Temperature
62 F at 8 PM; 74 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 56 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
- Now
- 62F
- 8 PM
- Highest
- 74F
- 3 PM
- Lowest
- 56F
- 6 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/California/Blue Canyon Nyack Airport
Blue Canyon Nyack Airport, California
Small airport in Placer County, California...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PDT FRIDAY DUE TO WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA... * AFFECTED AREA...Portions of Sierra Nevada and adjacent Foothills. * TIMING...Until 10 AM PDT Friday. * WINDS...Northeast to east winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts 25 to 45 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...Daytime humidity 10 to 20% with single digits possible and very poor overnight recoveries. * IMPACTS...Any fires that develop will spread rapidly. Outdoor burning is not recommended.
Please advise the appropriate officials or fire crews in the field of this Red Flag Warning.
63°
74°/54°
Clear·
Feels like 63°·Gentle breeze 11 mph E
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Blue Canyon Nyack Airport until 10 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Blue Canyon Nyack Airport is 63° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 22°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east at 11 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 59° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 77°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 50°. Rain is possible Tuesday (47%) and Wednesday (36%).
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
36Air quality
20%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
63feels63
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
7454
16mph
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
7759
14mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7154
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6751
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
5747
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
5041
47%
Wed
Oct 21
5141
36%
63°
74°54°
77°59°
71°54°
67°51°
57°47°
50°41°
51°41°
As of 10:00 PM in Blue Canyon Nyack Airport, California.
Air quality
The air at Blue Canyon Nyack Airport
Index 36, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Colfax (CA), 18 miles off.
36Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)17Good17.5 mi
- Ozone36Good40 ppb17.5 mi
The days ahead
Highest 58, moderate, Fri Oct 16, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 42, good.
GoodModerate
- 42YesterdayOct 14
- 44TodayOct 15
- 58FriOct 16
- 51SatOct 17
- 47SunOct 18
- 42MonOct 19
- 40TueOct 20
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Blue Canyon Nyack Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Blue Canyon Nyack Airport, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- BLU
- ICAO
- KBLU
- IATA
- BLU
- Field elevation
- 5,284 ft
- Serves
- Emigrant Gap
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- BLU
- Wind now
- From 80° at 8 mph, read 15 Oct, 20:52
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 / 33 | 3,300 ft | 50 ft | Asphalt | 170° / 350° | 0 mph head, on 15 | 8 mph from the left |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Blue Canyon - Nyack (BLU), Blue Canyon Nyack Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 22 F, the air 21% saturated; the humidity ran from 12% at 3 PM to 32% at 11 PM Wednesday.
- Dew point now
- 22F
- 8 PM
- Humidity now
- 21%
- Humidity, range
- 12 to 32%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
10 mph from the east at 8 PM; at its strongest 12 mph, 8 AM, with a gust of 32 mph at 6 AM.
- Now
- 10mph
- from the east
- Strongest
- 12mph
- 8 AM
- Highest gust
- 32mph
- 6 AM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.36 inHg at 8 PM, steady over 3 hours; 0.04 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.36inHg
- 8 PM
- 3 hours
- -0.01inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- +0.04inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
10 miles or more every hour.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 10+mi
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Blue Canyon - Nyack: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Blue Canyon Nyack Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/5,285 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Blue Canyon AlertBLUC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.1 mi away/5,282 ft/2 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/0.7 mi away/5,312 ft/28 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Nevada City 16.4 ECA-NV-29
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/5,233 ft/51 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Gold Run 2SWGLRC1
At a cooperative observer's station/10.9 mi away/3,143 ft/2,141 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
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Near Blue Canyon Nyack Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Altacommunity, 6 mi
- Washingtoncommunity, 7 mi
- Dutch Flatcommunity, 8 mi
- Granitevillecommunity, 12 mi
- Kingvalecommunity, 15 mi
- Alleghanycommunity, 15 mi
- Nevada Citycity, 17 mi
- Soda Springscommunity, 18 mi
- Colfaxcity, 18 mi
- Grass Valleycity, 19 mi
- Pikecommunity, 19 mi
- Foresthillcommunity, 19 mi
Airports near Blue Canyon Nyack Airport
- Nevada County AirportGOO, 16 mi
- Auburn Municipal AirportAUN, 30 mi
- Truckee Tahoe AirportTRK, 31 mi
- Placerville AirportPVF, 38 mi
- Beale Air Force BaseBAB, 40 mi
- Lincoln Regional Karl Harder FieldLHM, 43 mi
- Lake Tahoe AirportTVL, 47 mi
- Yuba County AirportMYV, 48 mi