Alta Sierra, CA Weather

Kern County3:44 PM PDT35.73°N, 118.55°WElevation 5,719 ft
Flood Advisory until 5:15 PM Fri

Current conditions

Chance Light Rain
47°
Chance Light Rain
Feels like 46°
High 48°·Low 40°
WindW 5 mph gusts 13 mph
Humidity100%
Dew point47°
Cloud cover57%
UV index3 Moderate
Sunrise7:09 AM
Sunset6:10 PM

Forecast for this hour (no station report in the last two hours)

Forecast

10-day

  • Friday

    A chance of rain before 5pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 48. West northwest wind 0 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.

  • Friday Night

    Mostly clear, with a low around 40. North wind 5 to 10 mph.

  • Saturday

    Sunny, with a high near 56. South wind 0 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

National Weather Service forecast updated 1 day ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Chance Light Rain 47°28%
  2. 4 PM Chance Light Rain 47°28%
  3. 5 PM Mostly Sunny 48°
  4. 6 PM Partly Cloudy 46°
  5. 7 PM Partly Cloudy 45°
  6. 8 PM Partly Cloudy 45°
  7. 9 PM Partly Cloudy 43°
  8. 10 PM Partly Cloudy 43°
  9. 11 PM Mostly Clear 43°
  10. Sat12 AM Mostly Clear 43°
  11. 1 AM Mostly Clear 42°
  12. 2 AM Mostly Clear 42°
  13. 3 AM Mostly Clear 42°
  14. 4 AM Mostly Clear 41°
  15. 5 AM Mostly Clear 42°
  16. 6 AM Sunny 40°
  17. 7 AM Sunny 40°
  18. 8 AM Sunny 41°
  19. 9 AM Sunny 44°
  20. 10 AM Sunny 47°
  21. 11 AM Sunny 51°
  22. 12 PM Sunny 53°
  23. 1 PM Sunny 55°
  24. 2 PM Sunny 55°

Daily forecast

Details
  1. ThuOct 22 Showers And Thunderstorms Showers And Thunderstorms75%41°47°
  2. TodayOct 23 Chance Light Rain Chance Light Rain28%40°48°
  3. SatOct 24 Sunny Sunny44°56°
  4. SunOct 25 Sunny Sunny45°59°
  5. MonOct 26 Sunny Sunny45°61°
  6. TueOct 27 Sunny Sunny46°61°
  7. WedOct 28 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny46°61°
  8. ThuOct 29 Cloudy Cloudy41°65°
  9. FriOct 30 Cloudy Cloudy39°63°

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

36
Good
Fine particles (PM2.5)

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

Forecast

  • FriGood (50)
  • SatModerate (53)

Bakersfield, 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 7:09 AM
Sunset 6:10 PM
Daylight 11 h 1 min (−2 min 6 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 94% lit
Moonrise 4:35 PM Moonset 4:28 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Nearby

Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in HNX, issued 5 hrs ago

Key Messages

1. A slight chance for light precipitation remains in the Sierra Nevada until Friday evening as the storm system moves east.

2. Dry conditions and seasonal temperature normals prevail before another trough moves into the Pacific Northwest next week.

Discussion

Time for your favorite part of the day, reading the Area Forecast Discussion (with some sarcasm)! Wowza, it got wettt outside the last couple of days, huh? Our cars and vegetation definitely needed it. Why pay for a carwash when Mother Nature has our back! As the storm moves eastward, lingering showers are possible in the Sierra Nevadas through this evening, with the 90th percentile being around an inch. Now, usually after rain events like this in late Fall and in Winter comes that gloomy ominous fog right? Since it is still October, thereth existeth too much sunlight and warmth for fog to develop, so visibility is expected to remain clear in the Valley.

The upper level trough itself does remain over our area until Saturday, keeping cool Valley temperatures below 75 today and tomorrow, before warming to the upper 70s Sunday and Monday. This is due to a very weak high pressure ridge briefly centering over our area, though models indicate another trough moving into the Pacific Northwest scaring away the ridge. Move along ridge, you scaredy cat! With this trough, some extra cooling is expected to occur, with temperatures across the Valley dropping into the mid to low 70s. Minimum temperatures expected to be between mid 40s to low 50s across the Valley and Desert. Perfect short sleeves weather!

Although uncertainty remains, models indicate that the trough next week strengthens and moves into our area around Halloween spooky time. A spooky trough over us on spooky day? Terrifying! There is currently a slight chance for precipitation to return around this time. We shalleth monitor this, and hope it does not spoil trick or treating plans. I want some candy!

Aviation

IFR and mountain obscurations with showers over the Sierra Nevada and the Kern County mountains from 20Z Fri to 00Z Saturday. Otherwise, VFR conditions will prevail for the next 24 hours.

Air Quality Issues

None.

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