Beside a road/7.4 mi away/4,071 ft/275 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/California/Tehachapi Pass
Tehachapi Pass, California
Mountain pass in Kern County, California, at 3,796 ft* WHAT...Northeast winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 60 mph. * WHERE...Indian Wells Valley, Mojave Desert, and Mojave Desert Slopes. * WHEN...Until 10 PM PDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Highways impacted include US Highway 395, and State Routes 14, 58, and 178.
Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Use extra caution.
63°
79°/48°
Clear·
Feels like 63°·Moderate breeze 16 mph NE
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Tehachapi Pass until 10 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Tehachapi Pass is 63° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northeast at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 57° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 75°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 58°. Rain is possible Tuesday (38%) and Wednesday (48%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 36 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 27% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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
31Air quality
24%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
63feels63
16mph
Today
Oct 15
7948
28mph
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
7556
36mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7456
24mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7451
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7451
16mph
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
6247
38%
16mph
Wed
Oct 21
5842
48%
12mph
63°
79°48°
75°56°
74°56°
74°51°
74°51°
62°47°
58°42°
As of 11:00 PM in Tehachapi Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Tehachapi Pass
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Mojave (CA), 8 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)10Good-
- Ozone31Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 42, good.
GoodModerate
- 42YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Tehachapi Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 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 Tehachapi Pass, the next 43 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
- 3,796 ft
- County
- Kern County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 35.1022° N
- Longitude
- 118.2837° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Tehachapi Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
MojaveMHV
At an airfield/8.0 mi away/2,785 ft/1,011 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Tehachapi AirportTAPC1
At an airfield/9.0 mi away/4,003 ft/207 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW8620FW8620
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.9 mi away/3,962 ft/166 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Tehachapi 4 SETHPC1
At a cooperative observer's station/7.8 mi away/4,209 ft/413 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Golden Hills 0.5 NNECA-KN-35
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.9 mi away/3,809 ft/13 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
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Near Tehachapi Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Mojavecommunity, 7 mi
- Mountain Meadowscommunity, 9 mi
- Tehachapicity, 10 mi
- Golden Hillscommunity, 12 mi
- Rosamondcommunity, 18 mi
- California Citycity, 18 mi
- Stallion Springscommunity, 20 mi
- Bear Valley Springscommunity, 20 mi
- Keenecommunity, 21 mi
- Edwards AFBcommunity, 23 mi
- North Edwardscommunity, 26 mi
- Lancastercity, 30 mi
Mountain passes near Tehachapi Pass
- Oak Creek Pass7 mi
- Hamp Williams Pass16 mi
- Bird Spring Pass32 mi
- Godde Pass34 mi
- Quail Pass39 mi
- Tejon Pass39 mi
- Walker Pass41 mi
- Soledad Pass42 mi