Upper Tyndall CreekTYNC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.3 mi away/11,444 ft/1,009 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Longley Pass
Now. Longley Pass is 30° and clear at 4 AM. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 27° 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 51°, and the coolest Thursday, near 32°. Rain is likely Wednesday (79%) and Thursday (62%). Rain is possible Tuesday (44%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 26°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:15 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:24 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.
As of 4:00 AM in Longley Pass, California.
Air quality
Index 38, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (CA), 24 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 48, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 11 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Sat 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Longley Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Upper Tyndall CreekTYNC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.3 mi away/11,444 ft/1,009 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alabama HillsS2237
At a soil climate station/21.0 mi away/5,230 ft/7,223 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Lone PineO26
At an airfield/24.9 mi away/3,688 ft/8,765 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/17.4 mi away/3,914 ft/8,539 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ash MountainASHC1
At a cooperative observer's station/23.5 mi away/1,650 ft/10,803 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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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.