Webcams & Weather

As an adjunct professor, a great deal of my time is spent on the road. In fact, two of the more common nicknames for adjuncts are “freeway flyer” and, my personal favorite, “roads scholar.”

One of the biggest challenges I face in my travels is weather and traffic, especially the arduous and unpredictable “grapevine” portion of Interstate 5, which I drove from October 2007 to June 2009.

Notably, in January 2008 I drove the grapevine to Bakersfield in the morning during a light snow that grew into a snowstorm that shut down the freeway for two days. Snow and rain were always an issue in the winter while summers were generally kinder, although in July 2008 I survived 113 degree temperatures in Bakersfield!

To facilitate my commutes and to help others, I curated the following links to webcams, weather reports and road conditions for the areas through which I most frequently drive.

The links are organized by the number of the freeways, highways and interstates on which I drive to the schools where I teach. I have also identified the city in which the webcam is located and provided a link to a current weather report for it (in parenthesis).

You will also find links to resources available through the California Highway Patrol (CHP) and the California Department of Transportation (CalTrans). Where available I also provided links to road conditions for a specific area.

CHP and CalTrans

Environmental and Safety