Beside a road/2.2 mi away/5,488 ft/753 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/Nevada/Potosi Pass
Potosi Pass, Nevada
Mountain pass in Clark County, Nevada, at 6,241 ft* WHAT...Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 50 mph expected. * WHERE...Southern Owens Valley, Northwest Plateau, Hualapai Mountains, Northwest Deserts, Death Valley National Park, Western Clark and Southern Nye County, Sheep Range, and Spring Mountains-Red Rock Canyon. * WHEN...Until 11 AM PDT /11 AM MST/ Friday. * IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Use extra caution.
52°
62°/48°
Clear·
Feels like 52°·Moderate breeze 17 mph NE
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Potosi Pass until 11 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Potosi Pass is 52° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northeast at 17 mph, gusting to 45 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 62° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 49° 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 Monday, near 60°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 50°. Rain is likely Wednesday (55%). Rain is possible Tuesday (47%) and Thursday (35%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:05 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:16 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
34Air quality
31%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
52feels52
17mph
Today
Oct 16
6248
23mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5947
partly cloudy day
Sun
Oct 18
5946
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
6046
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
5546
47%
Wed
Oct 21
5040
55%
Thu
Oct 22
5037
35%
52°
62°48°
59°47°
59°46°
60°46°
55°46°
50°40°
50°37°
As of 1:00 AM in Potosi Pass, Nevada.
Air quality
The air at Potosi Pass
Index 34, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Jean (NV), 17 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)13Good-
- Ozone34Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)11Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 38, good.
GoodModerate
- 38YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Potosi Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.01 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.01in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Potosi Pass, the next 41 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
- 6,241 ft
- County
- Clark County
- State
- Nevada
- Latitude
- 35.9889° N
- Longitude
- 115.5261° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Potosi Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Mountain Spring RAWSMTSN2
A remote fire weather station/2.9 mi away/5,466 ft/775 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Lovell SummitS2146
At a soil climate station/13.1 mi away/6,582 ft/341 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Las Vegas - Harry Reid IntlLAS
At an airfield/21.1 mi away/2,175 ft/4,066 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW5484GW5484
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.9 mi away/3,000 ft/3,241 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Spring Mtn Rnch Red Rock Canyon S.P.RRCN2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.6 mi away/3,760 ft/2,481 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Las Vegas 13.5 SSWNV-CK-99
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.6 mi away/2,861 ft/3,380 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Nevada
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Potosi Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Blue Diamondcommunity, 8 mi
- Goodspringscommunity, 12 mi
- Sandy Valleycommunity, 13 mi
- Summerlin Southcommunity, 15 mi
- Spring Valleycommunity, 16 mi
- Enterprisecommunity, 17 mi
- Mount Charlestoncommunity, 20 mi
- Spring Mountainsfeature, 21 mi
- Paradisecommunity, 24 mi
- Lee Canyonski area, 24 mi
- Winchestercommunity, 24 mi
- Las Vegascity, 24 mi
Mountain passes near Potosi Pass
- Cottonwood Pass5 mi
- Wilson Pass8 mi
- Columbia Pass12 mi
- Crystal Pass14 mi
- Stateline Pass24 mi
- Beer Bottle Pass25 mi
- McCullough Pass27 mi
- Dutchman Pass31 mi