Kethikan 2NW - Minerva MtKMWA2
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.5 mi away/505 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Gale Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Gale Warning is in force for Refuge beach until 5 PM today. 3 more alerts are in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Rain is likely early this morning, from about 3 AM (93%).
Now. Refuge beach is 54° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 53°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the south-southeast at 23 mph, gusting to 53 mph.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 47° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° by 4 AM, under cloud.
The week. Highs stay close to 49° all week. Rain is likely tomorrow (98%), Sunday (100%), Tuesday (94%), Wednesday (98%) and Thursday (96%). Rain is possible Monday (45%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:45 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 8:39 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 10 hours 27 minutes long, 5 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Refuge beach, Alaska.
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Now, today, and the week
Facing NNW 346°
From above: the edge, the break, the view
The 6 instruments nearest Refuge beach, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Kethikan 2NW - Minerva MtKMWA2
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.5 mi away/505 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Ketchikan INTL Arpt (ASOS)PAKT
At an airfield/10.7 mi away/95 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW5586GW5586
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.8 mi away/210 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Metlakatla 6 S25381
At a climate reference station/33.1 mi away/105 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ketchikan 13NKTAA2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.4 mi away/327 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Ketchikan 3.3 WNWAK-KG-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.2 mi away/57 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Ketchikan 13N (KTAA2), 5.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 16:00. measured daily
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.