A remote fire weather station/1.7 mi away/1,204 ft/28 ft below here
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Weather/California/Val Verde
Red Flag Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Red Flag Warning is in force for Val Verde until 8 PM Saturday. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Val Verde is 78° and clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northeast at 13 mph, gusting to 43 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 63° by 7 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 89°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 67°. Rain is likely Tuesday (54%) and Wednesday (59%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:40 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Val Verde, California.
Air quality
Index 35, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Santa Clarita Vly (CA), 9 miles off.
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 45, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 11 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 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 Val Verde, CaliforniaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Val Verde, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
A remote fire weather station/1.7 mi away/1,204 ft/28 ft below here
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Citizen station EW1734EW1734
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.9 mi away/1,038 ft/194 ft below here
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At an airfield/19.2 mi away/801 ft/431 ft below here
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I-5 - GrapevineCF083
Beside a road/37.2 mi away/1,541 ft/309 ft above here
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measured daily2 instruments
Val Verde 4.1 NNECA-LA-93
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/1,300 ft/68 ft above here
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Piru 2 ESEPRUC1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.1 mi away/737 ft/495 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.2 mi from Val Verde, California. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 8:51 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
83.0 F with a dew point of 33.0 F, 17 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 11,200 ft up.
From the north northeast (30 degrees) at 8 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 46 mph.
The full report of Van Nuys Airport, 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.