Upper Tyndall CreekTYNC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.0 mi away/11,444 ft/563 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Colby Pass
Colby Pass, California
Mountain pass in Tulare County, California, at 12,007 ft* AFFECTED AREA...Fire weather zone 592 Central Sierra.Fire weather zone 593 North Kings River.Fire weather zone 594 Sequoia Kings.Fire weather zone 595 Lake Isabella. * WIND...STRONG NORTHEAST WINDS EXPECTED. A 70 TO 90 PERCENT PROBABILITY OF GUSTS EXCEEDING 40 MPH ON THURSDAY. A 40 TO 60 PERCENT PROBABILITY OF GUSTS EXCEEDING 40 MPH ON FRIDAY. * HUMIDITY...MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY BETWEEN 15-25 PERCENT BOTH DAYS. * THUNDERSTORMS...NO THUNDERSTORM THREAT. * HIGHEST THREAT...IS LOCATED FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE 4,000 UP TO THE CREST OF THE SIERRA NEVADA. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED.
A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now, or will shortly. A combination of strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures can contribute to extreme fire behavior.
31°
58°/29°
Clear·
Feels like 23°·Gentle breeze 9 mph NE
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Colby Pass until 10 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Colby Pass is 31° and clear at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 23°. The dew point is 18°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northeast at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 56°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 35°. Rain is likely Tuesday (57%), Wednesday (74%) and Thursday (51%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:16 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:26 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
36Air quality
16%Humidity
2%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
31feels23
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5829
14mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
5630
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
5429
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
5127
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
4224
57%
Wed
Oct 21
3521
74%
Thu
Oct 22
3618
51%
UV 6
31°
58°29°
56°30°
54°29°
51°27°
42°24°
35°21°
36°18°
As of 6:00 AM in Colby Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Colby Pass
Index 36, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (CA), 20 miles off.
36Good
- Ozone36Good41 ppb20.3 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone.
GoodModerate
- 46TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Colby Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 5 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 Colby Pass, the next 42 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
- 12,007 ft
- County
- Tulare County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 36.6185° N
- Longitude
- 118.5012° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Colby Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Alabama HillsS2237
At a soil climate station/20.6 mi away/5,230 ft/6,777 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Lone PineO26
At an airfield/25.2 mi away/3,688 ft/8,319 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Three Rivers 16.3 ECA-TL-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.0 mi away/7,536 ft/4,471 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ash MountainASHC1
At a cooperative observer's station/20.0 mi away/1,650 ft/10,357 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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 Colby Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Sierra Nevadafeature, 11 mi
- Mount Whitneyfeature, 12 mi
- Silver Citycommunity, 13 mi
- Independencecommunity, 21 mi
- Lone Pinecommunity, 24 mi
- Hartlandcommunity, 25 mi
- Three Riverscommunity, 26 mi
- Wilsoniacommunity, 27 mi
- Sequoia Crestcommunity, 31 mi
- Cedar Slopecommunity, 33 mi
- Cartagocommunity, 33 mi
- Lemon Covecommunity, 34 mi
Mountain passes near Colby Pass
- Triple Divide Pass2 mi
- Copper Mine Pass3 mi
- Elizabeth Pass4 mi
- Longley Pass5 mi
- Millys Foot Pass6 mi
- Lucys Foot Pass7 mi
- Harrison Pass8 mi
- Forester Pass9 mi