Temperature
70 F at 10 PM Friday; 93 F at its warmest, 3 PM Friday, and 55 F at its coolest, 7 AM Friday.
- Now
- 70F
- 10 PM Friday
- Highest
- 93F
- 3 PM Friday
- Lowest
- 55F
- 7 AM Friday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/California/Reid-Hillview Airport of Santa Clara County
Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees cooler: a high of 80° after 92° today.
Now. Reid-Hillview Airport of Santa Clara County is 65° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 90° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 56° by 8 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 80°, and the coolest Monday, near 67°. Rain is possible Tuesday (45%) and Wednesday (43%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:36 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 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Reid-Hillview Airport of Santa Clara County, California.
Air quality
Index 37, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, San Lorenzo Valley (CA), 22 miles off.
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 25, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 11 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Sat 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 11 PM, lowest 9 miles Sun 11 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13L / 31R | 3,100 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 141° / 321° | - | - |
| 13R / 31L unlit | 3,099 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 145° / 325° | - | - |
Measured here
Every hour from San Jose/Reid/Hillv (RHV), Reid-Hillview Airport of Santa Clara County's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
70 F at 10 PM Friday; 93 F at its warmest, 3 PM Friday, and 55 F at its coolest, 7 AM Friday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 45 F, the air 40% saturated; the humidity ran from 15% at 3 PM Friday to 62% at 7 AM Friday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
3 mph from the west southwest at 7 PM Friday; at its strongest 9 mph, 3 PM Friday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.07 inHg at 10 PM Friday, rising 0.03 inHg over 3 hours; 0.02 inHg lower than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
10 miles or more every hour.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
San Jose/Reid/Hillv: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Reid-Hillview Airport of Santa Clara County, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/135 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
San Jose RAWSRJSC1
A remote fire weather station/4.6 mi away/863 ft/728 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-580 - Hansen RoadCF138
Beside a road/30.8 mi away/255 ft/120 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
San Jose 1.2 NCA-SC-66
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/117 ft/18 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mount HamiltonMHAC1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.7 mi away/3,764 ft/3,629 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.