A snow pillow on a mountain/1.9 mi away/8,582 ft/1,916 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/California/Van Sickle Bi-State Park
Van Sickle Bi-State Park, California
State Park in El Dorado County, California* WHAT...East winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph and waves 2 to 3 feet for Lake Tahoe. * WHERE...Greater Lake Tahoe Area. * WHEN...From 7 PM Thursday to 2 AM PDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Gusty winds and rough waves on area lakes will create hazardous conditions for small craft.
Check lake conditions before heading out and be prepared for a sudden increase in winds and wave heights. Consider postponing boating activities on the lake until a day with less wind.
48°
66°/35°
Clear·
Feels like 44°·Gentle breeze 8 mph NE
Alert. A Lake Wind Advisory is in force for Van Sickle Bi-State Park until 2 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Van Sickle Bi-State Park is 48° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 24°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 67°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 46°. Rain is likely Tuesday (62%). Rain is possible Wednesday (47%). The first freeze could come Tuesday, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 27% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
6Air quality
32%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
48feels44
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
6635
14mph
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
6635
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6738
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6437
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
5936
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
4831
62%
Wed
Oct 21
4628
47%
48°
66°35°
66°35°
67°38°
64°37°
59°36°
48°31°
46°28°
As of 11:00 PM in Van Sickle Bi-State Park, California.
Air quality
The air at Van Sickle Bi-State Park
Index 6, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, South Lake Tahoe (CA), 5 miles off.
6Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-16.4 mi
- Ozone-11 ppb16.4 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 6, good.
GoodModerate
- 6YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Van Sickle Bi-State Park
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 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 Van Sickle Bi-State Park, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 0.72 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 6,666 ft
- County
- El Dorado County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 38.9468° N
- Longitude
- 119.9357° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Van Sickle Bi-State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/4.9 mi away/6,263 ft/403 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW3758EW3758
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.6 mi away/6,279 ft/387 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/10.5 mi away/7,382 ft/716 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
South Lake Tahoe 1.4 ESECA-ED-35
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/6,298 ft/368 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Tahoma CaTAAC1
At a cooperative observer's station/13.0 mi away/6,315 ft/351 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Tahoma Ca (TAAC1), 13.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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