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A snow pillow on a mountain/5.6 mi away/11,000 ft/668 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Elwood Pass
Elwood Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Rio Grande County, Colorado, at 11,668 ft19°
43°/14°
Clear·
Feels like 5°·Moderate breeze 16 mph NNE
Now. Elwood Pass is 19° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 5°. The dew point is 19°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northeast at 16 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 43° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 18° 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 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 46°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 36°. Rain is likely Tuesday (69%), Wednesday (72%) and Thursday (81%). Rain is possible Monday (32%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 17°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:34 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
29Air quality
57%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
19feels5
16mph
Today
Oct 16
4314
16mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
4617
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
4220
14%
Mon
Oct 19
3922
32%
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
3624
69%
Wed
Oct 21
3825
72%
Thu
Oct 22
3625
81%
19°
43°14°
46°17°
42°20°
39°22°
36°24°
38°25°
36°25°
As of 2:00 AM in Elwood Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Elwood Pass
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, San Luis Valley (CO), 42 miles off.
29Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)29Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)12Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Elwood Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 1.35 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 1.35in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Elwood Pass, the next 41 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
- 11,668 ft
- County
- Rio Grande County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 37.4064° N
- Longitude
- 106.6445° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Elwood Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Pagosa Springs (23)CO054
Beside a road/23.2 mi away/7,199 ft/4,469 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/24.1 mi away/7,664 ft/4,004 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.2 mi away/7,449 ft/4,219 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pagosa Springs 13.7 ECO-AU-89
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.7 mi away/8,196 ft/3,472 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Del NorteDLNC2
At a cooperative observer's station/24.2 mi away/7,999 ft/3,669 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Del Norte (DLNC2), 24.2 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Colorado
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Elwood Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Wolf Creek Passfeature, 10 mi
- Wolf Creekski area, 13 mi
- South Forktown, 18 mi
- Gerrardcommunity, 19 mi
- Alpinecommunity, 20 mi
- Pagosa Springstown, 23 mi
- Del Nortetown, 25 mi
- Piedracommunity, 30 mi
- Monte Vistacity, 30 mi
- Capulincommunity, 31 mi
- City of Creedetown, 34 mi
- Centertown, 38 mi
Mountain passes near Elwood Pass
- Summit Passunder 1 mi
- Bonito Pass4 mi
- Stunner Pass6 mi
- Railroad Pass7 mi
- Wolf Creek Pass10 mi
- Gunsight Pass10 mi
- Blowout Pass12 mi
- Windy Pass12 mi