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At a river or reservoir gauge/6.3 mi away/8,831 ft/4,056 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Fall Creek Pass
Fall Creek Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Eagle County, Colorado, at 12,887 ft15°
43°/11°
Clear·
Feels like 8°·Light breeze 4 mph NE
Now. Fall Creek Pass is 15° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 8°. The dew point is 15°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 43° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 23° by 11 PM, 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 46°, and the coolest Monday, near 41°. Rain is possible Monday (32%) and Thursday (47%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 21°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:26 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
20Air quality
69%Humidity
2%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
15feels8
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
4311
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
4621
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
4523
13%
Mon
Oct 19
4126
32%
Tue
Oct 20
4326
23%
Wed
Oct 21
4326
17%
Thu
Oct 22
4227
47%
15°
43°11°
46°21°
45°23°
41°26°
43°26°
43°26°
42°27°
As of 2:00 AM in Fall Creek Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Fall Creek Pass
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Aspen (CO), 25 miles off.
20Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)16Good24.6 mi
- Ozone20Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)7Good24.6 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fall Creek Pass
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, 0.32 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.01in
- Last 3 days
- 0.32in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 3%
Visibility
How far you can see at Fall Creek 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
- 12,887 ft
- County
- Eagle County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 39.4339° N
- Longitude
- 106.4778° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Fall Creek 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
Dowd Junction (10)CO092
Beside a road/12.1 mi away/7,747 ft/5,140 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/16.6 mi away/9,928 ft/2,959 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW5575GW5575
In a volunteer observer's own ground/31.5 mi away/12,322 ft/565 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Minturn 0.3 NWCO-EG-41
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.9 mi away/7,859 ft/5,028 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sugarloaf RsvrSGLC2
At a reservoir/14.1 mi away/9,760 ft/3,127 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
Elsewhere in Colorado
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
AlamosacityArapahoe Basinsurveyed ski areaAspen Highlandssurveyed ski areaAspen Mountainsurveyed ski areaBeaver Creeksurveyed ski areaBerthoud PassfeatureBouldercityBreckenridgesurveyed ski areaButtermilksurveyed ski areaColorado SpringscityCopper Mountainsurveyed ski areaCrested Buttesurveyed ski areaDenvercityDurangocityEldoraski areaFort CollinscityGranby Ranchski areaGrand JunctioncityGunnisoncityHowelsen Hillski areaIndependence PassfeatureKeystonesurveyed ski areaLeadvillecityLoveland PassfeatureLoveland Ski Areaski areaMount ElbertfeaturePowderhornski areaPueblocityPurgatoryski areaSilvertontownSilverton Mountainski areaSki Cooperski areaSnowmasssurveyed ski areaSteamboatsurveyed ski areaSteamboat SpringscitySunlight Mountainski areaTelluridesurveyed ski areaVailsurveyed ski areaWinter Parksurveyed ski areaWolf Creekski areaWolf Creek Passfeature
Near Fall Creek Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Red Clifftown, 8 mi
- Minturntown, 11 mi
- Fulfordcommunity, 11 mi
- Ski Cooperski area, 12 mi
- Beaver Creeksurveyed ski area, 12 mi
- Norriecommunity, 12 mi
- Vailsurveyed ski area, 14 mi
- Avontown, 14 mi
- Vailtown, 14 mi
- Copper Mountaincommunity, 15 mi
- Leadville Northcommunity, 15 mi
- Edwardscommunity, 16 mi
Mountain passes near Fall Creek Pass
- Fancy Pass2 mi
- Missouri Pass3 mi
- Half Moon Pass4 mi
- Tennessee Pass10 mi
- Crooked Creek Pass11 mi
- Hagerman Pass12 mi
- Ptarmigan Pass13 mi
- Kokomo Pass13 mi