Columbine SnotelCOLC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/1.8 mi away/9,160 ft/539 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Muddy Pass
Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees warmer: a high of 51° after 40° today.
Now. Muddy Pass is 27° and clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 19°. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 20° by 7 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 Wednesday, near 56°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 20°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Muddy Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Medicine Bow National Forest (WY), 70 miles off.
Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 0.63 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 3 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Muddy Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Columbine SnotelCOLC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/1.8 mi away/9,160 ft/539 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Walton PeakC07
At an airfield/6.5 mi away/10,534 ft/1,913 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/14.0 mi away/6,751 ft/1,870 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW5627GW5627
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.0 mi away/7,667 ft/954 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Rabbit Ears Pass 2.4 ESECO-GR-103
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/8,679 ft/58 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Steamboat SpringsSBTC2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.5 mi away/6,739 ft/1,882 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.