Homewood RAWSHMDC1
A remote fire weather station/3.4 mi away/7,145 ft/533 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Barker Pass
Barker Pass, California
Mountain pass in Placer County, California, at 7,678 ft...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PDT THIS MORNING DUE TO WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA... * AFFECTED AREA...Portions of central and northern California. * TIMING...Until 10 AM PDT this morning. * 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.
47°
64°/38°
Clear·
Feels like 42°·Gentle breeze 12 mph E
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Barker Pass until 10 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Barker Pass is 47° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east at 12 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 63° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 65°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 45°. Rain is likely Tuesday (59%) and Wednesday (55%). Rain is possible Thursday (39%). Frost is possible Tuesday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:21 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:25 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
37Air quality
49%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
47feels42
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
6438
14mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6542
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6242
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
5641
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
4836
59%
Wed
Oct 21
4534
55%
Thu
Oct 22
4534
39%
47°
64°38°
65°42°
62°42°
56°41°
48°36°
45°34°
45°34°
As of 2:00 AM in Barker Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Barker Pass
Index 37, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Tahoe City area (CA), 7 miles off.
37Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)22Good7.4 mi
- Ozone37Good44 ppb7.4 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 38, good.
GoodModerate
- 38YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Barker 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 Barker 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
- 7,678 ft
- County
- Placer County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 39.0763° N
- Longitude
- 120.2338° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Barker Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Hwy 89 at RampartCD040
Beside a road/6.8 mi away/6,217 ft/1,461 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/17.6 mi away/5,899 ft/1,779 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW3758EW3758
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.6 mi away/6,279 ft/1,399 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Tahoma CaTAAC1
At a cooperative observer's station/5.7 mi away/6,315 ft/1,363 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Tahoma .5 SCA-ED-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.7 mi away/6,316 ft/1,362 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Tahoma Ca (TAAC1), 5.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in California
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Barker Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Homewoodski area, 4 mi
- Tahomacommunity, 5 mi
- Sunnyside-Tahoe Citycommunity, 7 mi
- Palisades Tahoesurveyed ski area, 8 mi
- Dollar Pointcommunity, 10 mi
- Cedar Flatcommunity, 12 mi
- Carnelian Baycommunity, 14 mi
- Northstarsurveyed ski area, 15 mi
- Tahoe Vistacommunity, 15 mi
- Kings Beachcommunity, 16 mi
- Sugar Bowlski area, 17 mi
- South Lake Tahoecity, 17 mi
Mountain passes near Barker Pass
- Phipps Pass9 mi
- Rockbound Pass12 mi
- Dicks Pass13 mi
- Mosquito Pass14 mi
- Donner Pass18 mi
- Johnson Pass21 mi
- Castle Pass21 mi
- Armstrong Pass24 mi