A snow pillow on a mountain/0.5 mi away/11,200 ft/82 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Red Mountain Pass
Now. Red Mountain Pass is 24° and partly cloudy at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 14°. The dew point is 21°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northeast at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 17° by 3 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 Saturday, near 46°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 38°. Rain is likely Tuesday (60%) and Wednesday (64%). Rain is possible Monday (42%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 16°.
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 15 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Red Mountain Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Southern Ute Indian Reservation (CO), 48 miles off.
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 47, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 1.45 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 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 0.5 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
A snow pillow on a mountain/0.5 mi away/11,200 ft/82 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Telluride - Lawson Hill (18)CO055
Beside a road/9.7 mi away/8,911 ft/2,207 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/11.4 mi away/9,085 ft/2,033 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW1216GW1216
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.4 mi away/9,246 ft/1,872 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
SilvertonSLVC2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.2 mi away/9,416 ft/1,702 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Silverton 0.2 NCO-SJ-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.4 mi away/9,332 ft/1,786 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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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.