At an airfield/2.8 mi away/26 ft/6 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/California/Fruitridge Pocket
Fruitridge Pocket, California
Community in Sacramento County, California54°
88°/55°
Clear·
Feels like 54°·Light air 3 mph N
Now. Fruitridge Pocket is 54° and clear at 8 AM. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the north at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° by 7 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. Air quality is moderate (index 53): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 87°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 68°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:32 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
53Air quality
71%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
8:00 AM
54feels54
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
8855
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
8754
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
8253
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
7050
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
6849
16%
Wed
Oct 21
7250
17%
Thu
Oct 22
7151
mostly clear day
54°
88°55°
87°54°
82°53°
70°50°
68°49°
72°50°
71°51°
As of 8:00 AM in Fruitridge Pocket, California.
Air quality
The air at Fruitridge Pocket
Index 53, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 8 AM from its reporting area, Sacramento (CA), 3 miles off.
53Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)53Moderate5 mi
- Ozone8Good3 ppb7.6 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)36Good15.9 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide17Good18 ppb5 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.3 ppm5 mi
The days ahead
Highest 54, moderate, Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 51, moderate.
GoodModerate
- 51YesterdayOct 15
- 51TodayOct 16
- 54SatOct 17
- 44SunOct 18
- 38MonOct 19
- 37TueOct 20
Smoke, the next 46 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 5 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fruitridge Pocket
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 7 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 Fruitridge Pocket, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Fruitridge Pocket, CaliforniaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Fruitridge Pocket, 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 now4 instruments
Rank1of 4,465
Citizen station DW9558DW9558
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/20 ft/12 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/3.6 mi away/36 ft/4 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.4 mi away/66 ft/34 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Sacramento 2.9 SECA-SA-86
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/34 ft/2 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sacramento 5ESESMTC1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.6 mi away/43 ft/11 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Sacramento/Executiv, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.8 mi from Fruitridge Pocket, California. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
52.0 F with a dew point of 44.0 F, 74 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,800 ft up.
The wind
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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