Beartown SnotelBRTC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/0.8 mi away/11,600 ft/901 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Hunchback Pass
Now. Hunchback Pass is 23° and mostly clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 9°. The dew point is 22°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northeast at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 16° 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 week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 44°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 34°. Rain is likely Tuesday (71%) and Wednesday (76%). Rain is possible Monday (34%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 15°.
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 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Hunchback Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Southern Ute Indian Reservation (CO), 44 miles off.
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 47, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.05 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. 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 6 instruments nearest Hunchback Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beartown SnotelBRTC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/0.8 mi away/11,600 ft/901 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Telluride - Lawson Hill (18)CO055
Beside a road/25.7 mi away/8,911 ft/3,590 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/27.3 mi away/9,085 ft/3,416 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.4 mi away/8,923 ft/3,578 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Silverton 0.3 WSWCO-SJ-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.8 mi away/9,289 ft/3,212 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SilvertonSLVC2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.1 mi away/9,416 ft/3,085 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.