Molas Lake SnotelMLSC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/0.9 mi away/10,500 ft/402 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Molas Pass
Molas Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in San Juan County, Colorado, at 10,902 ft27°
43°/20°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 18°·Gentle breeze 9 mph NNE
Now. Molas Pass is 27° and mostly clear at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 18°. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northeast at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 18° 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 week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 46°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 36°. Rain is likely Tuesday (70%) and Wednesday (75%). Rain is possible Monday (42%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 17°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:43 PM. 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 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
23Air quality
93%Humidity
35%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
27feels18
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 15
4320
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
4517
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
4623
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
4025
26%
Mon
Oct 19
3829
42%
Tue
Oct 20
3630
70%
Wed
Oct 21
3831
75%
27°
43°20°
45°17°
46°23°
40°25°
38°29°
36°30°
38°31°
As of 9:00 PM in Molas Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Molas Pass
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Southern Ute Indian Reservation (CO), 39 miles off.
23Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)10Good-
- Ozone23Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 47, good.
GoodModerate
- 47YesterdayOct 14
- 42TodayOct 15
- 46FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Molas Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 2.15 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 2.15in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Molas 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
- 10,902 ft
- County
- San Juan County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 37.7378° N
- Longitude
- 107.6981° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Molas Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Telluride - Lawson Hill (18)CO055
Beside a road/17.4 mi away/8,911 ft/1,991 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/18.8 mi away/9,085 ft/1,817 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW1216GW1216
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.6 mi away/9,246 ft/1,656 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Silverton 0.3 WSWCO-SJ-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.1 mi away/9,289 ft/1,613 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SilvertonSLVC2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.8 mi away/9,416 ft/1,486 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Colorado
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Molas Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Silvertontown, 5 mi
- Silverton Mountainski area, 10 mi
- Purgatoryski area, 11 mi
- Ophirtown, 11 mi
- Telluridesurveyed ski area, 15 mi
- Telluridetown, 15 mi
- Mountain Villagetown, 16 mi
- Ricotown, 18 mi
- Ouraycity, 20 mi
- Portlandcommunity, 24 mi
- Sawpittown, 24 mi
- Placervillecommunity, 26 mi
Mountain passes near Molas Pass
- Coal Bank Pass5 mi
- Ophir Pass9 mi
- Stony Pass9 mi
- Hunchback Pass10 mi
- Bolam Pass11 mi
- Columbine Pass11 mi
- Red Mountain Pass11 mi
- Trimble Pass12 mi