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Beside a road/2.0 mi away/9,358 ft/27 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/Colorado/Pass Creek Pass
Pass Creek Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Costilla County, Colorado, at 9,385 ft25°
48°/24°
Overcast·
Feels like 20°·Light air 4 mph ESE
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 58° after 48° today.
Now. Pass Creek Pass is 25° and overcast at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 20°. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° 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. Highs stay close to 57° all week. Rain is possible Thursday (42%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:27 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
34Air quality
79%Humidity
91%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
25feels20
now, overcast
Today
Oct 16
4824
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5830
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
5736
14%
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
5538
15%
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
5538
16%
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
5640
20%
Thu
Oct 22
5641
42%
25°
48°24°
58°30°
57°36°
55°38°
55°38°
56°40°
56°41°
As of 6:00 AM in Pass Creek Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Pass Creek Pass
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, San Luis Valley (CO), 36 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)34Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)12Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Pass Creek Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.12 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.12in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Pass Creek Pass, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Sun 12 AM, lowest 8 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 9,385 ft
- County
- Costilla County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 37.6206° N
- Longitude
- 105.2294° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Pass Creek Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Ute Creek SnotelUTCC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/7.9 mi away/10,650 ft/1,265 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Walsenburg4V1
At an airfield/24.7 mi away/6,049 ft/3,336 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW0143GW0143
In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.8 mi away/8,306 ft/1,079 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Gardner 7.9 SSWCO-HF-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/8,197 ft/1,188 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Great Sand Dunes Natl MonGSDC2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.9 mi away/7,999 ft/1,386 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
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Near Pass Creek Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Gardnercommunity, 12 mi
- La Vetatown, 14 mi
- Fort Garlandcommunity, 17 mi
- Blancatown, 20 mi
- Walsenburgcity, 24 mi
- Ryetown, 26 mi
- San Luistown, 31 mi
- Colorado Citycommunity, 31 mi
- Stonewall Gapcommunity, 33 mi
- San Acaciocommunity, 34 mi
- Beulah Valleycommunity, 34 mi
- Lynncommunity, 35 mi
Mountain passes near Pass Creek Pass
- Sangre de Cristo Pass2 mi
- North La Veta Pass2 mi
- La Veta Pass2 mi
- Veta Pass10 mi
- Mosca Pass15 mi
- Medano Pass20 mi
- Cordova Pass22 mi
- Cucharas Pass22 mi