Sacramento River -Balls Ferry BridgeBSFC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.5 mi away/544 ft/70 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/California/Lake California
Now. Lake California is 62° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 92° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 55° 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 88°, and the coolest Monday, near 69°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:28 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Lake California, California.
Air quality
Index 25, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Red Bluff (CA), 13 miles off.
Yesterday measured 35, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 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 Lake California, CaliforniaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Lake California, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Sacramento River -Balls Ferry BridgeBSFC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.5 mi away/544 ft/70 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/10.5 mi away/502 ft/28 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
ObrienCF167
Beside a road/30.7 mi away/1,388 ft/914 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
French GulchS2218
At a soil climate station/34.3 mi away/3,704 ft/3,230 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Cottonwood 4.4 ESECA-TH-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/567 ft/93 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Cottonwood FisheriesCFSC1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.8 mi away/438 ft/36 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.5 mi from Lake California, California. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
59.0 F with a dew point of 34.0 F, 39 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,700 ft up.
From the north (360 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 mph.
The full report of Redding Municipal, 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.