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Mount Rainier from Seward Park · 53 mi · live

Is Mount Rainier visible from Seward Park right now?

Seward Park looks south-southeast at the summit, 53 miles away. Measured on USGS 3DEP terrain, the summit stands 0.8° above the highest ridge on the line. The reading below comes from the Eastside's weather stations.

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Right now · from the Eastside · Pacific time
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Reading the airports along the sightline.

This spot

Best lightSunrise
Lookingsouth-southeast, 53 mi
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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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Sunset spots put the mountain in front of you with the light behind you; sunrise spots want the water in front.

Questions

How do we know if Mount Rainier is visible?

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.

Why only five days?

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.

Why does the Eastside get a different answer than Seattle?

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

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.

Observations from NOAA aviation weather. Forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0). Times are Pacific time. Terrain from USGS 3DEP.
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