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A snow pillow on a mountain/2.4 mi away/9,620 ft/2,228 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Buchanan Pass
Buchanan Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Grand County, Colorado, at 11,848 ft18°
33°/18°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 7°·Gentle breeze 9 mph WNW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 42° after 33° today.
Now. Buchanan Pass is 18° and mostly clear at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 7°. The dew point is 18°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 13° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 50°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 42°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 11°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
22Air quality
73%Humidity
15%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
18feels7
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 15
3318
79%
UV 6
Fri
Oct 16
4211
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5020
14mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
4925
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
4525
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
4726
19%
Wed
Oct 21
4927
11%
18°
33°18°
42°11°
50°20°
49°25°
45°25°
47°26°
49°27°
As of 9:00 PM in Buchanan Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Buchanan Pass
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Fort Collins (CO), 40 miles off.
22Good
- Ozone22Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 37, good.
GoodModerate
- 37YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Buchanan Pass
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 0.54 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.02in
- Last 3 days
- 0.54in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 4%
Visibility
How far you can see at Buchanan Pass, the next 46 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
- 11,848 ft
- County
- Grand County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 40.1311° N
- Longitude
- 105.6303° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Buchanan Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Ward (35)CO044
Beside a road/7.8 mi away/9,155 ft/2,693 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Boulder 14 W94075
At a climate reference station/8.5 mi away/9,828 ft/2,020 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
GranbyGNB
At an airfield/15.1 mi away/8,208 ft/3,640 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW5341GW5341
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.9 mi away/8,049 ft/3,799 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Allenspark 4.8 SSECO-BO-307
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.8 mi away/8,488 ft/3,360 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Co Boulder 14 WWRBC2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.1 mi away/9,839 ft/2,009 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Colorado
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Buchanan Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Allensparkcommunity, 7 mi
- Wardtown, 8 mi
- Hidden Lakecommunity, 8 mi
- Bark Ranchcommunity, 10 mi
- Eldoraski area, 12 mi
- Gold Hillcommunity, 12 mi
- Jamestowntown, 13 mi
- Eldoracommunity, 13 mi
- Nederlandtown, 13 mi
- Bonanza Mountain Estatescommunity, 13 mi
- Grand Laketown, 13 mi
- St. Ann Highlandscommunity, 14 mi
Mountain passes near Buchanan Pass
- Cony Pass4 mi
- Pawnee Pass4 mi
- Boulder-Grand Pass7 mi
- Caribou Pass8 mi
- Arapaho Pass8 mi
- Stone Man Pass9 mi
- Granite Pass10 mi
- Andrews Pass11 mi