Ostrander LakeOSTC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.9 mi away/8,241 ft/195 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Chiquito Pass
Chiquito Pass, California
Mountain pass in Madera County, California, at 8,046 ft...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PDT THIS EVENING DUE TO WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR CENTRAL SIERRA, NORTH KINGS RIVER, SEQUOIA KINGS, LAKE ISABELLA, TEHACHAPI AREA, AND FORT TEJON... * AFFECTED AREA...Fire Weather Zones 592, 593, 594, and 595. * TIMING...Until 10 PM PDT this evening. * WINDS...East winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...Relative Humidity between 14 to 45 percent. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED.
Please advise the appropriate officials or fire crews in the field of this Red Flag Warning. A Red Flag Warning is issued when we identify weather conditions that promote rapid spread of fire which may become life-threatening. This does not mean there is a fire. These conditions are either occurring now or will begin soon. It is important to have multiple ways to receive information from authorities.
61°
70°/42°
Clear·
Feels like 61°·Light air 4 mph ENE
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Chiquito Pass until 10 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Chiquito Pass is 61° and clear at 11 AM. The dew point is 18°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-northeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 67° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° 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 Thursday, near 44°. Rain is likely Tuesday (53%) and Wednesday (65%). Rain is possible Thursday (41%). The first freeze could come Wednesday, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:27 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
6UV Moderate
44Air quality
19%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
11:00 AM
61feels61
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
7042
14mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6542
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6341
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
5739
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
4735
53%
Wed
Oct 21
4532
65%
Thu
Oct 22
4431
41%
UV 6
61°
70°42°
65°42°
63°41°
57°39°
47°35°
45°32°
44°31°
As of 11:00 AM in Chiquito Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Chiquito Pass
Index 44, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Yosemite National Park (CA), 19 miles off.
44Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)23Good-
- Ozone44Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 61, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 61YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 5 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Chiquito Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 10 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 Chiquito Pass, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 8,046 ft
- County
- Madera County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 37.5416° N
- Longitude
- 119.4396° W
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Chiquito Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.9 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
At a climate reference station/25.3 mi away/6,620 ft/1,426 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Beside a road/28.3 mi away/8,031 ft/15 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/33.4 mi away/7,129 ft/917 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Doe RidgeS2191
At a soil climate station/34.2 mi away/7,340 ft/706 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station GW5813GW5813
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.3 mi away/7,002 ft/1,044 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
South Entrance Yosemite National ParkYNPC1
In a park or preserve/11.7 mi away/5,453 ft/2,593 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Oakhurst 2.7 ENECA-MA-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.8 mi away/3,364 ft/4,682 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in California
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Chiquito Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Wawonacommunity, 11 mi
- Fish Campcommunity, 12 mi
- Yosemite Valleycommunity, 16 mi
- Bass Lakecommunity, 16 mi
- Yosemite Westcommunity, 17 mi
- Oakhurstcommunity, 18 mi
- Nipinnawaseecommunity, 19 mi
- Forestacommunity, 20 mi
- Ahwahneecommunity, 20 mi
- Yosemitefeature, 21 mi
- North Forkcommunity, 22 mi
- El Portalcommunity, 22 mi
Mountain passes near Chiquito Pass
- Grizzly Pass4 mi
- Fernandez Pass4 mi
- Merced Pass5 mi
- Buena Vista Pass6 mi
- Red Peak Pass8 mi
- Post Peak Pass9 mi
- Isberg Pass9 mi
- Little Shuteye Pass11 mi