Horse Meadow SnotelHORC1
A snow pillow on a mountain/1.4 mi away/8,557 ft/162 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Armstrong Pass
Armstrong Pass, California
Mountain pass in Alpine County, California, at 8,719 ft39°
63°/27°
Clear·
Feels like 35°·Light breeze 5 mph ENE
Now. Armstrong Pass is 39° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 19°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-northeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 61° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 5 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 sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 64°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 43°. Rain is likely Tuesday (59%) and Wednesday (56%). Rain is possible Thursday (41%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:20 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:24 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
9Air quality
52%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
39feels35
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
6327
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6431
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6030
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
5629
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
4725
59%
Wed
Oct 21
4322
56%
Thu
Oct 22
4421
41%
39°
63°27°
64°31°
60°30°
56°29°
47°25°
43°22°
44°21°
As of 2:00 AM in Armstrong Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Armstrong Pass
Index 9, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, South Lake Tahoe (CA), 8 miles off.
9Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-23.1 mi
- Ozone-17 ppb23.1 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)9Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 9, good.
GoodModerate
- 9YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Armstrong Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 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 Armstrong Pass, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 11 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 8,719 ft
- County
- Alpine County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 38.8324° N
- Longitude
- 119.9124° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Armstrong Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station EW3758EW3758
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.9 mi away/6,279 ft/2,440 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/6.2 mi away/6,263 ft/2,456 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/6.5 mi away/7,382 ft/1,337 ft below 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/7.2 mi away/6,298 ft/2,421 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Tahoma CaTAAC1
At a cooperative observer's station/19.6 mi away/6,315 ft/2,404 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), 19.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in California
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Big Bear Mountainski areaBishopcityBridgeporttownChina Peakski areaDodge Ridgeski areaDonner PassfeatureFresnocityHeavenlysurveyed ski areaHomewoodski areaJune Mountainski areaKirkwoodsurveyed ski areaLos AngelescityMammoth LakestownMammoth Mountainsurveyed ski areaMount ShastafeatureMount Shasta CitycityMount Shasta Ski Parkski areaMount WhitneyfeatureMountain Highski areaNorthstarsurveyed ski areaPalisades Tahoesurveyed ski areaReddingcitySacramentocitySan DiegocitySan FranciscocitySierra NevadafeatureSierra-at-Tahoeski areaSnow Valleyski areaSouth Lake TahoecitySugar Bowlski areaSusanvillecityTruckeetownYosemitefeature
Near Armstrong Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Meyerscommunity, 6 mi
- Mesa Vistacommunity, 6 mi
- Alpine Villagecommunity, 7 mi
- Heavenlysurveyed ski area, 7 mi
- South Lake Tahoecity, 8 mi
- Sierra-at-Tahoeski area, 9 mi
- Markleevillecommunity, 12 mi
- Kirkwoodcommunity, 13 mi
- Kirkwoodsurveyed ski area, 13 mi
- Tahomacommunity, 20 mi
- Homewoodski area, 22 mi
- Snow Valleyski area, 24 mi
Mountain passes near Armstrong Pass
- Luther Pass4 mi
- Johnson Pass6 mi
- Carson Pass10 mi
- Dicks Pass13 mi
- Mosquito Pass14 mi
- Phipps Pass15 mi
- Rockbound Pass16 mi
- Monitor Pass19 mi