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Beside a road/7.2 mi away/6,125 ft/2,172 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/Colorado/Cottonwood Pass
Cottonwood Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Eagle County, Colorado, at 8,297 ft31°
57°/25°
Clear·
Feels like 25°·Light breeze 7 mph ESE
Now. Cottonwood Pass is 31° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 25°. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° 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 61° all week. Rain is likely Thursday (50%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:28 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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
84%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
31feels25
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5725
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6129
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
5932
partly cloudy day
Mon
Oct 19
5936
12%
Tue
Oct 20
5936
22%
Wed
Oct 21
6237
24%
Thu
Oct 22
5938
50%
31°
57°25°
61°29°
59°32°
59°36°
59°36°
62°37°
59°38°
As of 12:00 AM in Cottonwood Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Cottonwood Pass
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Aspen (CO), 27 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good-
- Ozone17Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)9Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 35, good.
GoodModerate
- 35YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Cottonwood Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.54 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.54in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Cottonwood Pass, the next 43 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
- 8,297 ft
- County
- Eagle County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 39.5305° N
- Longitude
- 107.0581° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Cottonwood 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 now3 instruments
At an airfield/10.8 mi away/6,539 ft/1,758 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
GypsumGPRC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/12.3 mi away/7,365 ft/932 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Glenwood Springs 9.2 ESECO-GF-84
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.8 mi away/7,665 ft/632 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Glenwood Springs - ShoshoneGWDC2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.4 mi away/6,215 ft/2,082 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 Cottonwood Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Dotserocommunity, 8 mi
- El Jebelcommunity, 9 mi
- Gypsumtown, 10 mi
- Catherinecommunity, 10 mi
- Mulfordcommunity, 10 mi
- Basalttown, 11 mi
- Cattle Creekcommunity, 12 mi
- Carbondaletown, 12 mi
- No Namecommunity, 13 mi
- Glenwood Springscity, 14 mi
- Eagletown, 15 mi
- Sunlight Mountainski area, 18 mi
Mountain passes near Cottonwood Pass
- Taylor Creek Pass9 mi
- Crooked Creek Pass21 mi
- Indian Camp Pass24 mi
- Heckert Pass28 mi
- Muddy Pass29 mi
- Avalanche Pass29 mi
- Willow Pass29 mi
- Trail Rider Pass29 mi