Needles, CA Weather

San Bernardino County4:10 PM PDT34.85°N, 114.61°WElevation 495 ft
Flood Advisory until 4:15 PM Thu

Current conditions

Isolated Showers And Thunderstorms
79°
Isolated Showers And Thunderstorms
Feels like 79°
High 81°·Low 55°
WindSSW 14 mph gusts 28 mph
Humidity41%
Dew point53°
Cloud cover33%
UV index1 Low
Sunrise6:51 AM
Sunset5:56 PM

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

Forecast

10-day

  • Thursday

    Scattered rain showers before 7am, then isolated showers and thunderstorms between noon and 1pm, then scattered showers and thunderstorms between 1pm and 2pm, then isolated showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny. High near 81, with temperatures falling to around 77 in the afternoon. South wind 6 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

  • Thursday Night

    Isolated showers and thunderstorms before 11pm. Mostly clear, with a low around 55. West southwest wind 2 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

  • Friday

    Sunny, with a high near 76. North northwest wind around 3 mph.

National Weather Service forecast updated 1 day ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Isolated Showers And Thunderstorms 79°18%
  2. 5 PM Isolated Showers And Thunderstorms 77°20%
  3. 6 PM Isolated Showers And Thunderstorms 73°20%
  4. 7 PM Isolated Showers And Thunderstorms 70°20%
  5. 8 PM Isolated Rain Showers 67°20%
  6. 9 PM Isolated Rain Showers 65°20%
  7. 10 PM Isolated Rain Showers 64°20%
  8. 11 PM Mostly Clear 63°
  9. Fri12 AM Mostly Clear 62°
  10. 1 AM Mostly Clear 60°
  11. 2 AM Mostly Clear 59°
  12. 3 AM Mostly Clear 58°
  13. 4 AM Mostly Clear 57°
  14. 5 AM Mostly Clear 57°
  15. 6 AM Sunny 56°
  16. 7 AM Sunny 57°
  17. 8 AM Sunny 58°
  18. 9 AM Sunny 61°
  19. 10 AM Sunny 65°
  20. 11 AM Sunny 69°
  21. 12 PM Sunny 72°
  22. 1 PM Sunny 74°
  23. 2 PM Sunny 75°
  24. 3 PM Sunny 76°

Daily forecast

Details
  1. WedOct 21 Isolated Showers And Thunderstorms Isolated Showers And Thunderstorms18%65°88°
  2. TodayOct 22 Scattered Rain Showers then Isolated Showers And Thunderstorms Scattered Rain Showers then Isolated Showers And Thunderstorms30%55°81°
  3. FriOct 23 Sunny Sunny56°76°
  4. SatOct 24 Sunny Sunny56°78°
  5. SunOct 25 Sunny Sunny56°80°
  6. MonOct 26 Sunny Sunny57°82°
  7. TueOct 27 Sunny Sunny57°82°
  8. WedOct 28 Cloudy Cloudy63°85°
  9. ThuOct 29 Sunny Sunny64°84°

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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Sun & moon

Sunrise 6:51 AM
Sunset 5:56 PM
Daylight 11 h 5 min (−2 min 2 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 88% lit
Moonrise 3:53 PM Moonset 3:10 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Almanac

Monthly
Normal high / low87° / 62°
Record high100° (2016)
Record low41° (1919)
Wettest0.50 in (1905)
Month to date0.71 in (normal 0.15 in)

Needles Area, records since 1888. Normals 1991–2020. Data from NOAA's Regional Climate Centers (ACIS).

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Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in VEF, issued 3 hrs ago

Key Messages

* Scattered showers and thunderstorms with brief heavy rain, small hail, and lightning will remain possible through this evening.

* Drier conditions and seasonable temperatures expected this weekend and early next week.

Discussion

through next Thursday.

A large 564dm low continues to slowly meander across central California this afternoon, with a strong and deep southerly flow out ahead of it. This flow pattern has entrained some deeper surface moisture north into the region over the past couple days, and as the low moves inland today, cooler air aloft is moving in helping to add to the instability present. This is sparking a few corridors of strong thunderstorm activity again this afternoon. Deep layer shear of 40-50 knots or greater is resulting in very fast northward storm motions which is helping to limit the flood threat, but enhancing the risk of small to potentially quarter sized hail. This risk will remain present through the evening hours before instability begins to wane and the corridor of instability and wind shear shifts eastward.

By tomorrow, the low will have moved inland and begun to weaken considerably, but weak troughing will remain over head with lingering terrain driven showers possible. Conditions will continue to dry through the weekend and next week with temperatures returning to near normal.

Aviation

For Harry Reid...For the 18Z Forecast Package... Scattered showers in the vicinity of the field will persist into this evening before ending by 04Z. Initially, most of the activity is expected to be over the higher terrain west of the field, but guidance is showing a window between 22Z and 02Z when showers will have a better chance of directly impacting the field. Away from showers, winds should generally be southerly with gusts to 20 knots. However, winds may be affected by shower activity, resulting in erratic wind directions at times. An isolated thunderstorm is also not out of the question later this afternoon. Winds will diminish overnight and Friday, with speeds staying below 8 knots. CIGs should generally remain above 8kft AGL but could fall to 5kft to 6kft AGL in any showers.

For the rest of southern Nevada, northwest Arizona and southeast California...For the 18Z Forecast Package...Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms will continue to be possible across a large portion of the region this afternoon and evening, with the heaviest activity located over the eastern third. CIGs could fall as low as 5kft to 6kft AGL in and near the stronger activity, while away from precipitation, cloud bases should generally remain AOA 8kft AGL. Locally erratic winds are also likely near showers and storms. Otherwise, gusty south to west winds are expected at most regional terminals into this evening. Lighter winds will be seen overnight, with speeds falling below 10 knots in most areas.

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