Sierraville - Rice CanyonRNYC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.4 mi away/6,894 ft/1,950 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/California/Loyalton
Now. Loyalton is 46° and clear at 2 AM. The dew point is 23°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 74° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 79°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 59°. Rain is possible Tuesday (46%), Wednesday (48%) and Thursday (32%). Frost is possible Wednesday morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:20 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:22 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Loyalton, California.
Air quality
Index 12, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Portola (CA), 15 miles off.
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 30, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM.
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 Loyalton, CaliforniaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Loyalton, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Sierraville - Rice CanyonRNYC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/11.4 mi away/6,894 ft/1,950 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW9354FW9354
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.0 mi away/4,907 ft/37 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/22.6 mi away/5,830 ft/886 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/25.3 mi away/5,899 ft/955 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Loyalton 5.9 NCA-PM-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.9 mi away/4,900 ft/44 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/9.3 mi away/4,980 ft/36 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 25.3 mi from Loyalton, 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.
32.0 F with a dew point of 21.2 F, 64 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,400 ft up.
Calm.
The full report of Truckee-Tahoe, 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.