A remote fire weather station/12.1 mi away/7,228 ft/1,929 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Columbine Pass
Now. Columbine Pass is 31° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 27°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° 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 55°, and the coolest Thursday, near 50°. Rain is likely Tuesday (55%), Wednesday (51%) and Thursday (76%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:38 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.
As of 1:00 AM in Columbine Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Telluride (CO), 45 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 11, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.80 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Columbine Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 12.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
A remote fire weather station/12.1 mi away/7,228 ft/1,929 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
NuclaAIB
At an airfield/15.8 mi away/5,939 ft/3,218 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW5825EW5825
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.8 mi away/5,809 ft/3,348 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Montrose 11 ENE03060
At a climate reference station/38.3 mi away/8,402 ft/755 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Norwood 2.1 NWCO-SM-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.7 mi away/6,865 ft/2,292 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Montrose #2MNTC2
At a cooperative observer's station/27.6 mi away/5,804 ft/3,353 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Montrose #2 (MNTC2), 27.6 miles from here, read 12 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.