GalenaGALN2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.5 mi away/6,171 ft/2,976 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Nevada/Contact Pass
Contact Pass, Nevada
Mountain pass in Washoe County, Nevada, at 9,147 ft38°
61°/29°
Clear·
Feels like 34°·Light breeze 5 mph ESE
Now. Contact Pass is 38° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 15°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 5 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 64°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 44°. Rain is likely Tuesday (53%) and Wednesday (52%). Rain is possible Thursday (34%). The first freeze could come Tuesday, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:22 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
42Air quality
39%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
38feels34
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
6129
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6437
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6337
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
5835
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
4731
53%
Wed
Oct 21
4429
52%
Thu
Oct 22
4528
34%
38°
61°29°
64°37°
63°37°
58°35°
47°31°
44°29°
45°28°
As of 2:00 AM in Contact Pass, Nevada.
Air quality
The air at Contact Pass
Index 42, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Reno-Sparks (NV), 12 miles off.
42Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)42Good15.9 mi
- Ozone40Good17 ppb15.9 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)30Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 37, good.
GoodModerate
- 37YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
- GoodMonOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Contact 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 Contact Pass, the next 46 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
- 9,147 ft
- County
- Washoe County
- State
- Nevada
- Latitude
- 39.3524° N
- Longitude
- 119.8999° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Contact Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/2.6 mi away/8,806 ft/341 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station EW6216EW6216
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.7 mi away/4,699 ft/4,448 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Reno - TahoeRNO
At an airfield/11.4 mi away/4,413 ft/4,734 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Reno 10.7 SNV-WH-204
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.0 mi away/5,933 ft/3,214 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Incline VillageINVN2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.3 mi away/6,227 ft/2,920 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 Incline Village (INVN2), 8.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 09:20. measured daily
Elsewhere in Nevada
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Battle MountaintownCarson CitycityDiamond Peakski areaElkocityElycityFalloncityGreat Basin National ParkfeatureHendersoncityIncline VillagetownLas VegascityLaughlintownLee Canyonski areaLovelockcityMount Roseski areaPahrumptownRenocityRuby MountainsfeatureSparkscitySpring MountainsfeatureTonopahtownWest WendovertownWinnemuccacity
Near Contact Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Mount Roseski area, 1 mi
- Diamond Peakski area, 7 mi
- Incline Villagetown, 7 mi
- Washoe Valleycommunity, 8 mi
- Crystal Baycommunity, 10 mi
- Mogulcommunity, 11 mi
- Verdicommunity, 12 mi
- Renocity, 13 mi
- Virginia Citycommunity, 14 mi
- Carson Citycity, 15 mi
- Sparkscity, 15 mi
- Silver Citycommunity, 15 mi
Mountain passes near Contact Pass
- Railroad Pass18 mi
- Daggett Pass26 mi
- Sunrise Pass28 mi
- Gallagher Pass39 mi
- Mason Pass41 mi
- Mullen Pass43 mi
- Mickey Pass43 mi
- Nordyke Pass45 mi