Sheep Creek Meteorological Station near Dayton445117107225901
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.1 mi away/7,130 ft/3,190 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 67° after 58° today.
Now. Dayton is 34° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 21°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 31° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 79°, and the coolest Sunday, near 65°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
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 south-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 1 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Dayton, Wyoming.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Sheridan (WY), 15 miles off.
Yesterday measured 31, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.08 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 Dayton, WyomingReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Dayton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Sheep Creek Meteorological Station near Dayton445117107225901
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.1 mi away/7,130 ft/3,190 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/8.9 mi away/4,320 ft/380 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW7283CW7283
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.5 mi away/3,856 ft/84 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/16.0 mi away/3,967 ft/27 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
DaytonDYTW4
At a cooperative observer's station/0.2 mi away/3,940 ft/level with here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Dayton 0.4 ESE (Closed)WY-SH-40
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/4,014 ft/74 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.0 mi from Dayton, Wyoming. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
33.0 F with a dew point of 21.0 F, 61 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,700 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of Sheridan Co. Arpt, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Dayton (DYTW4), 0.2 miles from here, read 12 Oct, 05:00. measured daily
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.