away/5,424 ft/217 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
MoroniMRNU1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.9 mi away/5,584 ft/57 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Mount Pleasant 0.2 NNEUT-SP-2
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.6 mi away/5,940 ft/299 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.7 mi from Wales, Utah. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
38.3 F with a dew point of 32.0 F, 78 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,400 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of Manti, 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.