Carson Pass SnotelCXSC1
A snow pillow on a mountain/0.3 mi away/8,353 ft/242 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Carson Pass
Carson Pass, California
Mountain pass in Alpine County, California, at 8,595 ft...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PDT FRIDAY DUE TO WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA... * AFFECTED AREA...Portions of Sierra Nevada and adjacent Foothills. * TIMING...Until 10 AM PDT Friday. * 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.
43°
62°/31°
Clear·
Feels like 37°·Gentle breeze 11 mph NE
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Carson Pass until 10 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Carson Pass is 43° and clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northeast at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 63°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 41°. Rain is likely Tuesday (61%) and Wednesday (50%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
8Air quality
35%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
43feels37
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
6231
13mph
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
6330
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6332
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6031
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
5430
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
4324
61%
Wed
Oct 21
4122
50%
43°
62°31°
63°30°
63°32°
60°31°
54°30°
43°24°
41°22°
As of 10:00 PM in Carson Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Carson Pass
Index 8, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, South Lake Tahoe (CA), 15 miles off.
8Good
- Coarse particles (PM10)8Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 6, good.
GoodModerate
- 6YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Carson Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 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 Carson Pass, the next 44 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
- 8,595 ft
- County
- Alpine County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 38.6938° N
- Longitude
- 119.9885° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Carson Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/8.5 mi away/7,382 ft/1,213 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW3758EW3758
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.2 mi away/6,279 ft/2,316 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/13.8 mi away/6,263 ft/2,332 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
South Lake Tahoe 0.8 SSWCA-ED-38
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.2 mi away/6,270 ft/2,325 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Tahoma CaTAAC1
At a cooperative observer's station/26.4 mi away/6,315 ft/2,280 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), 26.4 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 Carson Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Kirkwoodsurveyed ski area, 4 mi
- Kirkwoodcommunity, 4 mi
- Sierra-at-Tahoeski area, 9 mi
- Markleevillecommunity, 10 mi
- Meyerscommunity, 11 mi
- Alpine Villagecommunity, 11 mi
- Mesa Vistacommunity, 13 mi
- Snow Valleyski area, 14 mi
- Bear Valleycommunity, 16 mi
- South Lake Tahoecity, 16 mi
- Heavenlysurveyed ski area, 17 mi
- Topazcommunity, 26 mi
Mountain passes near Carson Pass
- Luther Pass7 mi
- Johnson Pass9 mi
- Armstrong Pass10 mi
- Ebbetts Pass14 mi
- Mosquito Pass16 mi
- Dicks Pass17 mi
- Wolf Creek Pass18 mi
- Rockbound Pass18 mi