A snow pillow on a mountain/6.7 mi away/10,700 ft/1,753 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Buckskin Pass
Buckskin Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Pitkin County, Colorado, at 12,453 ft16°
47°/12°
Clear·
Feels like 10°·Light breeze 4 mph ENE
Now. Buckskin Pass is 16° and clear at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 10°. The dew point is 16°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-northeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 46° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 22° by 6 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 50°, and the coolest Thursday, near 43°. Rain is likely Thursday (65%). Rain is possible Monday (30%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 21°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 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
27Air quality
85%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
16feels10
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
4712
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5021
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
4623
19%
Mon
Oct 19
4426
30%
Tue
Oct 20
4526
29%
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
4626
23%
Thu
Oct 22
4327
65%
16°
47°12°
50°21°
46°23°
44°26°
45°26°
46°26°
43°27°
As of 7:00 AM in Buckskin Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Buckskin Pass
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Aspen (CO), 11 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)12Good11 mi
- Ozone27Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)5Good11 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Buckskin Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.44 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.44in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Buckskin Pass, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 12,453 ft
- County
- Pitkin County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 39.1019° N
- Longitude
- 106.9920° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Buckskin Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Aspen (10)CO100
Beside a road/10.6 mi away/8,112 ft/4,341 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/10.7 mi away/7,815 ft/4,638 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW1428CW1428
In a volunteer observer's own ground/38.3 mi away/7,711 ft/4,742 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
GothicGTHC2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.4 mi away/10,617 ft/1,836 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Aspen 1.3 SSWCO-PT-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.7 mi away/8,084 ft/4,369 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Gothic (GTHC2), 9.4 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Buckskin Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Aspen Highlandssurveyed ski area, 8 mi
- Snowmasssurveyed ski area, 8 mi
- Snowmass Villagetown, 8 mi
- Buttermilksurveyed ski area, 10 mi
- Marbletown, 11 mi
- Aspencity, 11 mi
- Aspen Mountainsurveyed ski area, 11 mi
- Woody Creekcommunity, 13 mi
- Crested Buttesurveyed ski area, 14 mi
- Mount Crested Buttetown, 14 mi
- Redstonecommunity, 14 mi
- Crested Buttetown, 16 mi
Mountain passes near Buckskin Pass
- Willow Passunder 1 mi
- Trail Rider Pass3 mi
- Heckert Pass3 mi
- Frigid Air Pass4 mi
- West Maroon Pass5 mi
- Schofield Pass7 mi
- East Maroon Pass7 mi
- Conundrum Pass8 mi