Oxnard - El RioELHC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.4 mi away/121 ft/28 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/California/El Rio
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for El Rio until 8 PM tomorrow. 2 more alerts are in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. El Rio is 68° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 56°, so the air feels a little humid. Gentle breeze from the north-northeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 88° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 73° by 8 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 tomorrow, near 89°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 67°. Rain is likely Tuesday (50%) and Wednesday (61%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:21 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:37 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in El Rio, California.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Oxnard (CA), 1 mile off.
Highest 61, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 43, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 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 El Rio, CaliforniaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest El Rio, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Oxnard - El RioELHC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.4 mi away/121 ft/28 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station CW4488CW4488
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/64 ft/29 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
OxnardOXR
At an airfield/3.7 mi away/43 ft/50 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Oxnard 3.7 ENECA-VT-44
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.6 mi away/69 ft/24 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OjaiOJAC1
At a cooperative observer's station/15.0 mi away/764 ft/671 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.7 mi from El Rio, California. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:51 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
67.0 F with a dew point of 63.0 F, 87 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 900 ft up.
From the west (280 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 39 mph.
The full report of Oxnard, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.