HillcrestHLCC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.6 mi away/3,471 ft/1,243 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/California/Montgomery Creek
Now. Montgomery Creek is 54° and clear at 6 AM. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 87° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° 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 85°, and the coolest Monday, near 67°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:25 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 6:00 AM in Montgomery Creek, California.
Air quality
Index 36, good, led by ozone. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Redding (CA), 31 miles off.
Yesterday measured 35, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 4 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 Montgomery Creek, CaliforniaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Montgomery Creek, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
HillcrestHLCC1
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.6 mi away/3,471 ft/1,243 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Hatchet MtnCD010
Beside a road/8.1 mi away/4,373 ft/2,145 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/30.2 mi away/502 ft/1,726 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
French GulchS2218
At a soil climate station/33.3 mi away/3,704 ft/1,476 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Pitt River Ph 5PRPC1
At a cooperative observer's station/10.7 mi away/1,470 ft/758 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Whitmore 4.1 NNECA-SH-67
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.3 mi away/2,693 ft/465 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 30.2 mi from Montgomery Creek, California. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:53 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 4,800 ft up.
Calm.
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.