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temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Nevada/Sheep Pass
Sheep Pass, Nevada
Mountain pass in Washoe County, Nevada, at 5,143 ft46°
73°/36°
Clear·
Feels like 44°·Light breeze 4 mph NNE
Now. Sheep Pass is 46° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 21°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 35° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Sunday, near 72°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 55°. Rain is possible Wednesday (34%). The first freeze could come Wednesday, a low of 32°.
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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
15Air quality
37%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
46feels44
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
7336
UV 6
Fri
Oct 16
7135
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
7138
mostly clear day
Sun
Oct 18
7237
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6737
15mph
Tue
Oct 20
5735
26%
Wed
Oct 21
5532
34%
46°
73°36°
71°35°
71°38°
72°37°
67°37°
57°35°
55°32°
As of 11:00 PM in Sheep Pass, Nevada.
Air quality
The air at Sheep Pass
Index 15, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Fernley (NV), 50 miles off.
15Good
- Ozone15Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 30, good.
GoodModerate
- 30YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sheep 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 Sheep 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
- 5,143 ft
- County
- Washoe County
- State
- Nevada
- Latitude
- 40.3007° N
- Longitude
- 119.5180° W
What is measuring near here
The 3 instruments nearest Sheep Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 24.1 miles away.
measured now1 instrument
measured daily2 instruments
SutcliffeQ63
At a cooperative observer's station/24.6 mi away/3,900 ft/1,243 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Nixon 0.3 NWNV-WH-163
In a volunteer observer's own ground/33.2 mi away/3,900 ft/1,243 ft below 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.
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Near Sheep Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Empirecommunity, 21 mi
- Sutcliffecommunity, 25 mi
- Gerlachcommunity, 26 mi
- Nixoncommunity, 34 mi
- Spanish Springscommunity, 46 mi
- Wadsworthcommunity, 48 mi
- Lemmon Valleycommunity, 48 mi
- Cold Springscommunity, 49 mi
- Golden Valleycommunity, 50 mi
- Sun Valleycommunity, 50 mi
- Fernleycity, 51 mi
- Sparkscity, 54 mi
Mountain passes near Sheep Pass
- Fremont Pass7 mi
- Emerson Pass7 mi
- Astor Pass16 mi
- Sand Pass17 mi
- Scott Pass23 mi
- Juniper Pass26 mi
- Burro Mountain Pass27 mi
- Mullen Pass27 mi