Weather in Milpitas, California-Forecasts and History

Winter Storm in Milpitas Hills

See our weather forecast widget on every page in the lower right column. It includes hourly forecasts and you can click through to minute by minute forecasts so you know when a storm cloud is about to dump on exactly where you are.

Apocalyptic Wednesday!.

Orange Sky 9-9-2020
Dog still needs to be walked in spite of smoke in the air.

Forecasts

The Weather Channel
Hourly weather forecast for the Milpitas area, with other links to maps, travel conditions, gardening and allergy tips, advisories for those flying or boating. You may change settings.

Spare the Air
Click here to see if it’s a good idea or not to light a fire in your fireplace tonight. Runs from November 1 through February.

Wunderground: Milpitas 5-day Forecast
Also conditions at area airports, large and small.

Current

Where smoke was coming from.

Rainfall Maps from DWR/CNRFC
San Francisco Bay 1 Hr, 6 Hr, 24 Hr

US National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area/Monterey California
Facebook posts do not always reflect the most current information. For current official info, visit: Local Forecast Office for San Francisco Bay Area/Monterey, CA.

Confronting Climate Change in California
As we enter the 21st century, a powerful new agent — global climate change — will increasingly interact with the human pressures that continue to stress California’s natural environments. From the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Area Vibes: Milpitas CA Weather
For today and the coming week, as well as historic averages for each month. Lots of other data about Milpitas you may want to know.

Which City Has The Most Unpredictable Weather?
Not Milpitas! San Francisco’s weather patterns are unusual as compared to the rest of the country (September has historically been San Francisco’s warmest month, for instance). But they’re predictably unusual, at least on a day-to-day (if not necessarily hour-to-hour) basis. And San Francisco, like the rest of the West Coast, rarely gets severe weather. In other words, it is fairly easy for the weather forecast you see on TV to be correct.

Drought in San Francisco Bay Area

Burned hillside in Milpitas
Fire on the hillside during July heatwave

Inside Bay Area Drought
News, water saving tips, maps and data, on how drought is affecting the Bay Area.

Historic Weather Events

Storm Events Database
Search Results for Santa Clara County, California. 397 events were reported between 01/01/1980 and 01/31/2018 (13911 days). Sortable data base. You can also change the date range to suit your study. Due to Trump cuts to the NOAA budget, the data hasn’t been collected for several years.

Sunnyvale Tornado 1998
Tornadoes are extremely rare here, but one did occur in 1998. This one did some destruction in Sunnyvale. Here’s the weather analysis from SFSU.

Wind Storm, October 22, 2000
GO MILPITAS ARTICLE
Photo essay by your Go Milpitas! Guide, Ann Zeise, showing damage done by windstorm.

Images

Mt Hamilton HamCams
We’ve added a second, fixed Hamcam (Hamcam #2) to provide the popular and useful western view, thus freeing the original Hamcam (Hamcam #1) to roam the mountain top at our whim.

Night Sky

Planets Visible in the Night Sky in San Jose, California, USA
Clear enough to see the stars tonight? Here’s what planets you’d see tonight.

2020 Perseid Meteor Shower: Peak Dates For Bay Area
The annual Perseid meteor shower is known as the fireball champion of meteor showers and can be seen over The Bay Area for most of August.

Winter Storms

Winter Storm in Milpitas Hills
Monument Peak and Summitpoint homes in the snow one cold March day.