I-40 - Barstow Maintenance YardCF029
Beside a road/1.0 mi away/2,129 ft/174 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/California/Barstow
Now. Barstow is 68° and clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-northeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 58° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 82°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 67°. Rain is possible Wednesday (49%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 26 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:32 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Barstow, California.
Air quality
Index 35, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Barstow (CA), 0 miles off.
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by nitrogen dioxide. Yesterday measured 38, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Barstow, CaliforniaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Barstow, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-40 - Barstow Maintenance YardCF029
Beside a road/1.0 mi away/2,129 ft/174 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/13.2 mi away/1,926 ft/377 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
A remote fire weather station/24.3 mi away/4,639 ft/2,336 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW7419GW7419
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.8 mi away/2,901 ft/598 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Barstow Fire StationBARC1
At a fire lookout or ranger station/0.4 mi away/2,392 ft/89 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Barstow 3.0 ECA-SR-104
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/2,393 ft/90 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.2 mi from Barstow, California. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 7:50 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
71.0 F with a dew point of 36.0 F, 28 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 7,900 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of Barstow-Daggett, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Barstow Fire Station (BARC1), 0.4 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 10:00. measured daily
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.