A remote fire weather station/3.5 mi away/3,589 ft/903 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/California/Challenge-Brownsville
Challenge-Brownsville, California
Community in Yuba County, California...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PDT FRIDAY DUE TO WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA... * AFFECTED AREA...Portions of Sierra Nevada and adjacent Foothills. * TIMING...Until 10 AM PDT Friday. * WINDS...Northeast to east winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts 25 to 45 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...Daytime humidity 10 to 20% with single digits possible and very poor overnight recoveries. * IMPACTS...Any fires that develop will spread rapidly. Outdoor burning is not recommended.
Please advise the appropriate officials or fire crews in the field of this Red Flag Warning.
73°
88°/60°
Clear·
Feels like 73°·Moderate breeze 15 mph ENE
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Challenge-Brownsville until 10 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Challenge-Brownsville is 73° and clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the east-northeast at 15 mph, gusting to 28 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 64° by 8 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 87°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 61°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. 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 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
37Air quality
16%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
73feels73
15mph
Today
Oct 15
8860
17mph
UV 6
Fri
Oct 16
8764
16mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
8157
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
7757
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6551
10%
Tue
Oct 20
6146
26%
Wed
Oct 21
6347
27%
73°
88°60°
87°64°
81°57°
77°57°
65°51°
61°46°
63°47°
As of 10:00 PM in Challenge-Brownsville, California.
Air quality
The air at Challenge-Brownsville
Index 37, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Western Nevada County (CA), 20 miles off.
37Good
- Ozone37Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 40, good.
GoodModerate
- 40YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Challenge-Brownsville
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 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 Challenge-Brownsville, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Challenge-Brownsville, CaliforniaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Challenge-Brownsville, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank533of 4,465
OrovilleOVE
At an airfield/19.0 mi away/190 ft/2,496 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW9947EW9947
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.4 mi away/3,172 ft/486 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/32.4 mi away/5,312 ft/2,626 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Challenge-Brownsville 1.3 WSWCA-YB-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.9 mi away/2,049 ft/637 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/9.7 mi away/591 ft/2,095 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Oroville, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.0 mi from Challenge-Brownsville, California. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 8:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
87.0 F with a dew point of 28.0 F, 12 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 13,200 ft up.
The wind
From the east northeast (70 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 23 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 26 mph.
The full report of Oroville, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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