Tuolumne MeadowsTUMC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.6 mi away/8,632 ft/2,436 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Donohue Pass
Donohue Pass, California
Mountain pass in Mono County, California, at 11,068 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.
25°
56°/23°
Clear·
Feels like 19°·Light breeze 5 mph ENE
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Donohue Pass until 10 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Donohue Pass is 25° and clear at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 19°. The dew point is 18°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-northeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 27° by 4 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 57°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 36°. Rain is likely Tuesday (63%) and Wednesday (68%). Rain is possible Thursday (45%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 24°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:18 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:25 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.
0UV Low
8Air quality
74%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
25feels19
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5623
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
5724
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
5625
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
5124
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
4221
63%
Wed
Oct 21
3618
68%
Thu
Oct 22
3716
45%
UV 6
25°
56°23°
57°24°
56°25°
51°24°
42°21°
36°18°
37°16°
As of 6:00 AM in Donohue Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Donohue Pass
Index 8, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Lee Vining (CA), 16 miles off.
8Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)8Good15.7 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good15.7 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 6, good.
GoodModerate
- 6YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Donohue 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 Donohue 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
- 11,068 ft
- County
- Mono County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 37.7602° N
- Longitude
- 119.2485° W
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Donohue Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.6 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
US-395 - SR-158CF150
Beside a road/12.7 mi away/6,866 ft/4,202 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
RancheriaS2236
At a soil climate station/23.1 mi away/7,200 ft/3,868 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
At an airfield/24.3 mi away/7,129 ft/3,939 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW0353GW0353
In a volunteer observer's own ground/30.8 mi away/6,917 ft/4,151 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At a climate reference station/31.2 mi away/6,620 ft/4,448 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Tuolumne MeadowsTLUC1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.6 mi away/8,693 ft/2,375 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Mammoth Lakes 1.5 NECA-MN-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.0 mi away/7,893 ft/3,175 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Tuolumne Meadows (TLUC1), 9.6 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in California
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Donohue Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- June Lakecommunity, 9 mi
- June Mountainski area, 10 mi
- Mammoth Mountainsurveyed ski area, 15 mi
- Lee Viningcommunity, 15 mi
- Yosemitefeature, 16 mi
- Mammoth Lakestown, 17 mi
- Yosemite Valleycommunity, 18 mi
- Mono Citycommunity, 20 mi
- Virginia Lakescommunity, 20 mi
- Wawonacommunity, 26 mi
- Yosemite Westcommunity, 27 mi
- Forestacommunity, 28 mi
Mountain passes near Donohue Pass
- Island Pass3 mi
- Koip Peak Pass4 mi
- Gem Pass5 mi
- Vogelsang Pass5 mi
- Tuolumne Pass6 mi
- Parker Pass6 mi
- Agnew Pass6 mi
- Mono Pass7 mi