Hoodoo Butte weather - 2025 05/19 (Mon) 17:49 - Mobile page - Weather page - 6 hour - Pictures page
Current 48 Hour Trend over the last 48 hours
Temperature 38 °F
3 °C
(Mid-mountain: 40 °F)
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Snow depth 30.2"
77 cm
Snowfall since Oct 1st
281.5"
# In-range / Out-of-range
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Max 34.8"
Min 28.2"
1 Hr 0.0"
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Light Level

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Moon phase 		05:02
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Power rail 12.98 Volts
52.9 / 46.4
V_panel = 3.14 V / V_batt = 26.30 V / I_1 = -0.29 A / I_2 = 0.00 A
Created: 2025 05/19 17:50
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Hoodoo Butte is a 5700' (1737 m) volcanic cinder cone located on the crest of the Cascade Range in central Oregon.

On your map, it's about 2.5 miles southwest of Santiam Pass (Highway US 20, milepost 81), and about 1.5 miles west of the Pacific Crest Trail. For the GPS-inclined, that's about 44.402 N, 121.882 W (WGS84 datum).

Weather & related information:
Location Forecast Satellite Jet Stream Radar Lightning & sky Air quality Fire information Sea Surface Temps Earthquake
& Tsunami
Low Bandwidth Santiam Pass n/a CONUS
North America
c/o www.weatherstreet.com 		n/a North America
c/o www.lightningmaps.org 		Look outside Look outside Washington, Oregon Are things rocking?
Santiam Pass Santiam Pass
7-day / 14-day
Current map 		n/a n/a Portland weather radar -
Full area & near Santiam Pass 		Lightning
Dark sky map 		Sisters, OR
Camp Tamarack
Hoodoo Ski Area 		Oregon Smoke Information

ODF Wildfire News & Blog

Fire Aware, Fire ...
c/o OSU Extension Service
Oregon Flora - plants

n/a Washington

Oregon

N. California
Pacific NW Forecast zones GOES 17 "GeoColor"
static / loop 		Windy.com NWS - zoom on PNW
UofW - PNW radar 		Pacific NW Central Oregon
Sisters
Oregon DEQ 		NWCC Large fire map
AlertWildFire cameras
AlertWildFire - Smith Ridge 		Washington, Oregon Pacific NW
Western US Forecast zones GOES 17 "GeoColor"
static / loop
UofW - Vis, IR, WV 		n/a n/a Pacific SW n/a n/a California S. California
Continental US Forecast zones
Forecast
Wx Chart 		GOES-EAST static / loop
wunderground - IR 		Current:
CONUS
North America
Forecast:
North America 		CONUS Lightning
Dark Sky maps 		North America Inciweb - Incident info.
NFSA Tool - map		 North America
east of 145W 		CONUS
& Click on
"Nearby Places"
USGS
North Pacific n/a GOES 17 "GeoColor"
static / loop
UofW - Vis, IR enhanced 		North Pacific
(interactive) 		n/a n/a n/a n/a Alaska
Alaska-Hawaii
west of 135W 		N. Pacific
Hemisphere, World-wide Space Weather GOES-WEST Pacific
GOES-EAST Atlantic 		Forecast (interactive) n/a Lightning
Aurora Borealis 		Worldwide n/a Worldwide
Chart collection 		Earthquake
USGS
Tsunami
These are just examples of what's out there. Feel free to find (and suggest) your own favorite sites.

This is: http://www.santiampsp.org/wx/weather.htm
Related
Web
Pages: 		Multi-picture page (~670 Kbytes) w/ Top Hodag, NW view, 'Ed, Manzanita, Easy Rider, Headwall, Bowl, Parking Lot (center & south) and more (~20-70 Kbytes each)
Graphs of temperature & snow depth: 2024-25 & 23-24, 22-23, 21-22, 20-21, 19-20, 18-19, 17-18, 16-17, 15-16, 14-15, 13-14, 12-13, 11-12, 10-11, 09-10, 08-09, 07-08, 06-07, 05-06, 04-05, 03-04, 02-03, 01-02
Winter snow depth histories - ".CSV" file data which could look like this
"On this date" - How today compares to this date in previous years
About this page, this weather station, the pictures, and making your own weather station.
Short weather page, winter's summary (.CSV), 7 days of raw data, last 6 hours
Keeping it running: Manzanita battery performance, System Check
Like it? This page is brought to you courtesy of the Santiam Pass Ski Patrol and their web site. If you like what you see, let them know. If you don't like what you see, use the "Email them" feedback link given below to suggest an improvement. If you don't like the weather, we may not either, but that's a whole 'nother discussion . . .
Ideas? Most of the instruments and software used to generate these weather condition pages were provided by the Santiam Pass Ski Patrol.

The precipitation sensor data is provided by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), which maintains many "SNOTEL" sites from New Mexico to Alaska.

If you have ideas for improvements to this weather page, please Email them to "".
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Notes:
  • Other sources of information

  • 2015 08/15 - Weather Underground "local" map of current conditions
  • 2019 11/10 - Uploading raw weather data for today, one day ago, and two days ago. Tab-separated data columns, so you can "Open With" a spreadsheet program.
    - Files are uploaded shortly after the hours of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  • 2019 12/21 - Moon phase (%) is good, but the code for computing moon rise & set times never seemed to work, so try web pages like this one.
  • 2020 03/14 - Snow depth raw data, to investigate correlation to times & events.
  • 2020 03/14 - Not just weather, but an interesting map that has weather information embedded in it.
  • 2022 03/11 - Link to a new 12 hour summary file, to allow COAC ( Central Oregon Avalanche Center) to add Hoodoo Butte weather information to their map. The file is a ".CSV" type, which at least one browser keeps trying to open as a ".XLS" type. Other browsers have opened the CSV files just fine.
  • 2024 05/17 - Added a wind-related link "History" to a separate web page that shows wind direction and speed for a series of time bins. (Located in the "Wind" row, under the 6 & 48 hour "summary" column. It contains information similar to a "Wind Rose", but it's built from HTML. The duration and number of time bins are defined in a configuration file, so they are easily changed.
  • 2025 01/25 - Additional notes about spikes on the air quality graph: The sensor is in a structure which also houses snowmobiles. When those machines come and go their exhaust lingers in the structure for several minutes. The sensor is also downwind from the maintenance shops when there is an east wind. Idling or passing trucks or over-the-snow machines may be detected as well. And probably barbecues in the parking lot . . .
  • 2025 03/15 - About those "sensor offline" notes: This also happens when the sensor readings cannot be downloaded (from top of mountain to computer in lodge). We have a damaged cable that allows electrical noise to interfere with communication, and one or more noise sources come and go, interrupting communication for hours on end. The cause is yet unknown, so the defense remains elusive (aside of digging a trench and laying a new cable). Good news: the datalogger can store over a day's worth of data, and if communication works it can download all of the data. No data loss, just delayed access.
  • 2025 03/30 9AM - Replaced weather computer's power supply.
  • 2025 03/30 - And now if the datalogger connection can restore itself things will return to normal. The dead power supply was just a diversion while troubleshooting the data communication issue. Serial data loop to top of mountain measures way more than the expected 190 Ohms, so the "stake driven through the cable" issue remains a come-and-go sort of problem. The "fix" is a Summer-time job.
    • To: Hoodoo Ski Area's main page