A snow pillow on a mountain/1.9 mi away/8,582 ft/1,916 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/California/Van Sickle Bi-State Park
Now. Van Sickle Bi-State Park is 52° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the south-southeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 75° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 77°, and the coolest Monday, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come Monday, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 3:51 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 36 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Van Sickle Bi-State Park, California.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, South Lake Tahoe (CA), 5 miles off.
Yesterday measured 9, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Wed 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Mon 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 5 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Van Sickle Bi-State Park, 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 snow pillow on a mountain/1.9 mi away/8,582 ft/1,916 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/4.9 mi away/6,263 ft/403 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/10.5 mi away/7,382 ft/716 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW8247FW8247
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.1 mi away/5,914 ft/752 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
South Lake Tahoe 1.4 ESECA-ED-35
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/6,298 ft/368 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Tahoma CaTAAC1
At a cooperative observer's station/13.0 mi away/6,315 ft/351 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Tahoma Ca (TAAC1), 13.0 miles from here, read 5 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.