Santa Ynez - Refugio Hills RAWSRHWC1
A remote fire weather station/1.4 mi away/1,399 ft/870 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Refugio Pass
Refugio Pass, California
Mountain pass in Santa Barbara County, California, at 2,269 ft73°
90°/66°
Clear·
Feels like 73°·Fresh breeze 22 mph N
Now. Refugio Pass is 73° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north at 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 73° by 4 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 86°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 64°. Rain is likely Tuesday (53%) and Wednesday (65%). Rain is possible Thursday (35%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:40 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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
12Air quality
49%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
73feels73
22mph
Today
Oct 16
9066
22mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
8671
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
8065
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7458
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
6551
53%
Wed
Oct 21
6450
65%
Thu
Oct 22
6549
35%
UV 6
73°
90°66°
86°71°
80°65°
74°58°
65°51°
64°50°
65°49°
As of 2:00 AM in Refugio Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Refugio Pass
Index 12, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Gaviota Coast (CA), 3 miles off.
12Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-5.3 mi
- Ozone-25 ppb5.3 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)12Good2.9 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 14, good.
GoodModerate
- 14YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
Smoke, the next 40 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Refugio Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 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 Refugio Pass, the next 40 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
- 2,269 ft
- County
- Santa Barbara County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 34.5336° N
- Longitude
- 120.0621° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Refugio Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station KB6OQJKB6OQJ
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.9 mi away/597 ft/1,672 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Santa YnezIZA
At an airfield/5.1 mi away/673 ft/1,596 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Santa Barbara 11 W53152
At a climate reference station/13.9 mi away/18 ft/2,251 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Cachuma LakeCCAC1
At a cooperative observer's station/5.7 mi away/715 ft/1,554 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Buellton 1.2 SECA-SB-29
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.9 mi away/365 ft/1,904 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 Refugio Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Santa Ynezcommunity, 6 mi
- Solvangcity, 6 mi
- Ballardcommunity, 8 mi
- Los Olivoscommunity, 9 mi
- Buelltoncity, 10 mi
- Goletacity, 13 mi
- University of California-Santa Barbaracommunity, 14 mi
- Isla Vistacommunity, 14 mi
- Eastern Goleta Valleycommunity, 17 mi
- Los Alamoscommunity, 19 mi
- Mission Canyoncommunity, 21 mi
- Santa Barbaracity, 21 mi
Mountain passes near Refugio Pass
- Gaviota Pass10 mi
- San Marcos Pass14 mi
- Angostura Pass21 mi
- Blue Canyon Pass29 mi
- West Casitas Pass38 mi
- East Casitas Pass40 mi
- Cuesta Pass65 mi
- Angels Pass69 mi