North Fork Cache La Poudre River At LivermoreLIVC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.5 mi away/5,774 ft/65 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Horsethief Pass
Horsethief Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Larimer County, Colorado, at 5,839 ft* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures falling to 26 to 32 degrees, coldest over the plains. * WHERE...Front Range Urban Corridor and all of the eastern plains. * WHEN...From midnight tonight to 9 AM MDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent water pipes from freezing; wrap or drain or allow them to drip slowly.
42°
55°/36°
Clear·
Feels like 35°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Horsethief Pass until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Horsethief Pass is 42° and clear at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 28° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 27°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
22Air quality
65%Humidity
9%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
42feels35
12mph
Today
Oct 15
5536
76%
28mph
Fri
Oct 16
5427
12mph
Sat
Oct 17
7331
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
7341
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6940
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7341
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7545
mostly clear day
42°
55°36°
54°27°
73°31°
73°41°
69°40°
73°41°
75°45°
As of 9:00 PM in Horsethief Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Horsethief Pass
Index 22, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Fort Collins (CO), 20 miles off.
22Good
- Ozone22Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 37, good.
GoodModerate
- 37YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Horsethief Pass
0.23 in in the last 24 hours, 0.63 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.23in
- Last 3 days
- 0.63in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 37%
Visibility
How far you can see at Horsethief Pass, the next 46 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
- 5,839 ft
- County
- Larimer County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 40.7658° N
- Longitude
- 105.1511° W
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Horsethief Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.5 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Wellington (38)CO042
Beside a road/9.8 mi away/5,111 ft/728 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW8077FW8077
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.6 mi away/5,004 ft/835 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Nunn 7 NNE94074
At a climate reference station/21.1 mi away/5,390 ft/449 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
At an airfield/22.9 mi away/5,016 ft/823 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
CperS2197
At a soil climate station/23.4 mi away/5,330 ft/509 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
La Porte 10.0 NNWCO-LR-567
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/6,096 ft/257 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Fort CollinsFORC2
At a cooperative observer's station/10.5 mi away/5,059 ft/780 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 Horsethief Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Wellingtontown, 9 mi
- Laportecommunity, 9 mi
- Fort Collinscity, 13 mi
- Nunntown, 20 mi
- Timnathtown, 20 mi
- Piercetown, 23 mi
- Red Feather Lakescommunity, 23 mi
- Severancetown, 23 mi
- Windsortown, 24 mi
- Aulttown, 25 mi
- Lovelandcity, 25 mi
- Eatontown, 28 mi
Mountain passes near Horsethief Pass
- Cloudy Pass10 mi
- White Pine Pass20 mi
- Donner Pass23 mi
- Stormy Peaks Pass29 mi
- Icefield Pass31 mi
- Mummy Pass32 mi
- Flint Pass32 mi
- Dowe Pass35 mi