Saratoga, California (West Valley College Area)

Current Weather Conditions, Maps, and Forecasts

Saturday April 27, 2024; 7:05AM

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Current Conditions

Outside Temperature	46.7°F
Wind Chill	46.7°F
Heat Index	45.2°F
Dew Point	43.3°F
Humidity	88%
Barometer	30.039 inHg
Barometer Trend (3 hours)	0.038 inHg
Wind	0 mph
Rain Rate	0.00 in/h
Garage Temperature	70.0°F
UV Index	0.0
Radiation	31 W/m²

Since Midnight

High Temperature Low Temperature	50.4°F at 00:07:53 45.6°F at 06:27:50
High Heat Index Low Wind Chill	49.0°F at 00:07:53 45.6°F at 06:27:50
High Humidity Low Humidity	88% at 04:03:36 81% at 00:00:03
High Dewpoint Low Dewpoint	45.1°F at 00:07:53 42.3°F at 06:27:50
High Barometer Low Barometer	30.039 inHg at 07:04:01 29.992 inHg at 03:00:01
Today's Rain	0.00 in
High Rain Rate	0.00 in/h at 00:00:03
High Wind	2 mph from 250° (WSW) at 00:30:39
Average Wind	0 mph
RMS Wind	0 mph
Vector Average Speed Vector Average Direction	0 mph N/A
High Garage Temperature Low Garage Temperature	73.4°F at 00:00:03 70.0°F at 07:02:00
High UV Low UV	0.0 at 00:00:03 0.0 at 00:00:03
High Radiation Low Radiation	33 W/m² at 06:58:12 0 W/m² at 00:00:03

Rain Year (1-Oct start)

Rain Year Total

21.54 in

Local Radar Loop

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Regional Radar Loop

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Hazard Map (from the NWS)

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Current Weather Outlook

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High Temperature Outlook

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Low Temperature Outlook

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Santa Clara County Reservoirs

ALERT Reservoir Data

California Major Reservoirs

Major Reservoir Levels

PG&E Electrical Outage Map

California Rainfall Totals

NOAA/NWS CA/NV Rainfall totals

California Snowpack Levels

California Snowpack Information

CAL FIRE Incidents

CAL Fire Active Incidents

Weather Networks We Are On

Weather Forecast

Forecast Created by Experimental Software Written By an Amateur With No Guarantee or Warranty or Promise of Accuracy Provided or Implied! Use at Your Own Risk! You Assume All Risk and Liability If You Use This Information in Any Way, For Any Purpose Whatsoever! See the Disclaimer Given Above!

raw forecast data generated on
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 06:08:04 -0700 (PDT)

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Saturday
Increasing Clouds

Hi 69 °F
Precp 6%
Increasing
Clouds

Saturday
Night
Mostly Clear

Lo 49 °F
Precp 4%
Mostly
Clear

Sunday
Mostly Sunny

Hi 71 °F
Precp 0%
Mostly
Sunny

Sunday
Night
Mostly Clear

Lo 46 °F
Precp 0%
Mostly
Clear

Monday
Sunny

Hi 71 °F
Precp 0%
Sunny

Monday
Night
Clear

Lo 46 °F
Precp 0%
Clear

Tuesday
Sunny

Hi 75 °F
Precp 0%
Sunny

Tuesday
Night
Clear

Lo 48 °F
Precp 0%
Clear

Saturday	High of 69. Mostly sunny through the day. Chance of precipitation is 6%. Humidity 86% in the morning, lowering to 46% by the afternoon. Winds are a moderate breeze, NW-N at 5-14 mph, gusting to a fresh breeze, 7-22 mph. Winds stronger in the afternoon.
Saturday Night	Low of 49. Mostly cloudy in the evening, with a bit of the overcast clearing, becoming partly cloudy after midnight. Chance of precipitation will be 4%. Humidity 50% in the evening, rising to 89% after midnight. Winds will be a moderate breeze, WNW-NNW at 6-14 mph, gusting to a fresh breeze, 10-21 mph. Winds weaker in the evening.
Sunday	High of 71. Partly cloudy in the morning, with clouds clearing, to become sunny by the afternoon. Humidity 89% in the morning, lowering to 46% by the afternoon. Winds will be a moderate breeze, WNW-NNW at 7-14 mph, gusting to a fresh breeze, 10-21 mph. Winds stronger in the afternoon.
Sunday Night	Low of 46. Clear in the evening, with a few clouds later making it mostly clear after midnight. Humidity 49% in the evening, rising to 80% after midnight. Winds will be a moderate breeze, WNW-NW at 10-15 mph, gusting to a fresh breeze, 15-23 mph.
Monday	High of 71. Mostly sunny in the morning, with any clouds clearing to become sunny by the afternoon. Humidity 83% in the morning, lowering to 42% by the afternoon. Winds will be a moderate breeze, WNW-NW at 10-14 mph, gusting to a fresh breeze, 15-21 mph.
Monday Night	Low of 46. Clear through the night. Humidity 43% in the evening, rising to 71% after midnight. Winds will be a moderate breeze, NW at 9-18 mph, gusting to a strong breeze (small-craft advisory!), 14-28 mph. Winds weaker in the evening.
Tuesday	High of 75. Sunny through the day. Humidity 83% in the morning, lowering to 47% by the afternoon. Winds will be a gentle breeze, NW at 7-12 mph, gusting to a moderate breeze, 10-17 mph.
Tuesday Night	Low of 48. Clear through the night. Humidity 38% in the evening, rising to 68% after midnight. Winds will be a moderate breeze, NW at 10-15 mph, gusting to a fresh breeze, 16-23 mph.
Wednesday	High of 77. Sunny through the day. Humidity 77% in the morning, lowering to 46% by the afternoon. Winds will be a moderate breeze, NNW at 8-14 mph, gusting to a fresh breeze, 14-21 mph.
Wednesday Night	Low of 49. Clear in the evening, with a few clouds later making it mostly clear after midnight. Humidity 37% in the evening, rising to 72% after midnight. Winds will be a moderate breeze, NW at 9-16 mph, gusting to a fresh breeze, 14-24 mph.
Thursday	High of 75. Mostly sunny through the day. Chance of precipitation will be 1%. Humidity 77% in the morning, lowering to 55% by the afternoon. Winds will be a gentle breeze, NNW at 7-9 mph, gusting to a moderate breeze, 10-14 mph.
Thursday Night	Low of 50. Mostly clear through the night. Chance of precipitation will be 2%. Humidity 42% in the evening, rising to 71% after midnight. Winds will be a moderate breeze, NW at 8-14 mph, gusting to a fresh breeze, 13-21 mph.
Friday	High of 75. Mostly sunny through the day. Chance of precipitation will be 3%. Humidity 79% in the morning, lowering to 51% by the afternoon. Winds will be a light breeze, WNW-NW at 6-7 mph, gusting to a gentle breeze, 8-10 mph.

The above Experimental Forecast used the National Weather Service's NDFD XML Feed
for Saratoga, CA
(37.263°N, 122.003°W, NWS Zone CAZ513, NWS County CAC085)

Location
Latitude:	37° 15.75' N
Longitude:	122° 00.20' W
Altitude:	376 feet

This station uses a Vantage Pro2, controlled by 'WeeWX', an experimental weather software system written in Python. Weewx was designed to be simple, fast, and easy to understand by leveraging modern software concepts.

RSS feed

Smartphone formatted

WeeWX uptime: 3 days, 4 hours, 37 minutes
Server uptime: 3 days, 4 hours, 37 minutes
weewx v5.0.2

Sun
Start civil twilight:	05:48:32
Sunrise:	06:16:43
Transit:	13:05:31
Sunset:	19:54:54
End civil twilight:	20:23:10
Day Length:	13:38
Azimuth:	78.6°
Altitude:	8.5°
Right ascension:	35.4°
Declination:	14.1°
Solstice:	06/20/24 13:51:03
Equinox:	09/22/24 05:43:32

Moon
Rise:	00:12:42
Transit:	03:48:38
Set:	08:24:05
Duration Seen:	08:11
Azimuth:	221.5°
Altitude:	10.5°
Right ascension:	257.4°
Declination:	-28.4°
New moon:	05/07/24 20:21:52
Full moon:	05/23/24 06:53:05
Phase:	Waning gibbous (87% full)

Monthly summary:
Yearly summary:

This system is powered by the open source Weewx package, authored by Tom Keffer.

This system uses the open source Purple Air extensions to Weewx package by Kenneth Baker to obtain the raw air pollutant values.

Thanks to JaneAndJohn.org for PHP-based RSS weather-feed code used in a prior iteration of this site.

Thanks to Ken True at Saratoga-Weather.org for pointers to good warning scripts, used in a prior iteration, and for being a great overall resource for scripting weather websites. Also, the idea to ignore certificate errors from the NOAA/NWS website comes from these scripts.

Thanks to Ken True at Saratoga-Weather.org and Mike Chaliss for their alerts script from which we leverage the array mapping alert event name to alert event background color, and a clever way to handle events that aren't in that mapping.

Thanks to Tom at carterlake.org for a script that caused me to want to learn how to obtain the raw data of a National Weather Service forecast, that triggered my building my own set of scripts. He has also created another great overall resource for scripting weather websites.

The raw data on which the forecasts are built, and the icons for these, come from the National Weather Service.

This system utilizes the xmlize utility written by Hans Anderson.

This system utilizes the NuSOAP package for reading SOAP data feeds, licensed under GPL v2.1 and later, by NuSphere Corporation and Dietrich Ayala. A branch created by f00b4r that supports newer PHP releases is used, and that is hosted here.

The URL used to get the alerts, and the idea to use cURL to get them (and any other needed JSON/XML data), comes from the "NWS Alerts" PHP package by Rick "Curly" at the WXForum web site.

The idea to use and how to properly invoke the xmlize library to extract information from the NWS comes from PXWeather by Jonathan M. Abbett.

If you want a copy of the current code that produces this generated-forecast information, and performs AQI calculations, as well as more open source license information for this package and the ones that it uses or has learned from, click here.