Beside a road/4.7 mi away/4,071 ft/773 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/California/Oak Creek Pass
Oak Creek Pass, California
Mountain pass in Kern County, California, at 4,844 ftRed Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
* 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.
61°
70°/51°
Clear·
Feels like 61°·Moderate breeze 16 mph ENE
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Oak Creek Pass until 10 PM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Oak Creek Pass is 61° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the east-northeast at 16 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 69° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° 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 Sunday, near 70°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 53°. Rain is likely Wednesday (51%). Rain is possible Tuesday (41%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 26 mph. Frost is possible Thursday morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:31 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
32Air quality
33%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
61feels61
16mph
Today
Oct 16
7051
36mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6951
26mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7046
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7046
14mph
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
5742
41%
15mph
Wed
Oct 21
5337
51%
12mph
Thu
Oct 22
5434
25%
14mph
UV 6
61°
70°51°
69°51°
70°46°
70°46°
57°42°
53°37°
54°34°
As of 12:00 AM in Oak Creek Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Oak Creek Pass
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Mojave (CA), 13 miles off.
32Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)8Good-
- Ozone32Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)7Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 42, good.
GoodModerate
- 42YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 42 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Oak Creek 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 Oak Creek 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
- 4,844 ft
- County
- Kern County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 35.0605° N
- Longitude
- 118.3881° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Oak Creek Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Tehachapi AirportTAPC1
At an airfield/5.8 mi away/4,003 ft/841 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
TehachapiTSP
At an airfield/5.9 mi away/4,001 ft/843 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW8620FW8620
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.0 mi away/3,962 ft/882 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Tehachapi 4 SETHPC1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.4 mi away/4,209 ft/635 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Golden Hills 0.5 NNECA-KN-35
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.3 mi away/3,809 ft/1,035 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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 Oak Creek Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Mountain Meadowscommunity, 5 mi
- Tehachapicity, 6 mi
- Golden Hillscommunity, 8 mi
- Mojavecommunity, 12 mi
- Stallion Springscommunity, 14 mi
- Bear Valley Springscommunity, 16 mi
- Rosamondcommunity, 18 mi
- Keenecommunity, 18 mi
- California Citycity, 24 mi
- Lake Hughescommunity, 27 mi
- Arvincity, 27 mi
- Edwards AFBcommunity, 27 mi
Mountain passes near Oak Creek Pass
- Tehachapi Pass7 mi
- Hamp Williams Pass20 mi
- Godde Pass32 mi
- Quail Pass33 mi
- Tejon Pass33 mi
- Bird Spring Pass37 mi
- Soledad Pass41 mi
- Basket Pass43 mi