Cottonwood LakesCWDC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.0 mi away/10,236 ft/907 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Cottonwood Pass
Cottonwood Pass, California
Mountain pass in Inyo County, California, at 11,143 ft39°
60°/29°
Clear·
Feels like 30°·Moderate breeze 16 mph NNE
Now. Cottonwood Pass is 39° and clear at 8 PM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northeast at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 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 Saturday, near 59°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 38°. Rain is likely Tuesday (58%) and Wednesday (73%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:31 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
8Air quality
17%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
8:00 PM
39feels30
16mph
Today
Oct 15
6029
20mph
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
5831
22mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5929
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
5730
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
5428
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
4325
58%
Wed
Oct 21
3820
73%
39°
60°29°
58°31°
59°29°
57°30°
54°28°
43°25°
38°20°
As of 8:00 PM in Cottonwood Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Cottonwood Pass
Index 8, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Lone Pine (CA), 14 miles off.
8Good
- Coarse particles (PM10)8Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 8, good.
GoodModerate
- 8YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 46 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Cottonwood Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 7 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 Cottonwood Pass, the next 46 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
- 11,143 ft
- County
- Inyo County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 36.4530° N
- Longitude
- 118.2151° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Cottonwood Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Alabama HillsS2237
At a soil climate station/8.8 mi away/5,230 ft/5,913 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Lone PineO26
At an airfield/13.1 mi away/3,688 ft/7,455 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US-395 - Sage FlatCF152
Beside a road/21.6 mi away/3,959 ft/7,184 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Three Rivers 16.3 ECA-TL-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.0 mi away/7,536 ft/3,607 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ash MountainASHC1
At a cooperative observer's station/34.0 mi away/1,650 ft/9,493 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 Cottonwood Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Mount Whitneyfeature, 10 mi
- Sierra Nevadafeature, 10 mi
- Lone Pinecommunity, 14 mi
- Cartagocommunity, 14 mi
- Olanchacommunity, 17 mi
- Keelercommunity, 19 mi
- Silver Citycommunity, 24 mi
- Independencecommunity, 24 mi
- Cedar Slopecommunity, 29 mi
- Sequoia Crestcommunity, 30 mi
- Ponderosacommunity, 30 mi
- Camp Nelsoncommunity, 31 mi
Mountain passes near Cottonwood Pass
- Trail Pass3 mi
- New Army Pass3 mi
- Mulkey Pass3 mi
- Army Pass3 mi
- Siberian Pass3 mi
- Arc Pass7 mi
- Crabtree Pass8 mi
- Whitney Pass8 mi