Roach SnotelROAC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/9.4 mi away/9,700 ft/1,458 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Red Mountain Pass
Coming up. Tomorrow is 11 degrees warmer: a high of 55° after 44° today.
Now. Red Mountain Pass is 26° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 22°. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the west-northwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 22° 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 week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 64°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 18°.
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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Red Mountain Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 12, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Laramie (WY), 29 miles off.
Yesterday measured 2, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
0.65 in in the last 24 hours, 0.92 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 5 miles Fri 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Red Mountain Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Roach SnotelROAC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/9.4 mi away/9,700 ft/1,458 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Walden33V
At an airfield/23.8 mi away/8,150 ft/92 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Virginia Dale (35)CO036
Beside a road/30.9 mi away/6,983 ft/1,259 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Four Corners 3.0 SSECO-LR-1364
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.7 mi away/8,344 ft/102 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RusticRUTC2
At a cooperative observer's station/22.7 mi away/7,789 ft/453 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.