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A snow pillow on a mountain/2.8 mi away/7,689 ft/1,138 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Phipps Pass
Phipps Pass, California
Mountain pass in El Dorado County, California, at 8,827 ft37°
61°/31°
Clear·
Feels like 32°·Light breeze 6 mph ESE
Now. Phipps Pass is 37° and clear at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 21°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 60° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° 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 tomorrow, near 62°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 42°. Rain is likely Tuesday (59%) and Wednesday (56%). Rain is possible Thursday (40%). The first freeze could come Tuesday, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:21 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:25 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
6Air quality
58%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
37feels32
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
6131
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6235
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
5934
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
5433
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
4529
59%
Wed
Oct 21
4226
56%
Thu
Oct 22
4226
40%
37°
61°31°
62°35°
59°34°
54°33°
45°29°
42°26°
42°26°
As of 6:00 AM in Phipps Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Phipps Pass
Index 6, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, South Lake Tahoe (CA), 8 miles off.
6Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-14.2 mi
- Ozone-42 ppb14.2 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good9.2 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 9, good.
GoodModerate
- 9YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Phipps Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. 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 Phipps Pass, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 11 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 8,827 ft
- County
- El Dorado County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 38.9602° N
- Longitude
- 120.1419° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Phipps Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/9.1 mi away/6,263 ft/2,564 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW3758EW3758
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.4 mi away/6,279 ft/2,548 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/11.8 mi away/7,382 ft/1,445 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Tahoma .5 SCA-ED-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.9 mi away/6,316 ft/2,511 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Tahoma CaTAAC1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.9 mi away/6,315 ft/2,512 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Tahoma Ca (TAAC1), 6.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in California
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Phipps Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Tahomacommunity, 7 mi
- Homewoodski area, 9 mi
- South Lake Tahoecity, 9 mi
- Meyerscommunity, 10 mi
- Sierra-at-Tahoeski area, 11 mi
- Heavenlysurveyed ski area, 11 mi
- Sunnyside-Tahoe Citycommunity, 13 mi
- Dollar Pointcommunity, 16 mi
- Palisades Tahoesurveyed ski area, 17 mi
- Cedar Flatcommunity, 17 mi
- Kirkwoodcommunity, 19 mi
- Carnelian Baycommunity, 19 mi
Mountain passes near Phipps Pass
- Dicks Pass4 mi
- Rockbound Pass5 mi
- Mosquito Pass6 mi
- Barker Pass9 mi
- Johnson Pass11 mi
- Armstrong Pass15 mi
- Luther Pass16 mi
- Carson Pass20 mi