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A remote fire weather station/4.4 mi away/4,537 ft/1,044 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Hamp Williams Pass
Hamp Williams Pass, California
Mountain pass in Kern County, California, at 5,581 ft...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PDT THIS EVENING DUE TO WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR CENTRAL SIERRA, NORTH KINGS RIVER, SEQUOIA KINGS, LAKE ISABELLA, TEHACHAPI AREA, AND FORT TEJON... * 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. Elevations from 4,000 feet and above. * TIMING...Until 10 PM PDT this evening. * WINDS...East winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...Minimum relative humidity between 15 to 25 percent. * IMPACTS...Any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly. Outdoor burning is not recommended.
Please advise the appropriate officials or fire crews in the field of this Red Flag Warning. A Red Flag Warning is issued when we identify weather conditions that promote rapid spread of fire which may become life- threatening. This does not mean there is a fire. These conditions are either occurring now or will begin soon. It is important to have multiple ways to receive information from authorities.
62°
71°/51°
Clear·
Feels like 62°·Fresh breeze 20 mph E
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Hamp Williams Pass until 10 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Hamp Williams Pass is 62° and clear at 6 PM. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the east at 20 mph, gusting to 32 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 50° 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 68°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 51°. Rain is likely Wednesday (71%). Rain is possible Tuesday (30%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:30 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
39Air quality
16%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
6:00 PM
62feels62
20mph
Today
Oct 16
7151
35mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6850
23mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6745
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6845
12mph
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
5941
30%
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
5139
71%
Thu
Oct 22
5137
25%
13mph
UV 6
62°
71°51°
68°50°
67°45°
68°45°
59°41°
51°39°
51°37°
As of 6:00 PM in Hamp Williams Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Hamp Williams Pass
Index 39, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 PM from its reporting area, Mojave (CA), 22 miles off.
39Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)1Good-
- Ozone39Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)9Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 38, good.
GoodModerate
- 38YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 11 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Hamp Williams Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 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 Hamp Williams Pass, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 11 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 5,581 ft
- County
- Kern County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 35.3364° N
- Longitude
- 118.2859° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Hamp Williams Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Beside a road/16.2 mi away/4,071 ft/1,510 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW6906CW6906
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.3 mi away/4,005 ft/1,576 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
TehachapiTSP
At an airfield/16.4 mi away/4,001 ft/1,580 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Chimney CreekS2240
At a soil climate station/37.4 mi away/5,680 ft/99 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Caliente 13.3 ENECA-KN-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.3 mi away/2,905 ft/2,676 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Loraine 5 NNECAIC1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.8 mi away/4,259 ft/1,322 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 Loraine 5 NNE (CAIC1), 7.8 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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Near Hamp Williams Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Tehachapicity, 18 mi
- Golden Hillscommunity, 18 mi
- Mountain Meadowscommunity, 18 mi
- Keenecommunity, 20 mi
- Mojavecommunity, 21 mi
- Bodfishcommunity, 21 mi
- Squirrel Mountain Valleycommunity, 21 mi
- Weldoncommunity, 21 mi
- Mountain Mesacommunity, 22 mi
- Lake Isabellacommunity, 22 mi
- Bear Valley Springscommunity, 23 mi
- California Citycity, 23 mi
Mountain passes near Hamp Williams Pass
- Tehachapi Pass16 mi
- Bird Spring Pass17 mi
- Oak Creek Pass20 mi
- Walker Pass27 mi
- Basket Pass29 mi
- Portuguese Pass36 mi
- Bull Run Pass38 mi
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