A snow pillow on a mountain/2.5 mi away/10,785 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Puzzle Pass
Puzzle Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in La Plata County, Colorado, at 10,786 ft28°
41°/24°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 18°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NNE
Now. Puzzle Pass is 28° and mostly clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 18°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northeast at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 39° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 26° by 2 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 42°, and the coolest Thursday, near 32°. Snow is likely Tuesday (76%), Wednesday (81%) and Thursday (82%). Rain is possible Monday (43%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 25°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:40 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
19Air quality
79%Humidity
14%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
28feels18
12mph
Today
Oct 16
4124
12mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
4225
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
3727
25%
Mon
Oct 19
3729
43%
Tue
Oct 20
3429
76%
Wed
Oct 21
3629
81%
Thu
Oct 22
3228
82%
28°
41°24°
42°25°
37°27°
37°29°
34°29°
36°29°
32°28°
As of 12:00 AM in Puzzle Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Puzzle Pass
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Southern Ute Indian Reservation (CO), 10 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good23 mi
- Ozone19Good18 ppb23 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good23 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide4Good4.2 ppb23 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 47, good.
GoodModerate
- 47YesterdayOct 14
- 46TodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Puzzle Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 1.75 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 1.75in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Puzzle 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
- 10,786 ft
- County
- La Plata County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 37.4055° N
- Longitude
- 108.0340° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Puzzle Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.5 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station EW4277EW4277
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.1 mi away/6,532 ft/4,254 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Durango (22)CO058
Beside a road/12.5 mi away/6,439 ft/4,347 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/23.4 mi away/6,686 ft/4,100 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Cortez 8 SE03061
At a climate reference station/27.8 mi away/8,034 ft/2,752 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Hesperus 0.5 WNWCO-LP-107
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/8,074 ft/2,712 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Fort Lewis CoopHSPC2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.9 mi away/7,657 ft/3,129 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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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Mountain passes near Puzzle Pass
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