Moon Pass SnotelMOPC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/1.6 mi away/11,140 ft/561 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Moon Pass
Moon Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Saguache County, Colorado, at 10,579 ft27°
50°/20°
Clear·
Feels like 22°·Light breeze 4 mph NNE
Now. Moon Pass is 27° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 22°. The dew point is 17°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 26° 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 54°, and the coolest Thursday, near 45°. Rain is likely Thursday (69%). Rain is possible Tuesday (40%) and Wednesday (46%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 24°.
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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
24Air quality
71%Humidity
9%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
27feels22
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5020
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5424
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
5027
11%
Mon
Oct 19
4730
23%
Tue
Oct 20
4731
40%
Wed
Oct 21
4831
46%
Thu
Oct 22
4533
69%
27°
50°20°
54°24°
50°27°
47°30°
47°31°
48°31°
45°33°
As of 12:00 AM in Moon Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Moon Pass
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, San Luis Valley (CO), 46 miles off.
24Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)12Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 12, good.
GoodModerate
- 12YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Moon Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 1.10 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
- 1.10in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Moon 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
- 10,579 ft
- County
- Saguache County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 37.9814° N
- Longitude
- 106.5350° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Moon Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Del NorteRCV
At an airfield/21.0 mi away/7,913 ft/2,666 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/31.3 mi away/8,923 ft/1,656 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Monarch Pass (60)CO056
Beside a road/37.4 mi away/11,263 ft/684 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Saguache 16.8 WCO-SA-34
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.4 mi away/8,402 ft/2,177 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SaguacheSAGC2
At a cooperative observer's station/22.9 mi away/7,711 ft/2,868 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 Saguache (SAGC2), 22.9 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- City of Creedetown, 23 mi
- Cathedralcommunity, 26 mi
- Centertown, 28 mi
- Bonanzatown, 30 mi
- Moffattown, 34 mi
- Monte Vistacity, 35 mi
- Powderhornski area, 37 mi
Mountain passes near Moon Pass
- Carnero Pass6 mi
- Milk Cow Pass9 mi
- Cochetopa Pass13 mi
- Halfmoon Pass15 mi
- North Pass16 mi
- San Luis Pass24 mi
- Los Pinos Pass25 mi
- Ute Pass26 mi