At a river or reservoir gauge/9.3 mi away/9,511 ft/2,636 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Gunsight Pass
Gunsight Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Gunnison County, Colorado, at 12,147 ft16°
47°/12°
Clear·
Feels like 7°·Light breeze 7 mph NE
Now. Gunsight Pass is 16° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 7°. The dew point is 16°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northeast at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 47° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 19° 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 50°, and the coolest Thursday, near 43°. Rain is likely Thursday (58%). Rain is possible Tuesday (30%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 17°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:29 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 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
76%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
16feels7
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
4712
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5017
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
4620
13%
Mon
Oct 19
4422
21%
Tue
Oct 20
4422
30%
Wed
Oct 21
4522
29%
Thu
Oct 22
4324
58%
16°
47°12°
50°17°
46°20°
44°22°
44°22°
45°22°
43°24°
As of 2:00 AM in Gunsight Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Gunsight Pass
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Aspen (CO), 37 miles off.
18Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)18Good-
- Ozone18Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)9Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 10, good.
GoodModerate
- 10YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Gunsight Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.47 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
- 0.47in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Gunsight 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
- 12,147 ft
- County
- Gunnison County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 38.6833° N
- Longitude
- 106.5998° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Gunsight Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Monarch Pass (60)CO056
Beside a road/19.6 mi away/11,263 ft/884 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW1428CW1428
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.1 mi away/7,711 ft/4,436 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/20.7 mi away/7,674 ft/4,473 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pitkin 5.8 WSWCO-GN-74
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.9 mi away/8,611 ft/3,536 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Taylor ParkTRBC2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.3 mi away/9,334 ft/2,813 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
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 Gunsight Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Pitkintown, 7 mi
- Garfieldcommunity, 19 mi
- Gunnisoncity, 20 mi
- Maysvillecommunity, 24 mi
- Crested Buttetown, 24 mi
- Crested Buttesurveyed ski area, 25 mi
- Mount Crested Buttetown, 25 mi
- Buena Vistatown, 27 mi
- Johnson Villagecommunity, 28 mi
- Nathropcommunity, 29 mi
- Independence Passfeature, 29 mi
- Poncha Springstown, 31 mi
Mountain passes near Gunsight Pass
- Cumberland Pass6 mi
- Napoleon Pass8 mi
- Waunita Pass9 mi
- Tincup Pass9 mi
- Williams Pass12 mi
- Tomichi Pass13 mi
- Hancock Pass13 mi
- Cottonwood Pass14 mi