Ripple Creek SnotelRCPC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/0.3 mi away/10,340 ft/10 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Ripple Creek Pass
Ripple Creek Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Garfield County, Colorado, at 10,350 ft23°
49°/20°
Clear·
Feels like 16°·Light breeze 5 mph ENE
Now. Ripple Creek Pass is 23° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 16°. The dew point is 22°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-northeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 46° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 28° by 1 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 tomorrow, near 53°, and the coolest Monday, near 49°. Rain is likely Thursday (59%). Rain is possible Tuesday (37%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 27°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:27 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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
17Air quality
85%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
23feels16
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
4920
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
5327
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
5029
partly cloudy day
Mon
Oct 19
4931
16%
Tue
Oct 20
4933
37%
Wed
Oct 21
5234
27%
Thu
Oct 22
4934
59%
23°
49°20°
53°27°
50°29°
49°31°
49°33°
52°34°
49°34°
As of 12:00 AM in Ripple Creek Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Ripple Creek Pass
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Steamboat Springs (CO), 36 miles off.
17Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)17Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 10, good.
GoodModerate
- 10YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Ripple Creek Pass
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 1.15 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.02in
- Last 3 days
- 1.15in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 2%
Visibility
How far you can see at Ripple Creek Pass, the next 43 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
- 10,350 ft
- County
- Garfield County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 40.1119° N
- Longitude
- 107.2956° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Ripple Creek Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/25.7 mi away/6,601 ft/3,749 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW5627GW5627
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.1 mi away/7,667 ft/2,683 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/34.6 mi away/6,751 ft/3,599 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Yampa 0.4 WNWCO-RT-84
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.4 mi away/7,860 ft/2,490 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Hayden CoopHAYC2
At a cooperative observer's station/26.4 mi away/6,470 ft/3,880 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 Hayden Coop (HAYC2), 26.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 18:00. measured daily
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Near Ripple Creek Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Phippsburgcommunity, 20 mi
- Yampatown, 21 mi
- Oak Creektown, 21 mi
- Carbonatetown, 25 mi
- Haydentown, 26 mi
- Craigcity, 31 mi
- Meekertown, 33 mi
- McCoycommunity, 33 mi
- Dotserocommunity, 34 mi
- Howelsen Hillski area, 35 mi
- Steamboatsurveyed ski area, 35 mi
- Steamboat Springscity, 36 mi
Mountain passes near Ripple Creek Pass
- Yellowjacket Pass8 mi
- Mandall Pass9 mi
- Dunckley Pass10 mi
- Indian Camp Pass20 mi
- Yellow Jacket Pass26 mi
- Lynx Pass32 mi
- Gore Pass39 mi
- Rabbit Ears Pass41 mi