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Mountain passes/Colorado/Castle Pass
Castle Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Gunnison County, Colorado, at 11,071 ft20°
47°/16°
Clear·
Feels like 13°·Light breeze 5 mph NNE
Now. Castle Pass is 20° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 13°. The dew point is 9°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 47° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 23° 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 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 Monday, near 44°. Rain is likely Thursday (63%). Rain is possible Tuesday (36%) and Wednesday (33%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 22°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:31 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
62%Humidity
11%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
20feels13
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
4716
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5022
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
4624
11%
Mon
Oct 19
4427
22%
Tue
Oct 20
4527
36%
Wed
Oct 21
4627
33%
Thu
Oct 22
4428
63%
20°
47°16°
50°22°
46°24°
44°27°
45°27°
46°27°
44°28°
As of 2:00 AM in Castle Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Castle Pass
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Aspen (CO), 35 miles off.
18Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)18Good-
- Ozone18Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)9Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 10, good.
GoodModerate
- 10YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Castle Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 1.00 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
- 1.00in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Castle 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
- 11,071 ft
- County
- Gunnison County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 38.7694° N
- Longitude
- 107.1928° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Castle Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.8 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station CW1428CW1428
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.8 mi away/7,711 ft/3,360 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/21.5 mi away/7,674 ft/3,397 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Montrose 11 ENE03060
At a climate reference station/31.2 mi away/8,402 ft/2,669 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Aspen (10)CO100
Beside a road/35.1 mi away/8,112 ft/2,959 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Gunnison 17.8 NNWCO-GN-64
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.8 mi away/8,729 ft/2,342 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Crested Butte CoopCBUC2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.9 mi away/8,888 ft/2,183 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Crested Butte Coop (CBUC2), 13.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:27. measured daily
Elsewhere in Colorado
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Near Castle Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Crested Buttetown, 13 mi
- Mount Crested Buttetown, 15 mi
- Crested Buttesurveyed ski area, 15 mi
- Somersetcommunity, 18 mi
- Marbletown, 21 mi
- Gunnisoncity, 21 mi
- Paoniatown, 23 mi
- Crawfordtown, 23 mi
- Hotchkisstown, 28 mi
- Redstonecommunity, 29 mi
- Lazearcommunity, 31 mi
- Aspen Highlandssurveyed ski area, 32 mi
Mountain passes near Castle Pass
- Swampy Pass3 mi
- Storm Pass4 mi
- Beckwith Pass5 mi
- Ohio Pass7 mi
- Kebler Pass7 mi
- Curecanti Pass10 mi
- Gunsight Pass11 mi
- Minnesota Pass12 mi