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Summary / Temperature Wind Rain Outlook
Current  Weather: Overcast
Overcast
51.6°F Warmer 0.4°F than last hour.
Currently 51.6, Max: 51.6, Min: 49.4
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Feels Like:  52°F
24hrs Ago: 55.5°F falling arrow
24hr Diff: -3.9°F falling arrow
Temp Rate: +0.4°F falling arrow
Month High: 51.6°F
Month Low: 49.4°F
  Today Yesterday
High: 51.6°F @
10:33am
61.1°F @
1:58pm
Low: 49.4°F @
2:56am
49.9°F @
11:58pm
 Wind from NNW Wind:  NNW
0.1

Gusting to:
0.0 mph
0 Bft 3 - Calm
60-Min Avg: Calm
120-Min Avg: Calm
Max Gust Today: 3.8 mph
12:41am
Month: 3.5 mph
Apr 1
Record Gust 2/17/2025:   25.3 mph
Rain Today: 0.08 in
Rain Yesterday: 2.53 in
Season Total1: 32.35 in
Seasonal Normal: 34.97 in
Percent of Normal: 92.5 %
April Rain: 0.08 in
Rain Rate (/hr)2: 0.00 in
Rain Rate Hi (/hr)2: 0.08 in
Storm Rain2: 2.62 in
Last Rain 4/1/2026: 9:11 am
Today

Today: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm.  High near 55. South wind 6 to 8 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.  Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Showers
Hi 55 °F
Tonight

Tonight: Rain, mainly before 3am.  Low around 42. Southwest wind 3 to 7 mph.  Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Rain
Lo 42 °F
Humidity & Barometer Almanac Moon
Humidity: 93 % Decreased 1% since last hour.
Dew Point: 49.6°F Increased 0.1°F since last hour.
Barometer: 29.951 inHg Rising 0.017 °F/hr
Baro Trend: Rising slowly
Sunrise: 6:47 am
Sunset: 7:26 pm
Moonrise: 6:29 pm
Moonset: 6:26 am
FULL MOON
Full Moon, Moon at 14 days in cycle
100%
Illuminated
UV Index & Solar Last Year to Date
Live UV: 0.0    Medium 
Live Solar: 35 W/m2 (7%)
Hi 1 Year Ago: °F  
Lo 1 Year Ago: °F  

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Downtown Placerville 3-Day Forecast: Updated at 2:01 am PDT Apr 1, 2026
Today

Today: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm.  High near 55. South wind 6 to 8 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.  Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Showers
Hi 55 °F
Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High near 55. South wind 6 to 8 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Tonight

Tonight: Rain, mainly before 3am.  Low around 42. Southwest wind 3 to 7 mph.  Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Rain
Lo 42 °F
Rain, mainly before 3am. Low around 42. Southwest wind 3 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. Thursday

Thursday: A 40 percent chance of rain before 11am.  Mostly cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 59. Calm wind becoming west northwest 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
Chance Rain
then Sunny
Hi 59 °F
A 40 percent chance of rain before 11am. Mostly cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 59. Calm wind becoming west northwest 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday
Night
Thursday Night: Clear, with a low around 41. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable.
Clear
Lo 41 °F
Clear, with a low around 41. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable. Friday

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 69. East northeast wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable.
Sunny
Hi 69 °F
Sunny, with a high near 69. East northeast wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable. Friday
Night
Friday Night: Clear, with a low around 47.
Clear
Lo 47 °F
Clear, with a low around 47.
PLEASE NOTE: This forecast is for downtown Placerville, CA. & those near 1,850 ft. elevation. See "Live Panel Footnotes with Location & Forecast Info" on bottom of page for footnotes or click on a forecast location below.
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U. S. Lower 48 High & Low Temperatures of the Day
National High and Low Temperature (for the contiguous United States)
NWS Weather Prediction Center, College Park, MD
Issued 8 am EDT Wednesday, April 1, 2026

High Temperature for Tuesday, March 31, 2026
(as received by 8 am EDT April 1)
100°F at Rio Grande Village, TX

Low Temperature for Wednesday, April 1, 2026
(as received by 8 am EDT April 1)
2°F at 31 miles northeast of Forest Center, MN


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What is Live Weather & How Does it Work:

This live weather page is the original (classic) page from nearly 10 years ago. The live page has under gone many updates since then. Call us nostalgic, we wanted to include this page on our website along with all the other themed live pages.

Our outdoor wireless solar powered Davis VP2 Pro Plus weather station instruments sends weather data to an indoor weather control console that collects all of the weather data. The indoor weather control console is wired directly to the El Dorado Weather computer server. This control console sends data directly to the server which immediately uploads the data via FTP to our on line web server. The time it takes from the outdoor weather station to the web server is approximately 2 to 3 seconds. To save bandwidth we typically decrease data upload times to 15 seconds unless it is raining. If it is raining we set it to upload every 2 to 3 seconds.

When new weather data is received it updates the data on the above weather panel. You can visually see newly updated data on the weather panel when it briefly flashes the data in green for about two seconds and then returns back to normal with the updated value.

Only the data being updated will flash to green. The time of day and or date will independently flash green whenever there is a data update with the new time and date of the latest updated values.


Live Panel Footnotes with Location & Forecast Info


1 Rain season: July 1st to June 30th. We keep extraordinary precise measurements of our rainfall. All of our rainfall is backed up daily by two separate professional rain gauges that are THE standard in the weather industry. During the fall & early spring when the oak tree leaves fly in the fall or oak flowers in the spring, the main rain guage for our Davis VP Pro+ Weather Station can get plugged up with leaves, pollen & debris. We then carefully measure the rain in our backup gauges and adjust the rainfall totals accordingly. The clogging up is worse in the spring with the oak flowers/pollen than in the fall. So if you see the rainfall totals unexpectedly jump up, then it was most likely due to our manual rainfall adjustment.   2 When there is measurable rainfall for the day, 3 separate data fields appear, the average hourly rainfall rate (Rain Rate /hr), the average hourly rainfall rate high for the day (Rain Rate High /hr) and the total rainfall for the storm (Storm Rain). Otherwise precipitation for the last 7 days, the highest rainfall day on record & number of days since the last precipitation are used. Day record is the most rainfall amount on any 24 hour day at the station since 6/22/2006.).   3 Beaufort wind force number and Beaufort scale in text.  

Placerville Location & Forecast Information: This weather station is located at 1,703 ft, about 2 miles from highway 50 and El Dorado Rd. We have been providing Placerville, CA with live online weather data since June of 2006. This is one of our original web pages from our birth back in 2006. This page has seen many upgrades over the years. We have grown steadily since then to around 100,000 weather related web pages to serve most cities and towns across the entire world.

Placerville has many different elevation changes which manifests itself in 11 different micro climates. Placerville spans elevations from near 1,600 feet up to near 2,600 feet. This is why we offer 4 different forecasts for Placerville in order to cover the different elevations and provide more accurate forecasts.

All of Placerville's 4 different forecast links are located right below the forecast icons on this web page. They are highlighted in yellow.

Data Measurement Information: As with many locations in the foothills, trees can be a factor in the mornings and later in the afternoon for measurements such as Wind, Solar & UV. Particularly in the cold season when the sun is low on the horizon. Our anemometer is 26 feet high, but still wind runs a few mph lower than normal in a couple directions where trees are present, which is accurately adjusted for. Our station data records go back to June 22, 2006, 9 years of Placerville data as of this writing. Normals & Records are based on downtown Placerville historic records dating back decades, not from this stations shorter term data. We do however use our own historic station data in many other instances.  



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