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Denali · the record

How often is Denali visible from Talkeetna?

Every day gets its best daylight reading from Talkeetna: out, partly, or hidden. The table is the count so far. It grows by one row a day and starts thin.

The app

Mountain Visibility

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.

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By month

Reading the record…

How this is counted

The live page reads the airport cloud ceilings between Talkeetna and the summit every fifteen minutes. A day's entry is the best of those daylight readings, so one clear hour counts the day as out. Nights are ignored. Smoke and haze count against it the same way they do on the live page.

Three-day forecast and the light

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.

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By region

Mountain Visibility

Mount 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.

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Questions

How do we know if Denali is visible?

We read the cloud ceilings at the airports between Talkeetna and the summit, the cloud layers at the summit from the MET Norway model, and whether that cloud sits below 20,310 ft. No crowd reports.

Why only three days?

Cloud forecasts are not reliable past about three days, so the forecast stops there.

Why does Wasilla get a different answer than Talkeetna?

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.

What it can get wrong

Airport instruments only measure cloud to about 12,000 ft. Everything above that, on a 20,310 ft mountain, comes from the forecast model. 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.

The record starts the day the Worker for this mountain went live. Percentages from a few days are noise, and the page says so.