SonoraWXSC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.0 mi away/2,218 ft/715 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/California/Jamestown
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Jamestown until 10 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Jamestown is 62° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 87° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 62° by 3 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 89°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 68°. Rain is possible Tuesday (38%) and Wednesday (38%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:29 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Jamestown, California.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Tuolumne County (CA), 9 miles off.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Jamestown, CaliforniaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Jamestown, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
SonoraWXSC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.0 mi away/2,218 ft/715 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW0871GW0871
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/2,532 ft/1,029 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ColumbiaO22
At an airfield/5.3 mi away/2,119 ft/616 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
At a climate reference station/35.3 mi away/6,620 ft/5,117 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
SR-219 - East of Pentecost DriveCF124
Beside a road/36.1 mi away/104 ft/1,399 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
SonoraSONC1
At a cooperative observer's station/1.8 mi away/1,726 ft/223 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Sonora 0.6 WNWCA-TM-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/1,873 ft/370 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.3 mi from Jamestown, California. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
60.8 F with a dew point of 26.6 F, 27 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 7,700 ft up.
At 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Columbia, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Sonora (SONC1), 1.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:30. 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.