Columbine SnotelCOLC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/0.8 mi away/9,160 ft/269 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Rabbit Ears Pass
Rabbit Ears Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Jackson County, Colorado, at 9,429 ft29°
54°/25°
Clear·
Feels like 21°·Gentle breeze 8 mph SW
Now. Rabbit Ears Pass is 29° and clear at 5 AM. With the wind it feels like 21°. The dew point is 23°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the southwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 2 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 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 56°, and the coolest Friday, near 46°. Rain or snow is likely Thursday (56%) and Friday (81%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:23 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
33Air quality
89%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
5:00 AM
29feels21
now, clear
Today
Oct 17
5425
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
5531
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5433
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
5335
10%
Wed
Oct 21
5635
partly cloudy day
Thu
Oct 22
5537
56%
Fri
Oct 23
4637
81%
13mph
29°
54°25°
55°31°
54°33°
53°35°
56°35°
55°37°
46°37°
As of 5:00 AM in Rabbit Ears Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Rabbit Ears Pass
Index 33, good, led by fine particles. Read at 5 AM from its reporting area, Steamboat Springs (CO), 14 miles off.
33Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)33Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)9Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 20, good.
GoodModerate
- 20YesterdayOct 16
- GoodTodayOct 17
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Mon 12 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Rabbit Ears Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.44 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.44in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Rabbit Ears Pass, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 9,429 ft
- County
- Jackson County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 40.3847° N
- Longitude
- 106.6117° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Rabbit Ears Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Walton PeakC07
At an airfield/5.1 mi away/10,534 ft/1,105 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/12.2 mi away/6,751 ft/2,678 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW5627GW5627
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.3 mi away/7,667 ft/1,762 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Rabbit Ears Pass 2.4 ESECO-GR-103
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/8,679 ft/750 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Steamboat SpringsSBTC2
At a cooperative observer's station/15.7 mi away/6,739 ft/2,690 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 Rabbit Ears Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Steamboatsurveyed ski area, 11 mi
- Steamboat Springscity, 13 mi
- Howelsen Hillski area, 14 mi
- Oak Creektown, 20 mi
- Phippsburgcommunity, 21 mi
- Yampatown, 22 mi
- Kremmlingtown, 25 mi
- Waldentown, 30 mi
- Parshallcommunity, 32 mi
- McCoycommunity, 33 mi
- Hot Sulphur Springstown, 34 mi
- Haydentown, 35 mi
Mountain passes near Rabbit Ears Pass
- Muddy Pass2 mi
- Arapaho Pass7 mi
- Indian Pass11 mi
- Buffalo Pass12 mi
- Yellow Jacket Pass15 mi
- Buffalo Pass19 mi
- Gunsight Pass19 mi
- Lynx Pass20 mi