High Lonesome SnotelHLNC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/3.6 mi away/10,620 ft/1,159 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Caribou Pass
Caribou Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Grand County, Colorado, at 11,779 ft20°
46°/16°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 11°·Light breeze 7 mph W
Now. Caribou Pass is 20° and mostly clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 11°. The dew point is 20°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 45° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 27° by 3 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. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 51°, and the coolest Monday, near 45°. Rain is possible Thursday (31%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 25°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:20 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 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
39Air quality
86%Humidity
20%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
20feels11
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
4616
12mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
5125
14mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
5028
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
4527
10%
Tue
Oct 20
4627
14%
Wed
Oct 21
4828
partly cloudy day
Thu
Oct 22
4729
31%
20°
46°16°
51°25°
50°28°
45°27°
46°27°
48°28°
47°29°
As of 2:00 AM in Caribou Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Caribou Pass
Index 39, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Denver-Boulder (CO), 35 miles off.
39Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)39Good22.4 mi
- Ozone29Good30 ppb19.4 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)10Good22.4 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Caribou Pass
0.06 in in the last 24 hours, 0.39 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.06in
- Last 3 days
- 0.39in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 15%
Visibility
How far you can see at Caribou Pass, the next 41 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
- 11,779 ft
- County
- Grand County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 40.0200° N
- Longitude
- 105.6908° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Caribou Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.6 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
040E22415RWS1RHS at Fraser Flats CO US CDOTCO139
Beside a road/7.7 mi away/8,379 ft/3,400 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Boulder 14 W94075
At a climate reference station/8.0 mi away/9,828 ft/1,951 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Citizen station GW5341GW5341
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.6 mi away/8,049 ft/3,730 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
GranbyGNB
At an airfield/12.6 mi away/8,208 ft/3,571 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Fraser 3.0 NCO-GR-36
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.4 mi away/8,419 ft/3,360 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Co Boulder 14 WWRBC2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.0 mi away/9,839 ft/1,940 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 Caribou Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Eldoraski area, 7 mi
- Eldoracommunity, 8 mi
- Frasertown, 8 mi
- Winter Parktown, 9 mi
- Tabernashcommunity, 9 mi
- Winter Parksurveyed ski area, 10 mi
- Wardtown, 10 mi
- Nederlandtown, 10 mi
- Granby Ranchski area, 11 mi
- Bonanza Mountain Estatescommunity, 12 mi
- Rollinsvillecommunity, 12 mi
- St. Ann Highlandscommunity, 13 mi
Mountain passes near Caribou Pass
- Arapaho Passunder 1 mi
- Devils Thumb Pass3 mi
- Pawnee Pass5 mi
- Rollins Pass6 mi
- Buchanan Pass8 mi
- Rogers Pass10 mi
- Cony Pass11 mi
- Boulder-Grand Pass14 mi