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A snow pillow on a mountain/10.9 mi away/9,200 ft/769 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Arizona/Buffalo Pass
Buffalo Pass, Arizona
Mountain pass in Apache County, Arizona, at 8,431 ft38°
52°/35°
Clear·
Feels like 36°·Light air 3 mph ESE
Now. Buffalo Pass is 38° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 56°, and the coolest Thursday, near 51°. Rain is likely Wednesday (61%) and Thursday (65%). Rain is possible Sunday (31%), Monday (43%) and Tuesday (37%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:39 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 9:48 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
23Air quality
73%Humidity
6%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
38feels36
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5235
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5232
20%
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
5240
31%
Mon
Oct 19
5440
43%
Tue
Oct 20
5643
37%
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
5643
61%
Thu
Oct 22
5141
65%
38°
52°35°
52°32°
52°40°
54°40°
56°43°
56°43°
51°41°
As of 1:00 AM in Buffalo Pass, Arizona.
Air quality
The air at Buffalo Pass
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, San Juan County (NM), 54 miles off.
23Good
- Ozone23Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)0Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 0, good.
GoodModerate
- 0YesterdayOct 15
- 50TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Buffalo Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 1.85 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 1.85in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Buffalo Pass, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 8,431 ft
- County
- Apache County
- State
- Arizona
- Latitude
- 36.4667° N
- Longitude
- 109.1493° W
What is measuring near here
The 3 instruments nearest Buffalo Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.2 miles away.
measured now1 instrument
measured daily2 instruments
Red Valley 9.3 WSWAZ-AP-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.2 mi away/6,527 ft/1,904 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Canyon De ChellyCHNA3
At a cooperative observer's station/30.7 mi away/5,545 ft/2,886 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Arizona
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Buffalo Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Lukachukaicommunity, 6 mi
- Red Rockcommunity, 11 mi
- Tsailecommunity, 12 mi
- Sehilicommunity, 13 mi
- Round Rockcommunity, 19 mi
- Del Muertocommunity, 25 mi
- Many Farmscommunity, 27 mi
- Teec Nos Poscommunity, 31 mi
- Rock Pointcommunity, 31 mi
- Chinlecommunity, 32 mi
- Red Mesacommunity, 36 mi
- Rough Rockcommunity, 39 mi
Mountain passes near Buffalo Pass
- Marsh Pass72 mi
- Antelope Pass138 mi
- Sunset Pass150 mi
- Schultz Pass161 mi
- Chavez Pass162 mi
- Black Pass174 mi
- Sanderson Pass175 mi
- Schultz Pass176 mi