A snow pillow on a mountain/6.1 mi away/10,760 ft/1,025 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Black Sage Pass
Black Sage Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Gunnison County, Colorado, at 9,735 ft24°
54°/20°
Clear·
Feels like 15°·Gentle breeze 8 mph E
Now. Black Sage Pass is 24° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 15°. The dew point is 19°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 27° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. 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 tomorrow, near 57°, and the coolest Monday, near 51°. Rain is likely Thursday (58%). Rain is possible Tuesday (30%) and Wednesday (30%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 25°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:29 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
74%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
24feels15
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5420
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5725
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
5428
12%
Mon
Oct 19
5130
23%
Tue
Oct 20
5230
30%
Wed
Oct 21
5331
30%
Thu
Oct 22
5133
58%
24°
54°20°
57°25°
54°28°
51°30°
52°30°
53°31°
51°33°
As of 1:00 AM in Black Sage Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Black Sage Pass
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Aspen (CO), 52 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good-
- Ozone17Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)10Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 35, good.
GoodModerate
- 35YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Black Sage Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.26 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.26in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Black Sage Pass, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 9,735 ft
- County
- Gunnison County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 38.4905° N
- Longitude
- 106.4517° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Black Sage Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Monarch Pass (60)CO056
Beside a road/6.8 mi away/11,263 ft/1,528 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
SalidaANK
At an airfield/22.0 mi away/7,523 ft/2,212 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW1428CW1428
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.2 mi away/7,711 ft/2,024 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pitkin 8.0 ESECO-GN-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.4 mi away/9,970 ft/235 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SargentsSGTC2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.2 mi away/8,458 ft/1,277 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 Colorado
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Black Sage Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Pitkintown, 9 mi
- Garfieldcommunity, 10 mi
- Maysvillecommunity, 14 mi
- Poncha Springstown, 21 mi
- Bonanzatown, 22 mi
- Smeltertowncommunity, 24 mi
- Salidacity, 25 mi
- Gunnisoncity, 26 mi
- Nathropcommunity, 27 mi
- Johnson Villagecommunity, 29 mi
- Buena Vistatown, 30 mi
- Saguachetown, 33 mi
Mountain passes near Black Sage Pass
- Original Monarch Pass6 mi
- Old Monarch Pass6 mi
- Waunita Pass7 mi
- Monarch Pass7 mi
- Tomichi Pass9 mi
- Chalk Creek Pass10 mi
- Hancock Pass10 mi
- Williams Pass11 mi