Chetzemoka Park, Port Townsend looks west-southwest at the summit, 34 miles away. Measured on USGS 3DEP terrain, the summit stands 0.2° above the highest ridge on the line. The reading below comes from Port Townsend's weather stations.
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Reading the airports along the sightline.
The mountain is due south of Port Angeles, so you look at its north face, which is in shade most of the day. Near the summer solstice the sun rises at about 54° and sets at about 306°, far enough north to light the peaks at both ends of the day. Near the winter solstice it rises at 126° and sets at 234°, and only the tops catch color.
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The mountain is due south of Port Angeles, so you look at its north face, which is in shade most of the day. Near the summer solstice the sun rises at about 54° and sets at about 306°, far enough north to light the peaks at both ends of the day. Near the winter solstice it rises at 126° and sets at 234°, and only the tops catch color.
We read the cloud ceilings at the airports between Port Angeles and the summit, the cloud layers at the summit from the MET Norway model, and whether that cloud sits below 6,454 ft. No crowd reports.
Cloud forecasts get less reliable the further out they go. Days four and five are drawn in six-hour steps for that reason, and the forecast stops at five.
Different weather stations, different sky. The same morning can be fog in one and clear in the other, twenty miles apart. Each region page reads its own stations.
Wildfire smoke and haze can hide the mountain on a day the cloud numbers say clear. When the numbers are unsure, the page says so.
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