A snow pillow on a mountain/1.3 mi away/10,200 ft/42 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Lizard Head Pass
Lizard Head Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in San Miguel County, Colorado, at 10,242 ft28°
49°/22°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 22°·Light breeze 6 mph NE
Now. Lizard Head Pass is 28° and partly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 22°. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 28° by 5 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 51°, and the coolest Thursday, near 41°. Rain is likely Tuesday (62%), Wednesday (65%) and Thursday (82%). Rain is possible Monday (46%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:33 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:38 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 13 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
17Air quality
100%Humidity
61%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
28feels22
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
4922
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5128
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
4530
22%
Mon
Oct 19
4433
46%
Tue
Oct 20
4334
62%
Wed
Oct 21
4534
65%
Thu
Oct 22
4134
82%
28°
49°22°
51°28°
45°30°
44°33°
43°34°
45°34°
41°34°
As of 12:00 AM in Lizard Head Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Lizard Head Pass
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Telluride (CO), 10 miles off.
17Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)17Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)8Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 5, good.
GoodModerate
- 5YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Lizard Head Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 1.35 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
- 1.35in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Lizard Head 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
- 10,242 ft
- County
- San Miguel County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 37.8111° N
- Longitude
- 107.9062° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Lizard Head Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Telluride - Lawson Hill (18)CO055
Beside a road/9.2 mi away/8,911 ft/1,331 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/9.9 mi away/9,085 ft/1,157 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW1216GW1216
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.0 mi away/9,246 ft/996 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ophir 3.6 SWCO-SM-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/9,795 ft/447 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
TellurideTELC2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.7 mi away/8,669 ft/1,573 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 Lizard Head Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Ophirtown, 5 mi
- Mountain Villagetown, 9 mi
- Telluridetown, 10 mi
- Telluridesurveyed ski area, 10 mi
- Ricotown, 11 mi
- Silvertontown, 13 mi
- Purgatoryski area, 13 mi
- Sawpittown, 14 mi
- Silverton Mountainski area, 14 mi
- Placervillecommunity, 15 mi
- Ouraycity, 19 mi
- Portlandcommunity, 22 mi
Mountain passes near Lizard Head Pass
- Bolam Pass6 mi
- Ophir Pass7 mi
- Coal Bank Pass10 mi
- Red Mountain Pass12 mi
- Molas Pass12 mi
- Imogene Pass12 mi
- Blue Lake Pass14 mi
- Richmond Pass15 mi