Lahar Viewpoint looks north-northeast at the summit, 50 miles away. The reading below comes from Paradise's weather stations.
Mount Rainier, Mount Hood, Mount Baker, Mount St. Helens, Denali, The Olympics, Mount Angeles and Mount Baldy. Visible now or not, the five-day forecast, and the sunrise and sunset light. $1.99, one time.
Reading the airports along the sightline.
Sunset spots put the mountain in front of you with the light behind you; sunrise spots want the water in front.
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Is Mount Rainier out right now?
Sunset spots put the mountain in front of you with the light behind you; sunrise spots want the water in front.
We read the cloud ceilings at the airports between Seattle and the summit, the cloud layers at the summit from the MET Norway model, and whether that cloud sits below 14,410 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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