Death Valley - Bad Water BasinBWBC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/28.7 mi away/-98 ft/4,411 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Mengel Pass
Mengel Pass, California
Mountain pass in Inyo County, California, at 4,313 ft* WHAT...Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 50 mph expected. * WHERE...Southern Owens Valley, Northwest Plateau, Hualapai Mountains, Northwest Deserts, Death Valley National Park, Western Clark and Southern Nye County, Sheep Range, and Spring Mountains-Red Rock Canyon. * WHEN...Until 11 AM PDT /11 AM MST/ Friday. * IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Use extra caution.
59°
78°/51°
Clear·
Feels like 59°·Moderate breeze 17 mph NNW
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Mengel Pass until 11 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Mengel Pass is 59° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 22°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 17 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 76° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° 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 Monday, near 77°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 61°. Rain is possible Tuesday (31%) and Wednesday (46%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:11 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:23 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 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
34Air quality
24%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
59feels59
17mph
Today
Oct 16
7851
19mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7648
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
7545
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7746
13mph
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
6944
31%
15mph
Wed
Oct 21
6139
46%
Thu
Oct 22
6237
19%
59°
78°51°
76°48°
75°45°
77°46°
69°44°
61°39°
62°37°
As of 1:00 AM in Mengel Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Mengel Pass
Index 34, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Trona (CA), 19 miles off.
34Good
- Ozone34Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)10Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 33, good.
GoodModerate
- 33YesterdayOct 15
- 40TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Mengel 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 Mengel Pass, the next 41 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
- 4,313 ft
- County
- Inyo County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 35.9005° N
- Longitude
- 117.0820° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Mengel Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 19.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/37.3 mi away/2,283 ft/2,030 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW8927EW8927
In a volunteer observer's own ground/37.8 mi away/2,271 ft/2,042 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
N.American Chemical Corp. Main PlantTNAC1
At a cooperative observer's station/19.7 mi away/1,772 ft/2,541 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Ridgecrest 1.2 SECA-KN-40
In a volunteer observer's own ground/37.0 mi away/2,261 ft/2,052 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 N.American Chemical Corp. Main Plant (TNAC1), 19.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
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Near Mengel Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Valley Wellscommunity, 14 mi
- Homewood Canyoncommunity, 17 mi
- Tronacommunity, 17 mi
- Searles Valleycommunity, 18 mi
- Darwincommunity, 38 mi
- Ridgecrestcity, 38 mi
- Furnace Creekcommunity, 40 mi
- Ridgecrest Heightscommunity, 40 mi
- China Lake Acrescommunity, 42 mi
- Inyokerncommunity, 45 mi
- Pearsonvillecommunity, 45 mi
- Shoshonecommunity, 46 mi
Mountain passes near Mengel Pass
- Manly Pass11 mi
- Wingate Pass11 mi
- Panamint Pass14 mi
- Layton Pass16 mi
- Jubilee Pass28 mi
- Emigrant Pass30 mi
- Towne Pass36 mi
- Salsberry Pass37 mi