Forbestown - PgeFBSC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.2 mi away/2,825 ft/66 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/California/Forbestown
Forbestown, California
Community in Butte County, California...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PDT THIS MORNING DUE TO WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA... * AFFECTED AREA...Portions of central and northern California. * TIMING...Until 10 AM PDT this morning. * 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.
61°
88°/64°
Clear·
Feels like 61°·Moderate breeze 14 mph ENE
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Forbestown until 10 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Forbestown is 61° and clear at 9 AM. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the east-northeast at 14 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 83° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 58° 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 82°, and the coolest Thursday, near 62°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:27 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
1UV Low
43Air quality
22%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
9:00 AM
61feels61
14mph
Today
Oct 16
8864
16mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
8258
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
7857
clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6653
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
6448
26%
Wed
Oct 21
6549
28%
Thu
Oct 22
6248
22%
61°
88°64°
82°58°
78°57°
66°53°
64°48°
65°49°
62°48°
As of 9:00 AM in Forbestown, California.
Air quality
The air at Forbestown
Index 43, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 AM from its reporting area, Western Nevada County (CA), 23 miles off.
43Good
- Ozone43Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 40, good.
GoodModerate
- 40YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 5 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Forbestown
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 8 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 Forbestown, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Forbestown, CaliforniaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Forbestown, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank763of 4,465
OrovilleOVE
At an airfield/18.8 mi away/190 ft/2,569 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW9947EW9947
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.4 mi away/3,172 ft/413 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/34.1 mi away/5,312 ft/2,553 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/4.4 mi away/2,049 ft/710 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Strawberry ValleySTYC1
At a cooperative observer's station/9.2 mi away/3,770 ft/1,011 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Oroville, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 18.8 mi from Forbestown, California. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 8:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
65.0 F with a dew point of 32.0 F, 29 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 7,400 ft up.
The wind
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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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Near Forbestown
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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