Desert Center ScanERTC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/16.8 mi away/556 ft/922 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Palen Pass
Palen Pass, California
Mountain pass in Riverside County, California, at 1,478 ft* WHAT...North winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 to 45 mph expected. * WHERE...In Arizona, Parker Valley. In California, Chuckwalla Mountains, Chuckwalla Valley, Imperial County Southeast, and Palo Verde Valley. * WHEN...From 8 PM MST /8 PM PDT/ this evening to 2 PM MST /2 PM PDT/ Friday. * IMPACTS...Difficult driving conditions, especially for larger vehicles traveling along roads with crosswinds. Light, unsecured objects may become airborne. Localized channels of blowing dust may briefly lower visibility under one mile and lots of lofted dust may create poor air quality across the area.
A Wind Advisory means that sustained wind speeds of between 30 and 40 mph are expected, or wind gusts of between 40 and 58 mph. Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. In addition, strong winds over desert areas could result in briefly lowered visibilities to well under a mile at times in blowing dust or blowing sand. Use extra caution.
74°
88°/57°
Clear·
Feels like 74°·Fresh breeze 21 mph NNE
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Palen Pass until 2 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Palen Pass is 74° and clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 41°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northeast at 21 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 64° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 88°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 75°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:27 PM. 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
31Air quality
24%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
74feels74
21mph
Today
Oct 15
8857
24mph
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
8864
20mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7964
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
8160
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
8359
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
8061
15%
15mph
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7557
18%
12mph
74°
88°57°
88°64°
79°64°
81°60°
83°59°
80°61°
75°57°
As of 9:00 PM in Palen Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Palen Pass
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Blythe (CA), 34 miles off.
31Good
- Ozone31Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 35, good.
GoodModerate
- 35YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 33 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Palen Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Palen Pass, the next 45 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
- 1,478 ft
- County
- Riverside County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 33.9203° N
- Longitude
- 115.0489° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Palen Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 16.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Desert CenterS2183
At a soil climate station/16.8 mi away/556 ft/922 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
At an airfield/28.2 mi away/397 ft/1,081 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Iron MountainIRNC1
At a cooperative observer's station/16.2 mi away/912 ft/566 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Blythe 0.4 NCA-RV-82
In a volunteer observer's own ground/33.7 mi away/278 ft/1,200 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 Iron Mountain (IRNC1), 16.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 05:30. measured daily
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Near Palen Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Desert Centercommunity, 23 mi
- Mesa Verdecommunity, 29 mi
- Blythecity, 33 mi
- Ripleycommunity, 35 mi
- Palo Verdecommunity, 39 mi
- Big Rivercommunity, 41 mi
- Bluewatercommunity, 49 mi
- Nilandcommunity, 54 mi
- Bombay Beachcommunity, 55 mi
- North Shorecommunity, 57 mi
- Twentynine Palmscity, 61 mi
- Calipatriacity, 61 mi
Mountain passes near Palen Pass
- Granite Pass13 mi
- Victory Pass25 mi
- Riverside Pass27 mi
- Clarks Pass31 mi
- Augustine Pass33 mi
- Graham Pass33 mi
- Iris Pass37 mi
- Surveyors Pass38 mi