Wellton EToAZMET-AZ42
At a river or reservoir gauge/29.6 mi away/240 ft/1,277 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Arizona/Cabeza Prieta Pass
Cabeza Prieta Pass, Arizona
Mountain pass in Yuma County, Arizona, at 1,517 ft82°
88°/65°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 80°·Fresh breeze 22 mph ENE
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees cooler: a high of 75° after 88° today.
Now. Cabeza Prieta Pass is 82° and mostly clear at 12 PM. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the east-northeast at 22 mph, gusting to 41 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 86° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 66° by 6 AM, under cloud. 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. Air quality is unhealthy (index 188): everyone should cut back on long or hard exertion outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Monday, near 80°, and the coolest Thursday, near 72°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:02 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:21 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. Cloud is forecast to cover most of the night, so the sky will be hard to see. The day is 11 hours 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
7UV High
188Air quality
24%Humidity
14%Cloud
Now
12:00 PM
82feels80
22mph
UV 7
Today
Oct 16
8865
23mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7566
11%
20mph
Sun
Oct 18
7862
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
8062
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
8061
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7560
12%
14mph
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7257
UV 7
82°
88°65°
75°66°
78°62°
80°62°
80°61°
75°60°
72°57°
As of 12:00 PM in Cabeza Prieta Pass, Arizona.
Air quality
The air at Cabeza Prieta Pass
Index 188, unhealthy, led by coarse particles. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Yuma (AZ), 48 miles off.
188Unhealthy
- Fine particles (PM2.5)72Moderate-
- Ozone31Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)188Unhealthy-
The days ahead
Highest 51, moderate, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 39, good.
GoodModerate
- 39YesterdayOct 15
- 51TodayOct 16
- 38SatOct 17
- 43SunOct 18
- 45MonOct 19
- 48TueOct 20
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 5 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Cabeza Prieta Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Cabeza Prieta Pass, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 6 miles or more through Sun 5 AM, lowest 6 miles Sun 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 1,517 ft
- County
- Yuma County
- State
- Arizona
- Latitude
- 32.3142° N
- Longitude
- 113.8247° W
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Cabeza Prieta Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 28.7 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
WelltonNOZ
At an airfield/39.8 mi away/312 ft/1,205 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Tacna 3 NETACA3
At a cooperative observer's station/28.7 mi away/325 ft/1,192 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Yuma 15.0 ESEAZ-YM-10
In a volunteer observer's own ground/39.4 mi away/405 ft/1,112 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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 Cabeza Prieta Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Tacnacommunity, 28 mi
- Wellton Hillscommunity, 29 mi
- Welltontown, 31 mi
- Datelandcommunity, 40 mi
- Azteccommunity, 41 mi
- Fortuna Foothillscommunity, 42 mi
- Buckshotcommunity, 48 mi
- El Prado Estatescommunity, 49 mi
- Yuma Proving Groundcommunity, 52 mi
- Rancho Mesa Verdecommunity, 52 mi
- Orange Grove Mobile Manorcommunity, 53 mi
- Padre Ranchitoscommunity, 53 mi
Mountain passes near Cabeza Prieta Pass
- Christmas Pass8 mi
- Bean Pass12 mi
- Tinajas Altas Pass14 mi
- Sunday Pass15 mi
- Cipriano Pass20 mi
- Mohawk Pass29 mi
- O'Neill Pass31 mi
- Telegraph Pass38 mi