Vancouver Waterfront looks east-southeast at the summit, 69 miles (111 km) away. Measured on USGS 3DEP terrain, the summit stands 0.5° above the highest ridge on the line. The reading below comes from Vancouver, BC's weather stations.
Mount Rainier, Mount Hood, Mount Baker, Mount St. Helens, Denali, The Olympics and Mount Angeles. Visible now or not, the three-day forecast, and the sunrise and sunset light. $1.99, one time.
Reading the airports along the sightline.
Baker sits ESE of Vancouver, BC (bearing about 120°), so sunset is the safer bet year-round. The sun sets well behind you and lights the west face. Sunrise works most of the year too, but near the winter solstice the sun comes up only about 6° off the summit bearing, almost directly behind the peak, so you are looking into the glare instead of the color. That glare window is winter here, not the equinoxes.
The clear windows in the next three days, and the sunrise and sunset light on the summit, are in the app. $1.99, one time.
Get the app, $1.99Mount Rainier, Mount Hood, Mount Baker, Mount St. Helens, Denali, The Olympics, Mount Angeles in one app. Shows whether the mountain is visible from where you are, the clear windows in the next three days, and the viewpoints. Made for photographers and anyone driving to a viewpoint. $1.99, one time. No account, no ads.
Baker sits ESE of Vancouver, BC (bearing about 120°), so sunset is the safer bet year-round. The sun sets well behind you and lights the west face. Sunrise works most of the year too, but near the winter solstice the sun comes up only about 6° off the summit bearing, almost directly behind the peak, so you are looking into the glare instead of the color. That glare window is winter here, not the equinoxes.
We read the cloud ceilings at the airports between Vancouver, BC and the summit, the cloud layers at the summit from the MET Norway model, and whether that cloud sits below 10,781 ft. No crowd reports.
Cloud forecasts are not reliable past about three days, so the forecast stops there.
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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