Deadman Hill SnotelDDMC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/7.1 mi away/10,220 ft/1,250 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Sand Creek Pass
Sand Creek Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Larimer County, Colorado, at 8,970 ft22°
52°/17°
Clear·
Feels like 14°·Light breeze 6 mph WNW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 60° after 52° today.
Now. Sand Creek Pass is 22° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 14°. The dew point is 21°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 29° 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. Highs stay close to 59° all week. Rain is possible Thursday (32%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 26°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:21 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:18 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 6 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
9Air quality
93%Humidity
11%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
22feels14
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5217
clear day
Sat
Oct 17
6026
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
5830
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
5730
partly cloudy day
Tue
Oct 20
5831
11%
Wed
Oct 21
6033
11%
Thu
Oct 22
5935
32%
22°
52°17°
60°26°
58°30°
57°30°
58°31°
60°33°
59°35°
As of 1:00 AM in Sand Creek Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Sand Creek Pass
Index 9, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Laramie (WY), 30 miles off.
9Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)9Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 2, good.
GoodModerate
- 2YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sand Creek Pass
0.71 in in the last 24 hours, 0.94 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.71in
- Last 3 days
- 0.94in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 76%
Visibility
How far you can see at Sand Creek Pass, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 2 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 8,970 ft
- County
- Larimer County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 40.8978° N
- Longitude
- 105.8297° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Sand Creek Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Walden33V
At an airfield/25.2 mi away/8,150 ft/820 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Virginia Dale (35)CO036
Beside a road/25.5 mi away/6,983 ft/1,987 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/5.3 mi away/8,344 ft/626 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RusticRUTC2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.9 mi away/7,789 ft/1,181 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Colorado
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Sand Creek Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Red Feather Lakescommunity, 14 mi
- Waldentown, 26 mi
- Estes Parktown, 40 mi
- Laportecommunity, 40 mi
- Grand Laketown, 45 mi
- Fort Collinscity, 45 mi
- Wellingtontown, 45 mi
- Allensparkcommunity, 51 mi
- Lovelandcity, 52 mi
- Timnathtown, 53 mi
- Lyonstown, 55 mi
- Windsortown, 56 mi
Mountain passes near Sand Creek Pass
- Horse Ranch Pass7 mi
- Red Mountain Pass8 mi
- Ute Pass13 mi
- Grassy Pass16 mi
- Montgomery Pass25 mi
- Cameron Pass26 mi
- Mummy Pass28 mi
- White Pine Pass28 mi