Mitchell MeadowMMUC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.5 mi away/9,938 ft/520 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/J.O. Pass
J.O. Pass, California
Mountain pass in Tulare County, California, at 9,418 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.
43°
66°/39°
Clear·
Feels like 37°·Gentle breeze 11 mph ENE
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for J.O. Pass until 10 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. J.O. Pass is 43° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 16°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east-northeast at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 63° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 63°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 43°. Rain is likely Tuesday (56%), Wednesday (73%) and Thursday (52%). The first freeze could come Wednesday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:27 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
38Air quality
33%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
43feels37
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
6639
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6340
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6139
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
5837
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
4934
56%
Wed
Oct 21
4331
73%
Thu
Oct 22
4328
52%
43°
66°39°
63°40°
61°39°
58°37°
49°34°
43°31°
43°28°
As of 2:00 AM in J.O. Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at J.O. Pass
Index 38, good, led by ozone. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (CA), 14 miles off.
38Good
- Ozone38Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone.
GoodModerate
- 46TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 40 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at J.O. Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 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 J.O. Pass, the next 40 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
- 9,418 ft
- County
- Tulare County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 36.6758° N
- Longitude
- 118.7440° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest J.O. Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Alabama HillsS2237
At a soil climate station/34.6 mi away/5,230 ft/4,188 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station FW1241FW1241
In a volunteer observer's own ground/35.4 mi away/374 ft/9,044 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Lone PineO26
At an airfield/39.0 mi away/3,688 ft/5,730 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Grant GroveGRGC1
At a cooperative observer's station/12.9 mi away/6,647 ft/2,771 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Miramonte 2.2 ESECA-FR-36
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.1 mi away/3,523 ft/5,895 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 Grant Grove (GRGC1), 12.9 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 J.O. Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Hartlandcommunity, 12 mi
- Wilsoniacommunity, 13 mi
- Silver Citycommunity, 15 mi
- Three Riverscommunity, 19 mi
- Squaw Valleycommunity, 24 mi
- Sierra Nevadafeature, 25 mi
- Mount Whitneyfeature, 26 mi
- Lemon Covecommunity, 26 mi
- Woodlakecity, 27 mi
- Lindcovecommunity, 28 mi
- Sevillecommunity, 30 mi
- East Orosicommunity, 30 mi
Mountain passes near J.O. Pass
- Poop Out Pass2 mi
- Silliman Pass2 mi
- Marvin Pass4 mi
- Burton Pass8 mi
- Elizabeth Pass11 mi
- Avalanche Pass11 mi
- Copper Mine Pass12 mi
- Triple Divide Pass13 mi