Chilkoot MeadowCHMC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.6 mi away/7,310 ft/273 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Little Shuteye Pass
Little Shuteye Pass, California
Mountain pass in Madera County, California, at 7,037 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.
51°
73°/47°
Clear·
Feels like 51°·Gentle breeze 10 mph NE
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Little Shuteye Pass until 10 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Little Shuteye Pass is 51° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 20°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northeast at 10 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 72° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 3 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. Air quality is unhealthy for sensitive groups (index 141): children, older adults and people with heart or lung conditions should cut back on long or hard exertion outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 69°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 46°. Rain is likely Tuesday (53%) and Wednesday (58%). Rain is possible Thursday (41%). Frost is possible Wednesday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
141Air quality
28%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
51feels51
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
7347
13mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6947
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6646
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6043
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
4937
53%
Wed
Oct 21
4635
58%
Thu
Oct 22
4834
41%
51°
73°47°
69°47°
66°46°
60°43°
49°37°
46°35°
48°34°
As of 12:00 AM in Little Shuteye Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Little Shuteye Pass
Index 141, unhealthy for sensitive groups, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Yosemite National Park (CA), 27 miles off.
141Unhealthy for sensitive groups
- Fine particles (PM2.5)141Unhealthy for sensitive groups-
- Ozone40Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 60, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 60YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Little Shuteye 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 Little Shuteye Pass, the next 42 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
- 7,037 ft
- County
- Madera County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 37.3785° N
- Longitude
- 119.4363° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Little Shuteye Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.6 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
At a climate reference station/33.2 mi away/6,620 ft/417 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
SR-203 - US-395CF155
Beside a road/33.7 mi away/7,339 ft/302 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/36.9 mi away/7,129 ft/92 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Doe RidgeS2191
At a soil climate station/37.8 mi away/7,340 ft/303 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Oakhurst 2.7 ENECA-MA-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.4 mi away/3,364 ft/3,673 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/10.9 mi away/2,651 ft/4,386 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in California
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Little Shuteye Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Bass Lakecommunity, 8 mi
- North Forkcommunity, 11 mi
- Oakhurstcommunity, 12 mi
- Fish Campcommunity, 13 mi
- Ahwahneecommunity, 16 mi
- Big Creekcommunity, 16 mi
- Wawonacommunity, 16 mi
- Nipinnawaseecommunity, 16 mi
- Coarsegoldcommunity, 18 mi
- Auberrycommunity, 22 mi
- Shaver Lakecommunity, 22 mi
- Yosemite Lakescommunity, 22 mi
Mountain passes near Little Shuteye Pass
- Shuteye Pass3 mi
- Grizzly Pass9 mi
- Chiquito Pass11 mi
- Fernandez Pass15 mi
- Buena Vista Pass16 mi
- Merced Pass16 mi
- Battalion Pass17 mi
- Potter Pass17 mi