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Beside a road/10.6 mi away/2,129 ft/907 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/California/Pickhandle Pass
Pickhandle Pass, California
Mountain pass in San Bernardino County, California, at 3,036 ft73°
83°/55°
Clear·
Feels like 73°·Fresh breeze 22 mph ENE
Now. Pickhandle Pass is 73° and clear at 11 AM. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the east-northeast at 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 79° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 56° by 7 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 78°, and the coolest Thursday, near 63°. Rain is likely Wednesday (54%). Rain is possible Thursday (34%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:11 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
5UV Moderate
35Air quality
21%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
11:00 AM
73feels73
22mph
Today
Oct 16
8355
24mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7756
14mph
Sun
Oct 18
7654
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7856
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7354
19%
17mph
Wed
Oct 21
6550
54%
Thu
Oct 22
6347
34%
73°
83°55°
77°56°
76°54°
78°56°
73°54°
65°50°
63°47°
As of 11:00 AM in Pickhandle Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Pickhandle Pass
Index 35, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 AM from its reporting area, Barstow (CA), 11 miles off.
35Good
- Ozone35Good40 ppb11.2 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)15Good11.2 mi
The days ahead
Highest 53, moderate, Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 40, good.
GoodModerate
- 40YesterdayOct 15
- 45TodayOct 16
- 53SatOct 17
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 5 AM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Pickhandle Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 10 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 Pickhandle Pass, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 3,036 ft
- County
- San Bernardino County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 35.0164° N
- Longitude
- 116.8978° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Pickhandle Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 10.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/12.9 mi away/1,926 ft/1,110 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
A remote fire weather station/34.0 mi away/4,639 ft/1,603 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Barstow Fire StationBARC1
At a fire lookout or ranger station/11.4 mi away/2,392 ft/644 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Barstow 3.0 ECA-SR-104
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.4 mi away/2,393 ft/643 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 Barstow Fire Station (BARC1), 11.4 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 10:00. measured daily
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Near Pickhandle Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Yermocommunity, 9 mi
- Barstowcity, 11 mi
- Lenwoodcommunity, 15 mi
- Fort Irwincommunity, 20 mi
- Silver Lakescommunity, 32 mi
- Apple Valleytown, 40 mi
- Lucerne Valleycommunity, 40 mi
- Spring Valley Lakecommunity, 42 mi
- Boroncommunity, 43 mi
- Victorvillecity, 44 mi
- Mountain View Acrescommunity, 44 mi
- Adelantocity, 45 mi
Mountain passes near Pickhandle Pass
- Granite Pass34 mi
- Avawatz Pass43 mi
- Gays Pass44 mi
- Layton Pass48 mi
- Wingate Pass51 mi
- Noble Pass55 mi
- Old Ibex Pass56 mi
- Cajon Pass56 mi