Cedar Grove RAWSCGVC1
A remote fire weather station/6.0 mi away/4,767 ft/5,258 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Avalanche Pass
Avalanche Pass, California
Mountain pass in Fresno County, California, at 10,025 ft* AFFECTED AREA...Fire weather zone 592 Central Sierra.Fire weather zone 593 North Kings River.Fire weather zone 594 Sequoia Kings.Fire weather zone 595 Lake Isabella. * WIND...STRONG NORTHEAST WINDS EXPECTED. A 70 TO 90 PERCENT PROBABILITY OF GUSTS EXCEEDING 40 MPH ON THURSDAY. A 40 TO 60 PERCENT PROBABILITY OF GUSTS EXCEEDING 40 MPH ON FRIDAY. * HUMIDITY...MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY BETWEEN 15-25 PERCENT BOTH DAYS. * THUNDERSTORMS...NO THUNDERSTORM THREAT. * HIGHEST THREAT...IS LOCATED FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE 4,000 UP TO THE CREST OF THE SIERRA NEVADA. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED.
A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures can contribute to extreme fire behavior.
43°
62°/34°
Clear·
Feels like 37°·Gentle breeze 11 mph E
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Avalanche Pass until 10 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Avalanche Pass is 43° and clear at 8 PM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 14°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east at 11 mph, gusting to 26 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 tomorrow, near 62°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 38°. Rain is likely Tuesday (60%) and Wednesday (69%). The first freeze could come Monday, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:32 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 17 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
48Air quality
30%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
8:00 PM
43feels37
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
6234
12mph
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
6235
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5934
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
5734
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
5332
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
4227
60%
Wed
Oct 21
3823
69%
43°
62°34°
62°35°
59°34°
57°34°
53°32°
42°27°
38°23°
As of 8:00 PM in Avalanche Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Avalanche Pass
Index 48, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (CA), 23 miles off.
48Good
- Ozone48Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 47, good.
GoodModerate
- 47YesterdayOct 14
- 44TodayOct 15
- 46FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Avalanche Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 7 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 Avalanche Pass, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 10,025 ft
- County
- Fresno County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 36.7486° N
- Longitude
- 118.5601° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Avalanche Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Alabama HillsS2237
At a soil climate station/26.8 mi away/5,230 ft/4,795 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Lone PineO26
At an airfield/30.4 mi away/3,688 ft/6,337 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Independence 0.2 NNWCA-IN-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.2 mi away/3,914 ft/6,111 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Grant GroveGRGC1
At a cooperative observer's station/22.3 mi away/6,647 ft/3,378 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 Grant Grove (GRGC1), 22.3 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in California
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Avalanche Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Sierra Nevadafeature, 19 mi
- Mount Whitneyfeature, 19 mi
- Silver Citycommunity, 20 mi
- Independencecommunity, 20 mi
- Wilsoniacommunity, 22 mi
- Hartlandcommunity, 23 mi
- Three Riverscommunity, 29 mi
- Lone Pinecommunity, 29 mi
- Big Pinecommunity, 32 mi
- Squaw Valleycommunity, 35 mi
- Lemon Covecommunity, 37 mi
- Wilkersoncommunity, 37 mi
Mountain passes near Avalanche Pass
- Gardiner Pass6 mi
- Longley Pass6 mi
- Lucys Foot Pass8 mi
- Millys Foot Pass8 mi
- Glen Pass9 mi
- Harrison Pass9 mi
- Granite Pass9 mi
- Colby Pass10 mi