Hunter LiggettFHLC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.1 mi away/1,089 ft/130 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/California/Lockwood
Now. Lockwood is 56° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the northeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 94° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 59° by 5 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 96°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 70°. Rain is likely Wednesday (50%). Rain is possible Tuesday (41%). Tomorrow is hot, 96°: heat is a danger to anyone outdoors for long.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:39 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 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Lockwood, California.
Air quality
Index 45, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, King City (CA), 19 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 41, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 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 Lockwood, CaliforniaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Lockwood, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Hunter LiggettFHLC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.1 mi away/1,089 ft/130 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Paso RoblesPRB
At an airfield/31.6 mi away/824 ft/135 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW3053GW3053
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.6 mi away/827 ft/132 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lockwood 0.7 NWCA-MT-55
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/1,018 ft/59 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Hearst CastleHSCC1
At a cooperative observer's station/18.4 mi away/1,611 ft/652 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 31.6 mi from Lockwood, California. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
52.0 F with a dew point of 31.0 F, 44 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,700 ft up.
From the east northeast (60 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Paso Robles, 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.