A snow pillow on a mountain/3.1 mi away/10,700 ft/1,699 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Frigid Air Pass
Frigid Air Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Gunnison County, Colorado, at 12,399 ft18°
46°/13°
Clear·
Feels like 12°·Light breeze 4 mph E
Now. Frigid Air Pass is 18° and clear at 8 AM. With the wind it feels like 12°. The dew point is 18°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 46° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 22° 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 7, 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 43°. Rain is likely Thursday (67%). Rain is possible Monday (31%) and Tuesday (30%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 22°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:30 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
84%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
8:00 AM
18feels12
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
4613
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
4922
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
4624
19%
Mon
Oct 19
4326
31%
Tue
Oct 20
4426
30%
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
4527
24%
Thu
Oct 22
4328
67%
18°
46°13°
49°22°
46°24°
43°26°
44°26°
45°27°
43°28°
As of 8:00 AM in Frigid Air Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Frigid Air Pass
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Aspen (CO), 14 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)13Good14.5 mi
- Ozone27Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)7Good14.5 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Frigid Air Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.44 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 7 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.44in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Frigid Air Pass, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 12,399 ft
- County
- Gunnison County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 39.0536° N
- Longitude
- 107.0203° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Frigid Air Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Aspen (10)CO100
Beside a road/13.9 mi away/8,112 ft/4,287 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/14.3 mi away/7,815 ft/4,584 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW1428CW1428
In a volunteer observer's own ground/35.1 mi away/7,711 ft/4,688 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
GothicGTHC2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.3 mi away/10,617 ft/1,782 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Crested Butte 6.2 NCO-GN-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.6 mi away/9,606 ft/2,793 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Gothic (GTHC2), 6.3 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Colorado
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Frigid Air Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Marbletown, 9 mi
- Aspen Highlandssurveyed ski area, 11 mi
- Mount Crested Buttetown, 11 mi
- Crested Buttesurveyed ski area, 11 mi
- Snowmasssurveyed ski area, 11 mi
- Snowmass Villagetown, 12 mi
- Crested Buttetown, 13 mi
- Buttermilksurveyed ski area, 14 mi
- Aspen Mountainsurveyed ski area, 14 mi
- Aspencity, 14 mi
- Redstonecommunity, 15 mi
- Woody Creekcommunity, 17 mi
Mountain passes near Frigid Air Pass
- West Maroon Pass2 mi
- Schofield Pass3 mi
- Buckskin Pass4 mi
- Trail Rider Pass4 mi
- Willow Pass4 mi
- Heckert Pass5 mi
- East Maroon Pass5 mi
- Yule Pass6 mi