Saint Elmo SnotelCTEC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/6.3 mi away/10,540 ft/1,471 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Cumberland Pass
Cumberland Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Gunnison County, Colorado, at 12,011 ft19°
46°/14°
Clear·
Feels like 10°·Light breeze 8 mph NNE
Now. Cumberland Pass is 19° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 10°. The dew point is 19°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 46° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 22° 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 51°, and the coolest Thursday, near 43°. Rain is likely Thursday (57%). Rain is possible Tuesday (30%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 19°.
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 11 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
73%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
19feels10
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
4614
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5119
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
4722
13%
Mon
Oct 19
4424
19%
Tue
Oct 20
4524
30%
Wed
Oct 21
4525
28%
Thu
Oct 22
4327
57%
19°
46°14°
51°19°
47°22°
44°24°
45°24°
45°25°
43°27°
As of 1:00 AM in Cumberland Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Cumberland Pass
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Aspen (CO), 39 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good-
- Ozone17Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)10Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 35, good.
GoodModerate
- 35YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Cumberland Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.33 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
- 0.33in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Cumberland Pass, the next 42 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
- 12,011 ft
- County
- Gunnison County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 38.6892° N
- Longitude
- 106.4842° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Cumberland Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/15.7 mi away/9,826 ft/2,185 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Monarch Pass (60)CO056
Beside a road/15.8 mi away/11,263 ft/748 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW1428CW1428
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.9 mi away/7,711 ft/4,300 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pitkin 5.8 WSWCO-GN-74
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.8 mi away/8,611 ft/3,400 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Taylor ParkTRBC2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.2 mi away/9,334 ft/2,677 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 Cumberland Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Pitkintown, 6 mi
- Garfieldcommunity, 14 mi
- Maysvillecommunity, 19 mi
- Buena Vistatown, 22 mi
- Johnson Villagecommunity, 22 mi
- Nathropcommunity, 22 mi
- Poncha Springstown, 25 mi
- Gunnisoncity, 26 mi
- Smeltertowncommunity, 27 mi
- Salidacity, 28 mi
- Independence Passfeature, 29 mi
- Crested Buttetown, 30 mi
Mountain passes near Cumberland Pass
- Napoleon Pass1 mi
- Tincup Pass3 mi
- Williams Pass6 mi
- Gunsight Pass6 mi
- Hancock Pass8 mi
- Waunita Pass8 mi
- Tomichi Pass8 mi
- Chalk Creek Pass9 mi