Highland Meadow GOESHHMC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.0 mi away/8,599 ft/142 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Wolf Creek Pass
Wolf Creek Pass, California
Mountain pass in Alpine County, California, at 8,457 ft...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PDT FRIDAY DUE TO WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA... * AFFECTED AREA...Portions of Sierra Nevada and adjacent Foothills. * TIMING...Until 10 AM PDT Friday. * WINDS...Northeast to east winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts 25 to 45 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...Daytime humidity 10 to 20% with single digits possible and very poor overnight recoveries. * IMPACTS...Any fires that develop will spread rapidly. Outdoor burning is not recommended.
Please advise the appropriate officials or fire crews in the field of this Red Flag Warning.
45°
63°/33°
Clear·
Feels like 41°·Light breeze 7 mph NE
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Wolf Creek Pass until 10 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Wolf Creek Pass is 45° and clear at 8 PM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 21°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northeast at 7 mph, gusting to 22 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 32° 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 64°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 41°. Rain is likely Tuesday (59%) and Wednesday (53%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
7Air quality
24%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
8:00 PM
45feels41
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
6333
12mph
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
6432
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6434
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6133
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
5433
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
4426
59%
Wed
Oct 21
4124
53%
45°
63°33°
64°32°
64°34°
61°33°
54°33°
44°26°
41°24°
As of 8:00 PM in Wolf Creek Pass, California.
Air quality
The air at Wolf Creek Pass
Index 7, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, South Lake Tahoe (CA), 31 miles off.
7Good
- Coarse particles (PM10)7Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 6, good.
GoodModerate
- 6YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Wolf Creek 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 Wolf Creek 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
- 8,457 ft
- County
- Alpine County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 38.4988° N
- Longitude
- 119.7699° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Wolf Creek Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Beside a road/25.9 mi away/7,382 ft/1,075 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW3758EW3758
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.7 mi away/6,279 ft/2,178 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/29.9 mi away/6,263 ft/2,194 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Bodie HillsS2215
At a soil climate station/38.4 mi away/7,825 ft/632 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Walker 1.2 NECA-MN-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.6 mi away/5,640 ft/2,817 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Arnold - Calaveras Big TreesARNC1
At a cooperative observer's station/33.1 mi away/4,763 ft/3,694 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in California
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Wolf Creek Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Markleevillecommunity, 13 mi
- Colevillecommunity, 15 mi
- Snow Valleyski area, 15 mi
- Bear Valleycommunity, 15 mi
- Walkercommunity, 16 mi
- Topazcommunity, 16 mi
- Alpine Villagecommunity, 19 mi
- Kirkwoodsurveyed ski area, 20 mi
- Kirkwoodcommunity, 21 mi
- Mesa Vistacommunity, 22 mi
- Strawberrycommunity, 24 mi
- Dodge Ridgeski area, 26 mi
Mountain passes near Wolf Creek Pass
- Ebbetts Pass4 mi
- Saint Marys Pass12 mi
- Sonora Pass14 mi
- Monitor Pass15 mi
- Eagle Pass18 mi
- Carson Pass18 mi
- Brown Bear Pass21 mi
- Emigrant Pass22 mi