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A remote fire weather station/5.1 mi away/8,333 ft/1,973 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Buffalo Pass
Buffalo Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Routt County, Colorado, at 10,306 ft17°
50°/15°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 7°·Gentle breeze 8 mph ENE
Now. Buffalo Pass is 17° and mostly clear at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 7°. The dew point is 17°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east-northeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 25° 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. Highs stay close to 52° all week. Rain is possible Thursday (43%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 25°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:23 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 7 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
91%Humidity
13%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
17feels7
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
5015
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
5225
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
5227
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5132
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
5232
14%
Wed
Oct 21
5334
12%
Thu
Oct 22
5235
43%
17°
50°15°
52°25°
52°27°
51°32°
52°32°
53°34°
52°35°
As of 7:00 AM in Buffalo Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Buffalo Pass
Index 16, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Steamboat Springs (CO), 8 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)16Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 12, good.
GoodModerate
- 12YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Buffalo Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 1.05 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
- 1.05in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Buffalo 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
- 10,306 ft
- County
- Routt County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 40.5436° N
- Longitude
- 106.6850° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Buffalo Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/9.3 mi away/6,751 ft/3,555 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/9.7 mi away/6,877 ft/3,429 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW5627GW5627
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.8 mi away/7,667 ft/2,639 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Steamboat Springs 1.9 ECO-RT-43
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.1 mi away/7,200 ft/3,106 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Steamboat SpringsSBTC2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.9 mi away/6,739 ft/3,567 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 Buffalo Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Steamboatsurveyed ski area, 9 mi
- Steamboat Springscity, 9 mi
- Howelsen Hillski area, 9 mi
- Oak Creektown, 23 mi
- Waldentown, 25 mi
- Phippsburgcommunity, 26 mi
- Yampatown, 29 mi
- Haydentown, 30 mi
- Kremmlingtown, 37 mi
- Parshallcommunity, 43 mi
- McCoycommunity, 44 mi
- Hot Sulphur Springstown, 45 mi
Mountain passes near Buffalo Pass
- Rabbit Ears Pass12 mi
- Muddy Pass13 mi
- Arapaho Pass16 mi
- Ute Pass17 mi
- Yellow Jacket Pass19 mi
- Buffalo Pass22 mi
- Indian Pass22 mi
- Red Dirt Pass22 mi