CreedeC24
At an airfield/10.5 mi away/8,645 ft/3,296 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/San Luis Pass
Now. San Luis Pass is 19° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 13°. The dew point is 19°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 44° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 22° by 6 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 48°, and the coolest Thursday, near 37°. Rain is likely Wednesday (52%) and Thursday (74%). Rain is possible Tuesday (46%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 21°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:33 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in San Luis Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Telluride (CO), 46 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 11, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.71 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. 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 5 instruments nearest San Luis Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
CreedeC24
At an airfield/10.5 mi away/8,645 ft/3,296 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Slumgullion SnotelSLMC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/12.6 mi away/11,440 ft/501 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.1 mi away/8,923 ft/3,018 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Creede 0.2 SSECO-MN-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.9 mi away/8,812 ft/3,129 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/10.3 mi away/8,660 ft/3,281 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.