Temperature
70 F at 1 AM; 84 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 65 F at its coolest, 4 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 70F
- 1 AM
- Highest
- 84F
- 4 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 65F
- 4 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/California/Nevada County Airport
Nevada County Airport, California
Small airport in Nevada 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.
67°
85°/64°
Clear·
Feels like 67°·Light breeze 6 mph E
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Nevada County Airport until 10 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Nevada County Airport is 67° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 20°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 82° by 12 PM. Tonight falls to about 58° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 81°, and the coolest Thursday, near 61°. Rain is possible Tuesday (33%) and Wednesday (31%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:27 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
37Air quality
15%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
67feels67
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8564
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
8157
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
7757
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
6551
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
6247
33%
Wed
Oct 21
6348
31%
Thu
Oct 22
6146
28%
67°
85°64°
81°57°
77°57°
65°51°
62°47°
63°48°
61°46°
As of 1:00 AM in Nevada County Airport, California.
Air quality
The air at Nevada County Airport
Index 37, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Western Nevada County (CA), 3 miles off.
37Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-8.6 mi
- Ozone37Good29 ppb8.6 mi
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Nevada County Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. 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 Nevada County Airport, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- GOO
- ICAO
- KGOO
- IATA
- -
- Field elevation
- 3,152 ft
- Serves
- Grass Valley
- Kind
- Small airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- GOO
- Wind now
- Variable at 6 mph, read 16 Oct, 01:35
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 / 25 | 4,657 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 87° / 267° | - | - |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Grass Valley (GOO), Nevada County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 19 F, the air 15% saturated; the humidity ran from 10% at 6 PM Thursday to 23% at 2 AM Thursday.
- Dew point now
- 19F
- 1 AM
- Humidity now
- 15%
- Humidity, range
- 10 to 23%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
7 mph from the east northeast at 1 AM; at its strongest 13 mph, 6 AM Thursday, with a gust of 22 mph at 6 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 7mph
- from the east northeast
- Strongest
- 13mph
- 6 AM Thursday
- Highest gust
- 22mph
- 6 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.24 inHg at 1 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.24inHg
- 1 AM
- 3 hours
- +0.02inHg
- steady
- 24 hours
- +0.02inHg
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
Grass Valley: 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 Nevada County 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
Grass ValleyGOO
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/3,115 ft/37 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Grass ValleyGSVC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.7 mi away/2,421 ft/731 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/16.6 mi away/5,312 ft/2,160 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Nevada City 1.8 SSECA-NV-39
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/3,147 ft/5 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Nevada CityNVDC1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.6 mi away/2,851 ft/301 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in California
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Nevada County Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Nevada Citycity, 3 mi
- Grass Valleycity, 3 mi
- Alta Sierracommunity, 7 mi
- Rough and Readycommunity, 7 mi
- Dutch Flatcommunity, 9 mi
- Colfaxcity, 9 mi
- Penn Valleycommunity, 10 mi
- Lake Wildwoodcommunity, 10 mi
- Altacommunity, 11 mi
- North San Juancommunity, 11 mi
- Lake of the Pinescommunity, 13 mi
- Pikecommunity, 14 mi
Airports near Nevada County Airport
- Blue Canyon Nyack AirportBLU, 16 mi
- Auburn Municipal AirportAUN, 19 mi
- Beale Air Force BaseBAB, 24 mi
- Lincoln Regional Karl Harder FieldLHM, 29 mi
- Yuba County AirportMYV, 32 mi
- Placerville AirportPVF, 37 mi
- Oroville Municipal AirportOVE, 38 mi
- McClellan AirfieldMCC, 44 mi