Beside a road/11.0 mi away/1,371 ft/1,556 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/California/Buck Pass
Buck Pass, California
Mountain pass in Merced County, California, at 2,927 ft56°
85°/53°
Clear·
Feels like 56°·Light air 3 mph ESE
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 77° after 85° today.
Now. Buck Pass is 56° and clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 52° by 8 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 77°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 60°. Rain is possible Tuesday (43%) and Wednesday (41%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:35 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 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
34Air quality
45%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
56feels56
now, clear
Today
Oct 17
8553
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7751
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6344
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6042
43%
Wed
Oct 21
6145
41%
Thu
Oct 22
6044
24%
Fri
Oct 23
6143
UV 6
56°
85°53°
77°51°
63°44°
60°42°
61°45°
60°44°
61°43°
As of 4:00 AM in Buck Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Buck Pass
Index 34, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Hollister (CA), 12 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good12.1 mi
- Ozone32Good35 ppb12.1 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)34Good12.1 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Wed Oct 21, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 47, good.
GoodModerate
- 47YesterdayOct 16
- 47TodayOct 17
- 37SunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
- GoodWedOct 21
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 11 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Buck 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 Buck 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
- 2,927 ft
- County
- Merced County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 36.9136° N
- Longitude
- 121.1633° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Buck Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 11.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Los Banos RAWSSLRC1
A remote fire weather station/11.5 mi away/318 ft/2,609 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW3117EW3117
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.0 mi away/392 ft/2,535 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
HollisterCVH
At an airfield/13.7 mi away/230 ft/2,697 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Merced 23 WSW93243
At a climate reference station/26.9 mi away/78 ft/2,849 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Hollister 2.1 ESECA-ST-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.2 mi away/389 ft/2,538 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Los Banos - Arburua RanchLBRC1
On a farm or research station/12.4 mi away/872 ft/2,055 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in California
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Buck Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Tres Pinoscommunity, 12 mi
- Ridgemarkcommunity, 13 mi
- Hollistercity, 14 mi
- Santa Nellacommunity, 15 mi
- Voltacommunity, 18 mi
- Los Banoscity, 21 mi
- San Juan Bautistacity, 21 mi
- Gilroycity, 24 mi
- Gustinecity, 25 mi
- San Martincommunity, 26 mi
- Aromascommunity, 27 mi
- South Dos Paloscommunity, 29 mi
Mountain passes near Buck Pass
- Frenchs Pass4 mi
- Pacheco Pass11 mi
- Panoche Pass21 mi
- Days Pass25 mi
- Chittenden Pass26 mi
- Hecker Pass31 mi
- Cape Horn Pass41 mi
- Patchen Pass48 mi