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A snow pillow on a mountain/7.9 mi away/11,140 ft/135 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Milk Cow Pass
Milk Cow Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Saguache County, Colorado, at 11,005 ft35°
50°/18°
Clear·
Feels like 35°·Light air 2 mph WSW
Now. Milk Cow Pass is 35° and clear at 10 AM. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the west-southwest at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 47° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 25° 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 53°, and the coolest Thursday, near 43°. Rain is likely Wednesday (50%) and Thursday (80%). Rain is possible Tuesday (41%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 23°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:32 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
50%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
10:00 AM
35feels35
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5018
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5323
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
4826
18%
Mon
Oct 19
4629
25%
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
4429
41%
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
4630
50%
Thu
Oct 22
4332
80%
35°
50°18°
53°23°
48°26°
46°29°
44°29°
46°30°
43°32°
As of 10:00 AM in Milk Cow Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Milk Cow Pass
Index 32, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 AM from its reporting area, San Luis Valley (CO), 42 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 Milk Cow Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.83 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
- 0.83in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Milk Cow 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
- 11,005 ft
- County
- Saguache County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 37.8517° N
- Longitude
- 106.5581° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Milk Cow Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Del NorteRCV
At an airfield/14.7 mi away/7,913 ft/3,092 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.4 mi away/8,923 ft/2,082 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
La Garita 5.6 WSWCO-SA-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.5 mi away/8,251 ft/2,754 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Del NorteDLNC2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.1 mi away/7,999 ft/3,006 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Del Norte (DLNC2), 17.1 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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Near Milk Cow Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- Gerrardcommunity, 12 mi
- South Forktown, 13 mi
- Del Nortetown, 16 mi
- City of Creedetown, 20 mi
- Centertown, 25 mi
- Saguachetown, 28 mi
- Cathedralcommunity, 29 mi
- Wolf Creek Passfeature, 29 mi
- Monte Vistacity, 29 mi
- Wolf Creekski area, 32 mi
- Moffattown, 37 mi
Mountain passes near Milk Cow Pass
- Moon Pass9 mi
- Carnero Pass13 mi
- Halfmoon Pass13 mi
- Meadow Pass21 mi
- Cochetopa Pass22 mi
- San Luis Pass24 mi
- North Pass25 mi
- Blowout Pass27 mi