At a river or reservoir gauge/16.2 mi away/2,205 ft/120 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/Washington/Steptoe
Steptoe, Washington
Community in Whitman County, Washington47°
71°/36°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 45°·Light breeze 5 mph E
Now. Steptoe is 47° and mostly clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 39° by 6 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 72°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. 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 10 hours 56 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
34Air quality
65%Humidity
18%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
47feels45
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 15
7136
clear day
Fri
Oct 16
7239
mostly clear day
Sat
Oct 17
6443
partly cloudy day
Sun
Oct 18
6135
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6038
overcast
Tue
Oct 20
5737
partly cloudy day
Wed
Oct 21
5934
mostly clear day
47°
71°36°
72°39°
64°43°
61°35°
60°38°
57°37°
59°34°
As of 9:00 PM in Steptoe, Washington.
Air quality
The air at Steptoe
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Rosalia (WA), 15 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)34Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 29, good.
GoodModerate
- 29YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 39 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Steptoe
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Steptoe, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Steptoe, WashingtonReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Steptoe, 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 now6 instruments
Rank186of 1,451
SR 26 DustyTDSTY
Beside a road/19.6 mi away/1,690 ft/635 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Cook Farm Field DS2198
At a soil climate station/20.2 mi away/2,727 ft/402 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station DW6220DW6220
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.5 mi away/2,552 ft/227 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/21.6 mi away/2,552 ft/227 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Spokane 17 SSW04136
At a climate reference station/28.9 mi away/2,267 ft/58 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Thornton 0.3 SEWA-WM-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.7 mi away/2,322 ft/3 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RosaliaRSLW1
At a cooperative observer's station/15.6 mi away/2,411 ft/86 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Pullman/Moscow Rgnl, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 21.6 mi from Steptoe, Washington. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 7:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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