Santa Barbara Botanic GardenSBVC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.6 mi away/853 ft/296 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/California/Mission Canyon
Alert. A Heat Advisory is in force for Mission Canyon until 8 PM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Mission Canyon is 74° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 45°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 69° by 4 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 93°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 67°. Rain is likely Tuesday (50%) and Wednesday (62%).
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 27% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Mission Canyon, California.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Goleta (CA), 7 miles off.
Highest moderate, Fri Oct 16, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 44, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 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 Mission Canyon, CaliforniaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Mission Canyon, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Santa Barbara Botanic GardenSBVC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.6 mi away/853 ft/296 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW5968GW5968
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/58 ft/499 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/7.6 mi away/10 ft/547 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Santa Barbara 11 W53152
At a climate reference station/9.3 mi away/18 ft/539 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
StubblefieldS2219
At a soil climate station/38.4 mi away/2,995 ft/2,438 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Santa Barbara 1.4 NCA-SB-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/349 ft/208 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Santa BarbaraSBAC1
At a cooperative observer's station/2.8 mi away/16 ft/541 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.6 mi from Mission Canyon, California. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 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 46.0 F, 62 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,000 ft up.
From the west (280 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
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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.