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A snow pillow on a mountain/3.8 mi away/11,250 ft/153 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Piedra Pass
Piedra Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Mineral County, Colorado, at 11,403 ft22°
46°/16°
Clear·
Feels like 9°·Moderate breeze 13 mph NNE
Now. Piedra Pass is 22° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 9°. The dew point is 16°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northeast at 13 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 46° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 21° by 4 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 49°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 39°. Rain is likely Tuesday (67%), Wednesday (70%) and Thursday (81%). Rain is possible Monday (30%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 19°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
17Air quality
33%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
22feels9
13mph
Today
Oct 16
4616
14mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
4919
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
4522
14%
Mon
Oct 19
4224
30%
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
3926
67%
Wed
Oct 21
4127
70%
Thu
Oct 22
3927
81%
22°
46°16°
49°19°
45°22°
42°24°
39°26°
41°27°
39°27°
As of 1:00 AM in Piedra Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Piedra Pass
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Telluride (CO), 51 miles off.
17Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)17Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 5, good.
GoodModerate
- 5YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Piedra Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 1.65 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 1.65in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Piedra Pass, the next 42 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
- 11,403 ft
- County
- Mineral County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 37.5714° N
- Longitude
- 107.0012° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Piedra Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.7 mi away/8,923 ft/2,480 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
CreedeC24
At an airfield/17.8 mi away/8,645 ft/2,758 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Pagosa Springs (23)CO054
Beside a road/21.0 mi away/7,199 ft/4,204 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Pagosa Springs 9.0 NNWCO-MN-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.5 mi away/8,816 ft/2,587 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Hermit 7ESEHERC2
At a cooperative observer's station/15.1 mi away/9,044 ft/2,359 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Colorado
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Piedra Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Wolf Creekski area, 10 mi
- Wolf Creek Passfeature, 12 mi
- Piedracommunity, 13 mi
- City of Creedetown, 20 mi
- South Forktown, 21 mi
- Pagosa Springstown, 21 mi
- Gerrardcommunity, 24 mi
- Alpinecommunity, 24 mi
- Cathedralcommunity, 35 mi
- Lake Citytown, 36 mi
- Del Nortetown, 36 mi
- Silvertontown, 40 mi
Mountain passes near Piedra Pass
- Grizzly Pass12 mi
- Wolf Creek Pass13 mi
- Windy Pass13 mi
- Windy Pass13 mi
- Santa Maria Pass15 mi
- Railroad Pass16 mi
- Meadow Pass17 mi
- Bonito Pass18 mi