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temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Owl Creek Pass
Owl Creek Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Ouray County, Colorado, at 10,105 ft27°
49°/23°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 21°·Light breeze 6 mph ENE
Now. Owl Creek Pass is 27° and mostly clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 21°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-northeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 28° 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 51°, and the coolest Thursday, near 43°. Rain is likely Wednesday (51%) and Thursday (75%). Rain is possible Monday (39%) and Tuesday (48%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:35 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 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
17Air quality
93%Humidity
32%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
27feels21
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
4923
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5128
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
4730
18%
Mon
Oct 19
4533
39%
Tue
Oct 20
4434
48%
Wed
Oct 21
4635
51%
Thu
Oct 22
4335
75%
27°
49°23°
51°28°
47°30°
45°33°
44°34°
46°35°
43°35°
As of 12:00 AM in Owl Creek Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Owl Creek Pass
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Telluride (CO), 21 miles off.
17Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)17Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)8Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 5, good.
GoodModerate
- 5YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Owl Creek Pass
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 1.20 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.02in
- Last 3 days
- 1.20in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 2%
Visibility
How far you can see at Owl Creek 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
- 10,105 ft
- County
- Ouray County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 38.1583° N
- Longitude
- 107.5623° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Owl Creek Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station GW7587GW7587
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.5 mi away/9,257 ft/848 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Telluride - Lawson Hill (18)CO055
Beside a road/22.9 mi away/8,911 ft/1,194 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/23.5 mi away/9,085 ft/1,020 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Montrose 11 ENE03060
At a climate reference station/27.3 mi away/8,402 ft/1,703 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ouray 2.4 NNWCO-OR-12
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.4 mi away/7,930 ft/2,175 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Quray SpotterURYC2
At a cooperative observer's station/10.9 mi away/7,736 ft/2,369 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 Quray Spotter (URYC2), 10.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:12. measured daily
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Near Owl Creek Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Portlandcommunity, 10 mi
- Ridgwaytown, 11 mi
- Ouraycity, 11 mi
- Loghill Villagecommunity, 12 mi
- Lake Citytown, 16 mi
- Colonacommunity, 16 mi
- Silverton Mountainski area, 20 mi
- Telluridesurveyed ski area, 20 mi
- Telluridetown, 21 mi
- Mountain Villagetown, 22 mi
- Silvertontown, 25 mi
- Ophirtown, 26 mi
Mountain passes near Owl Creek Pass
- Lou Creek Pass5 mi
- Monument Pass7 mi
- Slagle Pass10 mi
- Engineer Pass13 mi
- Denver Pass14 mi
- Cinnamon Pass16 mi
- Richmond Pass16 mi
- Blue Lake Pass17 mi