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A remote fire weather station/6.4 mi away/4,695 ft/6,623 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Sawmill Pass
Sawmill Pass, California
Mountain pass in Inyo County, California, at 11,318 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.
40°
58°/29°
Clear·
Feels like 32°·Moderate breeze 14 mph NNW
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Sawmill Pass until 10 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Sawmill Pass is 40° and clear at 8 PM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 23°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 14 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 29° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 55°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 35°. Rain is likely Tuesday (62%) and Wednesday (70%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:30 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
8Air quality
17%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
8:00 PM
40feels32
14mph
Today
Oct 15
5829
16mph
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
5529
14mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5529
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
5530
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
5228
12mph
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
4124
62%
Wed
Oct 21
3520
70%
40°
58°29°
55°29°
55°29°
55°30°
52°28°
41°24°
35°20°
As of 8:00 PM in Sawmill Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Sawmill Pass
Index 8, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Lone Pine (CA), 25 miles off.
8Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)-19.4 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)8Good19.4 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 8, good.
GoodModerate
- 8YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 46 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sawmill Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 7 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 Sawmill Pass, the next 46 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
- 11,318 ft
- County
- Inyo County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 36.8830° N
- Longitude
- 118.3644° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Sawmill Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Alabama HillsS2237
At a soil climate station/25.5 mi away/5,230 ft/6,088 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Lone PineO26
At an airfield/26.8 mi away/3,688 ft/7,630 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Independence 0.2 NNWCA-IN-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.5 mi away/3,914 ft/7,404 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Bishop CreekASDC1
At a cooperative observer's station/27.2 mi away/8,750 ft/2,568 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 Bishop Creek (ASDC1), 27.2 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
Elsewhere in California
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Sawmill Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Independencecommunity, 11 mi
- Big Pinecommunity, 20 mi
- Sierra Nevadafeature, 21 mi
- Mount Whitneyfeature, 21 mi
- Lone Pinecommunity, 26 mi
- Wilkersoncommunity, 26 mi
- Silver Citycommunity, 33 mi
- West Bishopcommunity, 33 mi
- Bishopcity, 33 mi
- Wilsoniacommunity, 34 mi
- Dixon Lane-MeadowCreekcommunity, 35 mi
- Hartlandcommunity, 36 mi
Mountain passes near Sawmill Pass
- Baxter Pass3 mi
- Pinchot Pass5 mi
- Glen Pass7 mi
- Taboose Pass8 mi
- Kearsarge Pass8 mi
- Gardiner Pass9 mi
- Cartridge Pass9 mi
- Mather Pass12 mi