Saint Vrain Creek 1 SE LyonsLNSC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.5 mi away/5,417 ft/361 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Dowe Pass
Dowe Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Larimer County, Colorado, at 5,778 ft* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures falling to 26 to 32 degrees, coldest over the plains. * WHERE...Front Range Urban Corridor and all of the eastern plains. * WHEN...From midnight tonight to 9 AM MDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent water pipes from freezing; wrap or drain or allow them to drip slowly.
42°
59°/37°
Clear·
Feels like 40°·Light breeze 4 mph WSW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Dowe Pass until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Dowe Pass is 42° and clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 29° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
22Air quality
72%Humidity
2%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
42feels40
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
5937
73%
15mph
Fri
Oct 16
5829
clear day
Sat
Oct 17
7434
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
7340
partly cloudy day
Mon
Oct 19
6942
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7341
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7644
partly cloudy day
42°
59°37°
58°29°
74°34°
73°40°
69°42°
73°41°
76°44°
As of 9:00 PM in Dowe Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Dowe Pass
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Fort Collins (CO), 19 miles off.
22Good
- Ozone22Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 37, good.
GoodModerate
- 37YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Dowe Pass
0.13 in in the last 24 hours, 0.58 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.13in
- Last 3 days
- 0.58in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 22%
Visibility
How far you can see at Dowe Pass, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 5,778 ft
- County
- Larimer County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 40.2666° N
- Longitude
- 105.2380° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Dowe Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station EW2670EW2670
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.9 mi away/5,107 ft/671 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/8.1 mi away/5,056 ft/722 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-25 @ Berthoud (43)CO037
Beside a road/14.1 mi away/4,909 ft/869 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Boulder 14 W94075
At a climate reference station/22.8 mi away/9,828 ft/4,050 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Lyons 1.8 NCO-BO-137
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/6,480 ft/702 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
FlatironFLTC2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.1 mi away/5,499 ft/279 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Mountain passes near Dowe Pass
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- Storm Pass18 mi
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