Truckee, CA 96160 Weather

Nevada County9:35 PM PDT39.33°N, 120.18°W

Current conditions

Partly Cloudy
45°
Partly Cloudy
Feels like 45°
High 60° Wednesday·Low 31° tonight
WindCalm
Humidity57%
Dew point30°
Visibility10.0 mi
Cloud cover60%
UV index0 Low
Sunrise7:16 AM
Sunset6:16 PM

Observed at Truckee-Tahoe · 40 min ago

Forecast

10-day

  • Tonight

    Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. Wind around 0 mph.

  • Wednesday

    Showers and thunderstorms after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 60. South wind 0 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

  • Wednesday Night

    Rain showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 30. West wind around 0 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

National Weather Service forecast updated 5 hrs ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Mostly Cloudy 47°
  2. 10 PM Mostly Cloudy 44°
  3. 11 PM Mostly Cloudy 42°
  4. Wed12 AM Mostly Cloudy 39°
  5. 1 AM Mostly Cloudy 37°
  6. 2 AM Mostly Cloudy 35°11%
  7. 3 AM Mostly Cloudy 34°11%
  8. 4 AM Mostly Cloudy 33°11%
  9. 5 AM Mostly Cloudy 33°10%
  10. 6 AM Mostly Cloudy 32°10%
  11. 7 AM Mostly Cloudy 32°10%
  12. 8 AM Cloudy 31°10%
  13. 9 AM Cloudy 36°10%
  14. 10 AM Cloudy 43°10%
  15. 11 AM Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 52°32%
  16. 12 PM Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 56°32%
  17. 1 PM Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 58°32%
  18. 2 PM Showers And Thunderstorms Likely 59°73%
  19. 3 PM Showers And Thunderstorms Likely 57°73%
  20. 4 PM Showers And Thunderstorms Likely 56°73%
  21. 5 PM Rain Showers 54°77%
  22. 6 PM Rain Showers 51°77%
  23. 7 PM Rain Showers 50°77%
  24. 8 PM Rain Showers 47°85%

10-day forecast

Details
  1. TonightOct 20 Mostly Cloudy Mostly Cloudy11%31°
  2. WedOct 21 Showers And Thunderstorms Showers And Thunderstorms85%30°60°
  3. ThuOct 22 Showers And Thunderstorms Showers And Thunderstorms76%27°51°
  4. FriOct 23 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny17°55°
  5. SatOct 24 Sunny Sunny19°60°
  6. SunOct 25 Sunny Sunny22°61°
  7. MonOct 26 Sunny Sunny22°60°
  8. TueOct 27 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny60°
  9. WedOct 28 Cloudy Cloudy37°65°
  10. ThuOct 29 Cloudy Cloudy35°62°

Days after the National Weather Service's seven are MET Norway's outlook, a computer model with no forecaster's review.

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Air quality

48
Good
Fine particles (PM2.5)

Air quality is satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk.

Truckee, CA reporting area · 1 hr ago. Data from AirNow (EPA and its state, local and tribal partners); preliminary and subject to change.

Sun & moon

Sunrise 7:16 AM
Sunset 6:16 PM
Daylight 10 h 59 min (−2 min 26 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 74% lit
Moonrise 3:30 PM Moonset 1:24 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Nearby

Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in REV, issued 8 hrs ago

Key Messages

* Showers with embedded lightning will arrive this afternoon and evening along the Sierra and later today over Pershing and Churchill counties.

* A slow moving storm will bring widespread wetting rains and high elevation snow to the region Wednesday and Thursday.

* Cool but mainly dry Friday into the weekend. An unsettled pattern could bring a storm or two next week.

Aviation

* TODAY: VFR conditions prevail with light easterly/southeasterly winds. Isolated showers after 21z for Sierra terminals and 00z for western Nevada terminals may cause brief periods of terrain obscuration.

* WEDNESDAY->THURSDAY: Widespread rain brings periods of MVFR/IFR conditions and terrain obscurations. Thunderstorm chances peak at 25-30% for Wednesday, dropping to 15-20% for Thursday. HRICH

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