Andrews Creek Meteorological Station At Rmnp401723105400101
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.3 mi away/9,800 ft/2,372 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Ptarmigan Pass
Ptarmigan Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Grand County, Colorado, at 12,172 ft16°
32°/19°
Clear·
Feels like 5°·Gentle breeze 8 mph WNW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 42° after 32° today.
Now. Ptarmigan Pass is 16° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 5°. The dew point is 16°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west-northwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 13° by 3 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 Saturday, near 49°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 42°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 10°.
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 south-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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
39Air quality
73%Humidity
5%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
16feels5
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
3219
86%
12mph
UV 6
Fri
Oct 16
4210
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
4920
12mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
4825
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
4425
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
4625
21%
Wed
Oct 21
4828
11%
16°
32°19°
42°10°
49°20°
48°25°
44°25°
46°25°
48°28°
As of 11:00 PM in Ptarmigan Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Ptarmigan Pass
Index 39, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Fort Collins (CO), 37 miles off.
39Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)15Good-
- Ozone39Good45 ppb8.5 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 37, good.
GoodModerate
- 37YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Ptarmigan Pass
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, 0.61 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.01in
- Last 3 days
- 0.61in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 2%
Visibility
How far you can see at Ptarmigan Pass, the next 44 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
- 12,172 ft
- County
- Grand County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 40.3105° N
- Longitude
- 105.7011° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Ptarmigan Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Lily Lake (35)CO045
Beside a road/8.6 mi away/8,920 ft/3,252 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
GranbyGNB
At an airfield/18.8 mi away/8,208 ft/3,964 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW5341GW5341
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.2 mi away/8,049 ft/4,123 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Boulder 14 W94075
At a climate reference station/21.2 mi away/9,828 ft/2,344 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Grand Lake .36 ECO-GR-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.3 mi away/8,425 ft/3,747 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Grand LakeGLKC2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.5 mi away/8,793 ft/3,379 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
Elsewhere in Colorado
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Ptarmigan Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Grand Laketown, 8 mi
- Estes Parktown, 11 mi
- Allensparkcommunity, 12 mi
- Hidden Lakecommunity, 18 mi
- Wardtown, 19 mi
- Bark Ranchcommunity, 19 mi
- Granbytown, 20 mi
- Jamestowntown, 21 mi
- Granby Ranchski area, 22 mi
- Gold Hillcommunity, 23 mi
- Glendalecommunity, 23 mi
- Lyonstown, 24 mi
Mountain passes near Ptarmigan Pass
- Sprague Pass2 mi
- Andrews Pass2 mi
- Stone Man Pass4 mi
- Timberline Pass5 mi
- Granite Pass6 mi
- Boulder-Grand Pass6 mi
- Storm Pass7 mi
- Iceberg Pass8 mi