At a river or reservoir gauge/8.5 mi away/2,621 ft/3,189 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Basket Pass
Basket Pass, California
Mountain pass in Kern County, California, at 5,810 ft52°
75°/47°
Clear·
Feels like 52°·Gentle breeze 12 mph E
Now. Basket Pass is 52° and clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 72° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 4 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. Air quality is moderate (index 74): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 73°, and the coolest Thursday, near 53°. Rain is likely Wednesday (68%). Rain is possible Thursday (48%). Frost is possible Thursday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:28 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 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
74Air quality
29%Humidity
2%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
52feels52
12mph
Today
Oct 17
7547
13mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7345
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6945
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
6241
25%
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
5639
68%
Thu
Oct 22
5336
48%
Fri
Oct 23
5535
UV 6
52°
75°47°
73°45°
69°45°
62°41°
56°39°
53°36°
55°35°
As of 4:00 AM in Basket Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Basket Pass
Index 74, moderate, led by coarse particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Bakersfield (CA), 30 miles off.
74Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)52Moderate-
- Ozone36Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)74Moderate-
The days ahead
Unhealthy for sensitive groups each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 93, moderate.
GoodModerateSensitive groups
- 93YesterdayOct 16
- 101TodayOct 17
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 11 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Basket Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Sat 3 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 Basket Pass, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 11 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 5,810 ft
- County
- Kern County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 35.6566° N
- Longitude
- 118.6287° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Basket Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
SR-178 - Kern Canyon RoadCF116
Beside a road/22.7 mi away/751 ft/5,059 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/28.4 mi away/492 ft/5,318 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW6906CW6906
In a volunteer observer's own ground/34.5 mi away/4,005 ft/1,805 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Chimney CreekS2240
At a soil climate station/35.6 mi away/5,680 ft/130 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
GlennvilleGNNC1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.3 mi away/3,228 ft/2,582 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Lake Isabella 0.7 SWCA-KN-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.3 mi away/2,518 ft/3,292 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 Glennville (GNNC1), 6.3 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:30. measured daily
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Near Basket Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Alta Sierracommunity, 7 mi
- Glennvillecommunity, 7 mi
- Lake Isabellacommunity, 9 mi
- Bodfishcommunity, 9 mi
- Wofford Heightscommunity, 10 mi
- Panorama Heightscommunity, 10 mi
- Poseycommunity, 11 mi
- Poso Parkcommunity, 11 mi
- Idlewildcommunity, 11 mi
- McClenney Tractcommunity, 12 mi
- Sugarloaf Villagecommunity, 12 mi
- Woodycommunity, 12 mi
Mountain passes near Basket Pass
- Portuguese Pass10 mi
- Bull Run Pass13 mi
- Parker Pass21 mi
- Sirretta Pass25 mi
- Sherman Pass27 mi
- Bird Spring Pass29 mi
- Hamp Williams Pass29 mi
- Bakeoven Pass34 mi