Medano Pass SnotelMDPC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/0.4 mi away/9,649 ft/326 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Medano Pass
Medano Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Saguache County, Colorado, at 9,975 ft31°
49°/23°
Clear·
Feels like 28°·Light air 3 mph NNW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 57° after 49° today.
Now. Medano Pass is 31° and clear at 10 AM. With the wind it feels like 28°. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the north-northwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 43° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° 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 57°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 53°. Rain is likely Thursday (55%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:27 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
3UV Moderate
32Air quality
84%Humidity
2%Cloud
Now
10:00 AM
31feels28
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
4923
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5729
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
5533
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
5435
10%
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
5336
13%
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
5538
26%
Thu
Oct 22
5440
55%
31°
49°23°
57°29°
55°33°
54°35°
53°36°
55°38°
54°40°
As of 10:00 AM in Medano Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Medano Pass
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 AM from its reporting area, San Luis Valley (CO), 33 miles off.
32Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)32Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)14Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 6 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Medano Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.45 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 9 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.45in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Medano Pass, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 9,975 ft
- County
- Saguache County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 37.8561° N
- Longitude
- 105.4328° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Medano Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
WestcliffeC08
At an airfield/11.3 mi away/8,241 ft/1,734 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW0143GW0143
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.3 mi away/8,306 ft/1,669 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
La Veta Pass (74)CO028
Beside a road/21.1 mi away/9,358 ft/617 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Westcliffe 16.9 SECO-CU-42
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.3 mi away/9,153 ft/822 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Great Sand Dunes Natl MonGSDC2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.1 mi away/7,999 ft/1,976 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
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Near Medano Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Gardnercommunity, 15 mi
- Crestonetown, 17 mi
- Silver Clifftown, 19 mi
- Westcliffetown, 19 mi
- Hoopertown, 25 mi
- Moffattown, 28 mi
- Ryetown, 28 mi
- Beulah Valleycommunity, 29 mi
- Blancatown, 29 mi
- Fort Garlandcommunity, 29 mi
- Colorado Citycommunity, 33 mi
- La Vetatown, 33 mi
Mountain passes near Medano Pass
- Music Pass6 mi
- Mosca Pass9 mi
- Venable Pass18 mi
- Pass Creek Pass20 mi
- Hermit Pass21 mi
- Sangre de Cristo Pass21 mi
- North La Veta Pass21 mi
- La Veta Pass22 mi