Weather/California/Instruments/CF150
Beside a road
RWIS network, identified by the register
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over US-395 - SR-158ReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Drawn as the kind of place it stands at. 136 instruments in California stand at one.
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Snow on the ground
Station charts
Rank 2,641 of 4,465 in California, Oct 16. The 247 rank orders a state's stations by their 247 score out of 100: how reliably they report, how accurate their readings are against a reference station, how their readings pass their checks, and how they stand against the forecast.
Station report
Drawn from the register, in the manner of the Field Book, and opened beside the plates that explain each part of it.
At 6,866 ft above sea level, 22 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 23.21 inHg and the temperature at 34.5 F.
FB-ENG-001, Fig. AAtmosphere in sectionThe whole standard atmosphere this station stands in, from the ground to the edge of space.
FB-ENG-003, Fig. CHydrostatic balanceWhy a barometer 6,866 ft up reads less: it weighs only the air above it.
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 43 degrees above the horizon at 37.90 N, and the day is 11 h 03 min long. Level ground there takes 68 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
FB-ENG-007, Fig. ARadiation budgetWhere the sunlight that reaches this ground goes once it arrives.
A road weather station, 6,866 ft above sea level. Its sensors, as its network builds them.
FB-INS-001, Fig. AWhat an instrument isA surface station taken apart: what each of these sensors is.
The instrumentWhat an instrument is FB-INS-001Stevenson screen and siting FB-INS-009
What it seesLapse rates and stability FB-ENG-005Water vapour as a gas FB-ENG-011Blizzard FB-EVT-081Ice storm FB-EVT-084Heat wave and heat dome FB-EVT-130Fire weather FB-EVT-139High wind FB-EVT-150Humidity variables FB-WAT-002Fog types FB-WAT-020
1 place reads it as one of the nearest to it.