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A snow pillow on a mountain/2.8 mi away/7,689 ft/1,138 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/California/Phipps Pass
Phipps Pass, California
Mountain pass in El Dorado County, California, at 8,827 ft47°
66°/44°
Clear·
Feels like 42°·Gentle breeze 9 mph E
Now. Phipps Pass is 47° and clear at 6:15 AM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 8°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 66° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 69°, and the coolest Monday, near 64°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:44 PM. The Moon is a waning gibbous, 79% lit, and rises at 8:51 PM. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east. 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 49 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
-Air quality
20%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
6:15 AM
47feels42
now, clear
Today
Sep 30
6644
14mph
UV 6
Thu
Oct 1
6648
13mph
UV 6
Fri
Oct 2
6745
14mph
Sat
Oct 3
6946
13mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 4
6543
drizzle
Mon
Oct 5
6443
14mph
UV 6
Tue
Oct 6
6644
UV 6
47°
66°44°
66°48°
67°45°
69°46°
65°43°
64°43°
66°44°
As of 6:15 AM in Phipps Pass, California.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 8,827 ft
- County
- El Dorado County
- State
- California
- Latitude
- 38.9602° N
- Longitude
- 120.1419° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Phipps Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/9.1 mi away/6,263 ft/2,564 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/11.8 mi away/7,382 ft/1,445 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Tahoma .5 SCA-ED-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.9 mi away/6,316 ft/2,511 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Tahoma CaTAAC1
At a cooperative observer's station/6.9 mi away/6,315 ft/2,512 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Tahoma Ca (TAAC1), 6.9 miles from here, read 27 Sep, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in California
33 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Phipps Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Tahomacommunity, 7 mi
- Homewoodski area, 9 mi
- South Lake Tahoecity, 9 mi
- Meyerscommunity, 10 mi
- Sierra-at-Tahoeski area, 11 mi
- Heavenlysurveyed ski area, 11 mi
- Sunnyside-Tahoe Citycommunity, 13 mi
- Dollar Pointcommunity, 16 mi
- Palisades Tahoesurveyed ski area, 17 mi
- Cedar Flatcommunity, 17 mi
- Kirkwoodcommunity, 19 mi
- Carnelian Baycommunity, 19 mi
Mountain passes near Phipps Pass
- Dicks Pass4 mi
- Rockbound Pass5 mi
- Mosquito Pass6 mi
- Barker Pass9 mi
- Johnson Pass11 mi
- Armstrong Pass15 mi
- Luther Pass16 mi
- Carson Pass20 mi