Uhl RAWSUHLC1
A remote fire weather station/7.0 mi away/3,775 ft/3,567 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Portuguese Pass
Portuguese Pass, California
Mountain pass in Tulare County, California, at 7,342 ft* 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.
54°
71°/41°
Clear·
Feels like 54°·Gentle breeze 10 mph ENE
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Portuguese Pass until 10 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Portuguese Pass is 54° and clear at 9 AM. The dew point is 22°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east-northeast at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 69° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 6 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. Air quality is moderate (index 80): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 68°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 47°. Rain is likely Wednesday (72%). Rain is possible Tuesday (45%) and Thursday (40%). The first freeze could come Wednesday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:29 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 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
2UV Low
80Air quality
28%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
9:00 AM
54feels54
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
7141
13mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6840
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6638
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6338
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
5334
45%
Wed
Oct 21
4731
72%
Thu
Oct 22
4729
40%
UV 6
54°
71°41°
68°40°
66°38°
63°38°
53°34°
47°31°
47°29°
As of 9:00 AM in Portuguese Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Portuguese Pass
Index 80, moderate, led by coarse particles. Read at 9 AM from its reporting area, Bakersfield (CA), 39 miles off.
80Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)70Moderate-
- Ozone44Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)80Moderate-
The days ahead
Moderate each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 93, moderate.
GoodModerateSensitive groups
- 93YesterdayOct 15
- 93TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 5 AM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Portuguese Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 8 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 Portuguese Pass, the next 45 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
- 7,342 ft
- County
- Tulare County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 35.8002° N
- Longitude
- 118.5817° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Portuguese Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/30.5 mi away/456 ft/6,886 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Chimney CreekS2240
At a soil climate station/30.8 mi away/5,680 ft/1,662 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
PortervillePTV
At an airfield/31.2 mi away/436 ft/6,906 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
GlennvilleGNNC1
At a cooperative observer's station/8.4 mi away/3,228 ft/4,114 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Lake Isabella 0.7 SWCA-KN-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.6 mi away/2,518 ft/4,824 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 Glennville (GNNC1), 8.4 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:30. measured daily
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Near Portuguese Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Panorama Heightscommunity, 3 mi
- Sugarloaf Saw Millcommunity, 3 mi
- Poso Parkcommunity, 3 mi
- Sugarloaf Villagecommunity, 4 mi
- McClenney Tractcommunity, 4 mi
- Idlewildcommunity, 5 mi
- Alta Sierracommunity, 5 mi
- Poseycommunity, 6 mi
- Pine Flatcommunity, 6 mi
- California Hot Springscommunity, 7 mi
- Glennvillecommunity, 9 mi
- Kernvillecommunity, 9 mi
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