At a river or reservoir gauge/1.6 mi away/11,411 ft/740 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Chalk Creek Pass
Chalk Creek Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Chaffee County, Colorado, at 12,151 ft23°
45°/11°
Clear·
Feels like 15°·Light breeze 6 mph ENE
Now. Chalk Creek Pass is 23° and clear at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 15°. The dew point is 15°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-northeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 45° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 19° 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 Monday, near 44°. Rain is likely Thursday (62%). Rain is possible Monday (32%) and Tuesday (30%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 18°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 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 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
23Air quality
66%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
23feels15
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
4511
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5018
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
4821
23%
Mon
Oct 19
4424
32%
Tue
Oct 20
4523
30%
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
4524
24%
Thu
Oct 22
4425
62%
23°
45°11°
50°18°
48°21°
44°24°
45°23°
45°24°
44°25°
As of 4:00 AM in Chalk Creek Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Chalk Creek Pass
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Aspen (CO), 47 miles off.
23Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)13Good-
- Ozone23Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)5Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Chalk Creek Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.65 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.65in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Chalk Creek Pass, the next 45 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
- 12,151 ft
- County
- Chaffee County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 38.6064° N
- Longitude
- 106.3506° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Chalk Creek Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Monarch Pass (60)CO056
Beside a road/7.6 mi away/11,263 ft/888 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/14.1 mi away/9,826 ft/2,325 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW1428CW1428
In a volunteer observer's own ground/31.5 mi away/7,711 ft/4,440 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pitkin 8.0 ESECO-GN-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.3 mi away/9,970 ft/2,181 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SargentsSGTC2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.5 mi away/8,458 ft/3,693 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 Chalk Creek Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Garfieldcommunity, 5 mi
- Pitkintown, 9 mi
- Maysvillecommunity, 10 mi
- Poncha Springstown, 16 mi
- Nathropcommunity, 18 mi
- Smeltertowncommunity, 19 mi
- Johnson Villagecommunity, 19 mi
- Salidacity, 20 mi
- Buena Vistatown, 20 mi
- Bonanzatown, 25 mi
- Howardcommunity, 30 mi
- Gunnisoncity, 31 mi
Mountain passes near Chalk Creek Pass
- Hancock Pass2 mi
- Tomichi Pass2 mi
- Williams Pass3 mi
- Original Monarch Pass7 mi
- Old Monarch Pass8 mi
- Monarch Pass8 mi
- Napoleon Pass9 mi
- Tincup Pass9 mi