Lake Irene SnotelLKIC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/1.8 mi away/10,700 ft/613 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Forest Canyon Pass
Now. Forest Canyon Pass is 15° and clear at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 6°. The dew point is 14°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 45° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 24° 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 49°, and the coolest Monday, near 45°. Rain is possible Thursday (38%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 23°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:19 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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Forest Canyon Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Fort Collins (CO), 40 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 37, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
0.19 in in the last 24 hours, 0.62 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Forest Canyon 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
Lake Irene SnotelLKIC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/1.8 mi away/10,700 ft/613 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Lily Lake (35)CO045
Beside a road/15.8 mi away/8,920 ft/2,393 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
GranbyGNB
At an airfield/24.2 mi away/8,208 ft/3,105 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW5341GW5341
In a volunteer observer's own ground/25.7 mi away/8,049 ft/3,264 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Boulder 14 W94075
At a climate reference station/30.5 mi away/9,828 ft/1,485 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Grand Lake 2.8 NWCO-GR-44
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.7 mi away/8,678 ft/2,635 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Grand LakeGLKC2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.3 mi away/8,793 ft/2,520 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.