Saratoga, California (West Valley College Area)

Current Weather Conditions, Maps, and Forecasts

Saturday July 27, 2024; 3:30AM

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Current Conditions

Outside Temperature	60.5°F
Wind Chill	60.5°F
Heat Index	59.9°F
Dew Point	53.6°F
Humidity	78%
Barometer	29.854 inHg
Barometer Trend (3 hours)	-0.001 inHg
Wind	0 mph
Rain Rate	0.00 in/h
Garage Temperature	75.4°F
UV Index	0.0
Radiation	0 W/m²

Since Midnight

High Temperature Low Temperature	62.4°F at 00:41:15 60.4°F at 03:08:51
High Heat Index Low Wind Chill	62.1°F at 00:41:15 60.4°F at 03:08:51
High Humidity Low Humidity	80% at 00:20:11 76% at 02:12:05
High Dewpoint Low Dewpoint	56.1°F at 00:41:15 53.2°F at 03:08:51
High Barometer Low Barometer	29.858 inHg at 00:39:04 29.850 inHg at 02:17:03
Today's Rain	0.00 in
High Rain Rate	0.00 in/h at 00:00:01
High Wind	2 mph from 286° (WNW) at 01:45:13
Average Wind	0 mph
RMS Wind	0 mph
Vector Average Speed Vector Average Direction	0 mph N/A
High Garage Temperature Low Garage Temperature	76.0°F at 01:03:01 75.0°F at 01:47:01
High UV Low UV	0.0 at 00:00:01 0.0 at 00:00:01
High Radiation Low Radiation	0 W/m² at 00:00:01 0 W/m² at 00:00:01

Rain Year (1-Oct start)

Rain Year Total

22.41 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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Low Temperature Outlook

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High 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

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FIF array: Array ( [forecast-summary] => private_extensions/weather_parser/logs/summary-xml-2024-07-27.03:34:09 [forecast-detail] => private_extensions/weather_parser/logs/detail-xml-2024-07-27.03:34:09 [alerts-zone] => private_extensions/weather_parser/logs/final-zone-alerts-capv1p2json-2024-07-27.03:34:09 [alerts-county] => private_extensions/weather_parser/logs/final-county-alerts-capv1p2json-2024-07-27.03:34:09 ) <BR><br><h4>Contents of file: [private_extensions/weather_parser/logs/detail-xml-2024-07-27.03:34:09]</h4><BR><BR><XMP><CurlError>Error (-4) with the curl command in C executable to retrieve NDFD data.</CurlError> ERROR: In call to EDRAPI_cmd. ERROR: Error parsing incoming EDR-API JSON string: <!doctype html>


WHOOPS: 
Array
(
    [result] => ERROR 20
    [error-print-out] => forecast-detail
    [detail] => Forecast detail not expected format
    [error_type] => forecast generation
)

PARAMS: Array
(
    [latitude] => 37.263
    [longitude] => -122.003
    [placename] => Saratoga, CA
    [nws-zone] => CAZ513
    [nws-county] => CAC085
    [nws-forecast-office] => MTR
    [timezone] => America/Los_Angeles
    [avoid-percentage-icons] => 
    [ignore-cache] => 
    [logs] => 1
    [forecast-source] => soap
    [show-duplicate-alerts] => 
)

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: 6 days, 0 hours, 56 minutes
Server uptime: 6 days, 0 hours, 56 minutes
weewx v5.1.0

Sun
Start civil twilight:	05:39:05
Sunrise:	06:08:52
Transit:	13:14:32
Sunset:	20:19:42
End civil twilight:	20:49:24
Day Length:	14:11
Azimuth:	35.6°
Altitude:	-25.3°
Right ascension:	127.2°
Declination:	19.0°
Equinox:	09/22/24 05:43:32
Solstice:	12/21/24 01:20:20

Moon
Rise:	00:09:48
Transit:	06:25:32
Set:	13:22:35
Duration Seen:	13:13
Azimuth:	113.0°
Altitude:	43.4°
Right ascension:	24.1°
Declination:	11.0°
New moon:	08/04/24 04:12:58
Full moon:	08/19/24 11:25:44
Phase:	Last quarter (58% 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.