Monitor Pass SnotelMNPC1
A snow pillow on a mountain/0.8 mi away/8,310 ft/9 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Monitor Pass
Monitor Pass, California
Mountain pass in Alpine County, California, at 8,301 ft* WHAT...East winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph and waves 2 to 3 feet for Lake Tahoe. * WHERE...Greater Lake Tahoe Area. * WHEN...From 7 PM Thursday to 2 AM PDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Gusty winds and rough waves on area lakes will create hazardous conditions for small craft.
Check lake conditions before heading out and be prepared for a sudden increase in winds and wave heights. Consider postponing boating activities on the lake until a day with less wind.
42°
63°/31°
Clear·
Feels like 39°·Light breeze 5 mph ENE
Alert. A Lake Wind Advisory is in force for Monitor Pass until 2 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Monitor Pass is 42° and clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-northeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 28° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 66°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 43°. Rain is likely Tuesday (62%) and Wednesday (52%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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
8Air quality
37%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
42feels39
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
6331
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
6428
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6632
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6432
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
5732
13mph
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
4626
62%
Wed
Oct 21
4324
52%
42°
63°31°
64°28°
66°32°
64°32°
57°32°
46°26°
43°24°
As of 10:00 PM in Monitor Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Monitor Pass
Index 8, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, South Lake Tahoe (CA), 27 miles off.
8Good
- Coarse particles (PM10)8Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 6, good.
GoodModerate
- 6YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Monitor Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.02in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Monitor Pass, the next 44 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
- 8,301 ft
- County
- Alpine County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 38.6755° N
- Longitude
- 119.6205° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Monitor Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Beside a road/24.0 mi away/7,382 ft/919 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW3758EW3758
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.9 mi away/6,279 ft/2,022 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/25.2 mi away/6,263 ft/2,038 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Bodie HillsS2215
At a soil climate station/39.0 mi away/7,825 ft/476 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Walker 1.2 NECA-MN-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.8 mi away/5,640 ft/2,661 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BridgeportBPTC1
At a cooperative observer's station/35.8 mi away/6,463 ft/1,838 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in California
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Monitor Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Topazcommunity, 6 mi
- Colevillecommunity, 8 mi
- Markleevillecommunity, 10 mi
- Alpine Villagecommunity, 12 mi
- Walkercommunity, 14 mi
- Mesa Vistacommunity, 14 mi
- Kirkwoodsurveyed ski area, 24 mi
- Kirkwoodcommunity, 24 mi
- Meyerscommunity, 24 mi
- Heavenlysurveyed ski area, 25 mi
- Snow Valleyski area, 26 mi
- South Lake Tahoecity, 26 mi
Mountain passes near Monitor Pass
- Ebbetts Pass14 mi
- Wolf Creek Pass15 mi
- Armstrong Pass19 mi
- Luther Pass19 mi
- Carson Pass20 mi
- Saint Marys Pass23 mi
- Sonora Pass24 mi
- Johnson Pass24 mi