Elk River SnotelELKC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/4.0 mi away/8,700 ft/395 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Red Dirt Pass
Red Dirt Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Jackson County, Colorado, at 8,305 ft26°
55°/23°
Clear·
Feels like 20°·Light breeze 5 mph NE
Now. Red Dirt Pass is 26° and clear at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 20°. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. Highs stay close to 57° all week. Rain is possible Thursday (44%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:22 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
88%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
26feels20
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5523
clear day
Sat
Oct 17
5832
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
5835
partly cloudy day
Mon
Oct 19
5639
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
5740
21%
Wed
Oct 21
5842
17%
Thu
Oct 22
5743
44%
26°
55°23°
58°32°
58°35°
56°39°
57°40°
58°42°
57°43°
As of 3:00 AM in Red Dirt Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Red Dirt Pass
Index 16, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Steamboat Springs (CO), 23 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)16Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 12, good.
GoodModerate
- 12YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 40 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Red Dirt Pass
0.03 in in the last 24 hours, 0.72 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.03in
- Last 3 days
- 0.72in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 4%
Visibility
How far you can see at Red Dirt Pass, the next 40 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
- 8,305 ft
- County
- Jackson County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 40.8244° N
- Longitude
- 106.8978° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Red Dirt 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 now4 instruments
At an airfield/21.4 mi away/6,877 ft/1,428 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/25.5 mi away/6,751 ft/1,554 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW5627GW5627
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.3 mi away/7,667 ft/638 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Clark 6.8 NCO-RT-36
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/8,103 ft/202 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Steamboat SpringsSBTC2
At a cooperative observer's station/22.2 mi away/6,739 ft/1,566 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 Red Dirt Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Steamboat Springscity, 24 mi
- Howelsen Hillski area, 24 mi
- Steamboatsurveyed ski area, 26 mi
- Haydentown, 30 mi
- Waldentown, 33 mi
- Oak Creektown, 38 mi
- Craigcity, 40 mi
- Phippsburgcommunity, 41 mi
- Yampatown, 46 mi
- Kremmlingtown, 59 mi
- McCoycommunity, 64 mi
- Parshallcommunity, 65 mi
Mountain passes near Red Dirt Pass
- Ute Pass14 mi
- Buffalo Pass22 mi
- Rabbit Ears Pass34 mi
- Muddy Pass35 mi
- Yellow Jacket Pass36 mi
- Arapaho Pass38 mi
- Buffalo Pass41 mi
- Ute Pass44 mi