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At a river or reservoir gauge/4.8 mi away/8,831 ft/2,769 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Half Moon Pass
Half Moon Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Eagle County, Colorado, at 11,600 ft19°
46°/16°
Clear·
Feels like 12°·Light breeze 5 mph NNE
Now. Half Moon Pass is 19° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 12°. The dew point is 19°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 46° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 26° 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 49°, and the coolest Monday, near 44°. Rain is possible Thursday (46%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 24°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
74%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
19feels12
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
4616
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
4924
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
4726
partly cloudy day
Mon
Oct 19
4428
23%
Tue
Oct 20
4429
27%
Wed
Oct 21
4729
16%
Thu
Oct 22
4531
46%
19°
46°16°
49°24°
47°26°
44°28°
44°29°
47°29°
45°31°
As of 12:00 AM in Half Moon Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Half Moon Pass
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Aspen (CO), 29 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good-
- Ozone17Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)9Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 35, good.
GoodModerate
- 35YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Half Moon Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.29 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.29in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Half Moon Pass, the next 43 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
- 11,600 ft
- County
- Eagle County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 39.4941° N
- Longitude
- 106.4534° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Half Moon Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Dowd Junction (10)CO092
Beside a road/7.9 mi away/7,747 ft/3,853 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/16.1 mi away/12,073 ft/473 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW5575GW5575
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.3 mi away/12,322 ft/722 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Minturn 0.3 NWCO-EG-41
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.5 mi away/7,859 ft/3,741 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Avon 2NAVNC2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.0 mi away/8,514 ft/3,086 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.
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Near Half Moon Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Red Clifftown, 4 mi
- Minturntown, 6 mi
- Beaver Creeksurveyed ski area, 8 mi
- Vailsurveyed ski area, 9 mi
- Vailtown, 10 mi
- Avontown, 11 mi
- Fulfordcommunity, 11 mi
- Edwardscommunity, 13 mi
- Ski Cooperski area, 13 mi
- Copper Mountaincommunity, 13 mi
- Norriecommunity, 16 mi
- Copper Mountainsurveyed ski area, 16 mi
Mountain passes near Half Moon Pass
- Fall Creek Pass4 mi
- Fancy Pass6 mi
- Missouri Pass7 mi
- Ptarmigan Pass11 mi
- Two Elk Pass11 mi
- Shrine Pass12 mi
- Tennessee Pass12 mi
- Searle Pass12 mi