Beside a road/1.7 mi away/7,198 ft/102 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/California/Donner Pass
Donner Pass, California
Mountain pass in Placer County, California, at 7,096 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.
55°
64°/38°
Clear·
Feels like 55°·Gentle breeze 10 mph ENE
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Donner Pass until 10 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Donner Pass is 55° and clear at 6 PM. The dew point is 24°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east-northeast at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 37° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 67°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 45°. Rain is likely Tuesday (55%). Rain is possible Wednesday (48%). The first freeze could come Tuesday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:29 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
22%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
6:00 PM
55feels55
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
6438
21mph
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
6737
19mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6738
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6336
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
5637
13mph
Tue
Oct 20
4631
55%
Wed
Oct 21
4531
48%
55°
64°38°
67°37°
67°38°
63°36°
56°37°
46°31°
45°31°
As of 6:00 PM in Donner Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Donner Pass
Index 16, good, led by fine particles. Read at 6 PM from its reporting area, Truckee (CA), 9 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)16Good7.8 mi
- Ozone-40 ppb14.4 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 14, good.
GoodModerate
- 14YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 11 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Donner Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 5 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 Donner Pass, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 11 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 7,096 ft
- County
- Placer County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 39.3191° N
- Longitude
- 120.3285° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Donner Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Donner Lk Precip Gage Nr Truckee391930120165301
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.5 mi away/5,940 ft/1,156 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/10.1 mi away/5,899 ft/1,197 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW8247FW8247
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.9 mi away/5,914 ft/1,182 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Truckee 1.4 WCA-PC-30
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.4 mi away/5,944 ft/1,152 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BocaBOCC1
At a cooperative observer's station/13.4 mi away/5,600 ft/1,496 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 Boca (BOCC1), 13.4 miles from here, read 11 Oct, 07:15. measured daily
Elsewhere in California
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Donner Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Sugar Bowlski area, 2 mi
- Soda Springscommunity, 3 mi
- Kingvalecommunity, 6 mi
- Truckeetown, 8 mi
- Palisades Tahoesurveyed ski area, 10 mi
- Northstarsurveyed ski area, 12 mi
- Cedar Flatcommunity, 14 mi
- Dollar Pointcommunity, 15 mi
- Carnelian Baycommunity, 15 mi
- Sunnyside-Tahoe Citycommunity, 15 mi
- Tahoe Vistacommunity, 16 mi
- Floristoncommunity, 17 mi
Mountain passes near Donner Pass
- Castle Pass3 mi
- Henness Pass14 mi
- Barker Pass18 mi
- Yuba Pass22 mi
- Phipps Pass27 mi
- Rockbound Pass30 mi
- Dicks Pass30 mi
- Mosquito Pass32 mi