Charlotte LakeCRLC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.3 mi away/11,854 ft/645 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Gardiner Pass
Gardiner Pass, California
Mountain pass in Fresno County, California, at 11,209 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.
37°
57°/31°
Clear·
Feels like 32°·Light breeze 7 mph ENE
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Gardiner Pass until 10 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Gardiner Pass is 37° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 8°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-northeast at 7 mph, gusting to 18 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 5 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 55°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 35°. Rain is likely Tuesday (59%) and Wednesday (69%). Rain is possible Thursday (41%). 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 10:25 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 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
7Air quality
31%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
37feels32
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5731
12mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
5530
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
5430
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
5028
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
3923
59%
Wed
Oct 21
3519
69%
Thu
Oct 22
3617
41%
UV 6
37°
57°31°
55°30°
54°30°
50°28°
39°23°
35°19°
36°17°
As of 1:00 AM in Gardiner Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Gardiner Pass
Index 7, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Lone Pine (CA), 27 miles off.
7Good
- Coarse particles (PM10)7Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 8, good.
GoodModerate
- 8YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Gardiner Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 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 Gardiner Pass, the next 41 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
- 11,209 ft
- County
- Fresno County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 36.7985° N
- Longitude
- 118.4823° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Gardiner Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Alabama HillsS2237
At a soil climate station/25.2 mi away/5,230 ft/5,979 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Lone PineO26
At an airfield/28.0 mi away/3,688 ft/7,521 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Independence 0.2 NNWCA-IN-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.6 mi away/3,914 ft/7,295 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Grant GroveGRGC1
At a cooperative observer's station/26.9 mi away/6,647 ft/4,562 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 Grant Grove (GRGC1), 26.9 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in California
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Gardiner Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Independencecommunity, 16 mi
- Sierra Nevadafeature, 18 mi
- Mount Whitneyfeature, 18 mi
- Silver Citycommunity, 25 mi
- Wilsoniacommunity, 27 mi
- Lone Pinecommunity, 27 mi
- Big Pinecommunity, 27 mi
- Hartlandcommunity, 28 mi
- Wilkersoncommunity, 33 mi
- Three Riverscommunity, 35 mi
- West Bishopcommunity, 39 mi
- Bishopcity, 39 mi
Mountain passes near Gardiner Pass
- Glen Pass4 mi
- Avalanche Pass6 mi
- Kearsarge Pass6 mi
- Baxter Pass6 mi
- Longley Pass8 mi
- Lucys Foot Pass8 mi
- Harrison Pass8 mi
- Millys Foot Pass8 mi