Crabtree MeadowCBTC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.4 mi away/10,856 ft/1,663 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Sheep Pass (historical)
Sheep Pass (historical), California
Mountain pass in Inyo County, California, at 12,519 ft30°
55°/26°
Clear·
Feels like 21°·Gentle breeze 11 mph N
Now. Sheep Pass (historical) is 30° and clear at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 21°. The dew point is 18°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 28° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 55°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 35°. Rain is likely Tuesday (59%) and Wednesday (75%). Rain is possible Thursday (48%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 26°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:16 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 16 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
5Air quality
15%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
30feels21
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5526
16mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
5526
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
5326
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
5125
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
4222
59%
Wed
Oct 21
3518
75%
Thu
Oct 22
3615
48%
UV 6
30°
55°26°
55°26°
53°26°
51°25°
42°22°
35°18°
36°15°
As of 4:00 AM in Sheep Pass (historical), California.
Air quality
The air at Sheep Pass (historical)
Index 5, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Lone Pine (CA), 13 miles off.
5Good
- Coarse particles (PM10)5Good18 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 7, good.
GoodModerate
- 7YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 44 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sheep Pass (historical)
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 3 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 Sheep Pass (historical), the next 44 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
- 12,519 ft
- County
- Inyo County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 36.6166° N
- Longitude
- 118.3009° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Sheep Pass (historical), how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Alabama HillsS2237
At a soil climate station/9.9 mi away/5,230 ft/7,289 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Lone PineO26
At an airfield/14.1 mi away/3,688 ft/8,831 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US-395 - Sage FlatCF152
Beside a road/33.6 mi away/3,959 ft/8,560 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Independence 0.2 NNWCA-IN-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.2 mi away/3,914 ft/8,605 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ash MountainASHC1
At a cooperative observer's station/30.4 mi away/1,650 ft/10,869 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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 Sheep Pass (historical)
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Sierra Nevadafeature, 3 mi
- Mount Whitneyfeature, 3 mi
- Lone Pinecommunity, 13 mi
- Independencecommunity, 14 mi
- Silver Citycommunity, 22 mi
- Keelercommunity, 25 mi
- Cartagocommunity, 26 mi
- Olanchacommunity, 29 mi
- Sequoia Crestcommunity, 35 mi
- Three Riverscommunity, 36 mi
- Cedar Slopecommunity, 36 mi
- Hartlandcommunity, 36 mi
Mountain passes near Sheep Pass (historical)
- Vacation Passunder 1 mi
- Whitney Pass4 mi
- Shepherd Pass5 mi
- Arc Pass5 mi
- Crabtree Pass5 mi
- Junction Pass6 mi
- Forester Pass7 mi
- Harrison Pass8 mi