A snow pillow on a mountain/3.5 mi away/11,000 ft/60 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Railroad Pass
Railroad Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Mineral County, Colorado, at 11,060 ft24°
45°/16°
Clear·
Feels like 9°·Fresh breeze 19 mph NNE
Now. Railroad Pass is 24° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 9°. The dew point is 14°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northeast at 19 mph, gusting to 34 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 45° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 20° by 5 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 47°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 37°. Rain is likely Tuesday (73%), Wednesday (75%) and Thursday (83%). Rain is possible Monday (33%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 18°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:34 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
27Air quality
74%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
24feels9
19mph
Today
Oct 16
4516
19mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
4718
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
4322
14%
Mon
Oct 19
4024
33%
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
3726
73%
Wed
Oct 21
3927
75%
Thu
Oct 22
3727
83%
24°
45°16°
47°18°
43°22°
40°24°
37°26°
39°27°
37°27°
As of 1:00 AM in Railroad Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Railroad Pass
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, San Luis Valley (CO), 47 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)27Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)12Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 12, good.
GoodModerate
- 12YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Railroad Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 2.25 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
- 2.25in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Railroad 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
- 11,060 ft
- County
- Mineral County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 37.4611° N
- Longitude
- 106.7420° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Railroad Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Pagosa Springs (23)CO054
Beside a road/20.6 mi away/7,199 ft/3,861 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/21.1 mi away/7,664 ft/3,396 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.6 mi away/8,923 ft/2,137 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pagosa Springs 7.2 ENECO-AU-88
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.7 mi away/8,437 ft/2,623 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Del NorteDLNC2
At a cooperative observer's station/25.7 mi away/7,999 ft/3,061 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Del Norte (DLNC2), 25.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Colorado
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Railroad Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Wolf Creek Passfeature, 4 mi
- Wolf Creekski area, 7 mi
- South Forktown, 15 mi
- Gerrardcommunity, 18 mi
- Alpinecommunity, 18 mi
- Pagosa Springstown, 20 mi
- Piedracommunity, 24 mi
- Del Nortetown, 26 mi
- City of Creedetown, 29 mi
- Monte Vistacity, 34 mi
- Capulincommunity, 37 mi
- Centertown, 40 mi
Mountain passes near Railroad Pass
- Bonito Pass2 mi
- Wolf Creek Pass3 mi
- Summit Pass6 mi
- Elwood Pass7 mi
- Windy Pass7 mi
- Meadow Pass8 mi
- Stunner Pass12 mi
- Gunsight Pass14 mi