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A remote fire weather station/25.2 mi away/3,930 ft/183 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Nevada/Sand Pass
Sand Pass, Nevada
Mountain pass in Washoe County, Nevada, at 4,113 ft49°
79°/39°
Clear·
Feels like 49°·Light air 2 mph E
Now. Sand Pass is 49° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 79°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 63°. Rain is possible Tuesday (33%) and Wednesday (40%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:18 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:18 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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
12Air quality
40%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
49feels49
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
7939
13mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
7944
mostly clear day
Sun
Oct 18
7944
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
7443
14mph
Tue
Oct 20
6441
33%
Wed
Oct 21
6339
40%
Thu
Oct 22
6338
24%
49°
79°39°
79°44°
79°44°
74°43°
64°41°
63°39°
63°38°
As of 2:00 AM in Sand Pass, Nevada.
Air quality
The air at Sand Pass
Index 12, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Portola (CA), 44 miles off.
12Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)12Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 30, good.
GoodModerate
- 30YesterdayOct 15
- 33TodayOct 16
- 50SatOct 17
- 39SunOct 18
- 33MonOct 19
- 44TueOct 20
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sand 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 Sand 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
- 4,113 ft
- County
- Washoe County
- State
- Nevada
- Latitude
- 40.2182° N
- Longitude
- 119.8288° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Sand Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 22.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
RenoRTS
At an airfield/38.1 mi away/5,049 ft/936 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.9 mi away/5,112 ft/999 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
SutcliffeQ63
At a cooperative observer's station/22.1 mi away/3,900 ft/213 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Reno 22.1 NNWNV-WH-164
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.1 mi away/4,902 ft/789 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
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 Sand Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Sutcliffecommunity, 22 mi
- Empirecommunity, 35 mi
- Nixoncommunity, 37 mi
- Cold Springscommunity, 37 mi
- Gerlachcommunity, 39 mi
- Lemmon Valleycommunity, 39 mi
- Spanish Springscommunity, 40 mi
- Golden Valleycommunity, 42 mi
- Sun Valleycommunity, 43 mi
- Sparkscity, 47 mi
- Renocity, 48 mi
- Mogulcommunity, 49 mi
Mountain passes near Sand Pass
- Astor Pass2 mi
- Emerson Pass12 mi
- Scott Pass14 mi
- Sheep Pass17 mi
- Fremont Pass21 mi
- Burro Mountain Pass25 mi
- Mullen Pass26 mi
- Railroad Pass42 mi