Hatchet MtnCD010
Beside a road/0.3 mi away/4,373 ft/41 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/California/Hatchet Mountain Pass
Now. Hatchet Mountain Pass is 61° and clear at 8 PM. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 5 mph, gusting to 16 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° 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 82°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 57°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Tuesday, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:29 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 8:00 PM in Hatchet Mountain Pass, California.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Redding (CA), 38 miles off.
Yesterday measured 33, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Hatchet Mountain Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Hatchet MtnCD010
Beside a road/0.3 mi away/4,373 ft/41 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Snow MountainSNWC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.2 mi away/5,810 ft/1,478 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/36.4 mi away/502 ft/3,830 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Cassel - Hat CreekHATC1
At a cooperative observer's station/12.9 mi away/2,989 ft/1,343 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Whitmore 4.1 NNECA-SH-67
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.2 mi away/2,693 ft/1,639 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.