Mountain Rest RAWSMTQC1
A remote fire weather station/2.9 mi away/4,079 ft/1,538 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/California/Shaver Lake
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Shaver Lake until 10 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Shaver Lake is 71° and clear at 3 PM. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the west at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 53° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 77): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 72°, and the coolest Thursday, near 51°. Rain is likely Wednesday (61%). Rain is possible Tuesday (41%) and Thursday (37%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 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 14 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 PM in Shaver Lake, California.
Air quality
Index 77, moderate, led by ozone. Read at 3 PM from its reporting area, Fresno (CA), 33 miles off.
Moderate each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 66, moderate.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 11 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 11 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 6 instruments nearest Shaver Lake, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.9 miles away.
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Mountain Rest RAWSMTQC1
A remote fire weather station/2.9 mi away/4,079 ft/1,538 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ReedleyO32
At an airfield/28.2 mi away/388 ft/5,229 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
SR-41 - San Joaquin RiverCF079
Beside a road/29.2 mi away/285 ft/5,332 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW5276FW5276
In a volunteer observer's own ground/33.0 mi away/301 ft/5,316 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Auberry 1.9 WSWCA-FR-30
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.2 mi away/2,011 ft/3,606 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/15.3 mi away/2,651 ft/2,966 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 28.2 mi from Shaver Lake, California. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
88.5 F with a dew point of 22.0 F, 9 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 14,800 ft up.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Reedley, 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.