Mccracken MesaS2140
At a soil climate station/7.3 mi away/5,315 ft/14 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Now. White Mesa is 49° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 44° 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 Wednesday, near 64°, and the coolest Sunday, near 59°. Rain is likely Wednesday (69%) and Thursday (90%).
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 35% lit, and sets at 10:46 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in White Mesa, Utah.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Four Corners Area (CO), 47 miles off.
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 27, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.77 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over White Mesa, UtahReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest White Mesa, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Mccracken MesaS2140
At a soil climate station/7.3 mi away/5,315 ft/14 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Mccracken Mesa ScanRACU1
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.3 mi away/5,319 ft/18 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
BlandingBDG
At an airfield/8.0 mi away/5,821 ft/520 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
UT-191 @ MonticelloUTMCO
Beside a road/20.3 mi away/7,257 ft/1,956 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Blanding 0.3 WSWUT-SJ-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.9 mi away/6,111 ft/810 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
MonticelloBLFU1
At a cooperative observer's station/13.8 mi away/4,341 ft/960 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.0 mi from White Mesa, Utah. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 10:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.4 F with a dew point of 40.3 F, 85 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
The full report of Blanding, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Monticello (BLFU1), 13.8 miles from here, read 15 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.