Lone Cone SnotelLNCC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/12.9 mi away/9,600 ft/1,292 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Sandys Fort Pass
Sandys Fort Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in San Miguel County, Colorado, at 8,308 ft36°
55°/30°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 31°·Light breeze 7 mph E
Now. Sandys Fort Pass is 36° and mostly clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 31°. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 30° 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 Saturday, near 59°, and the coolest Sunday, near 54°. Rain is likely Tuesday (59%) and Wednesday (60%). Rain is possible Monday (36%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
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 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.
0UV Low
20Air quality
85%Humidity
13%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
36feels31
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 15
5530
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
5629
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5933
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
5436
14%
Mon
Oct 19
5538
36%
Tue
Oct 20
5540
59%
Wed
Oct 21
5640
60%
36°
55°30°
56°29°
59°33°
54°36°
55°38°
55°40°
56°40°
As of 10:00 PM in Sandys Fort Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Sandys Fort Pass
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Southern Ute Indian Reservation (CO), 49 miles off.
20Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)13Good-
- Ozone20Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 47, good.
GoodModerate
- 47YesterdayOct 14
- 42TodayOct 15
- 46FriOct 16
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sandys Fort Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.91 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.91in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Sandys Fort Pass, the next 45 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
- 8,308 ft
- County
- San Miguel County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 37.9686° N
- Longitude
- 108.4120° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Sandys Fort Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 11.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
NuclaAIB
At an airfield/20.4 mi away/5,939 ft/2,369 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW1216GW1216
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.1 mi away/9,246 ft/938 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Telluride - Lawson Hill (18)CO055
Beside a road/28.9 mi away/8,911 ft/603 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Norwood 1.5 SCO-SM-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.7 mi away/7,260 ft/1,048 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
TellurideTELC2
At a cooperative observer's station/29.4 mi away/8,669 ft/361 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
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Near Sandys Fort Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Norwoodtown, 13 mi
- Redvalecommunity, 14 mi
- Naturitatown, 19 mi
- Placervillecommunity, 20 mi
- Nuclatown, 22 mi
- Sawpittown, 22 mi
- Ricotown, 28 mi
- Mountain Villagetown, 30 mi
- Dove Creektown, 30 mi
- Telluridetown, 33 mi
- Ophirtown, 33 mi
- Telluridesurveyed ski area, 33 mi
Mountain passes near Sandys Fort Pass
- Lizard Head Pass30 mi
- Columbine Pass31 mi
- Bolam Pass33 mi
- Blue Lake Pass34 mi
- Ophir Pass35 mi
- Imogene Pass37 mi
- Red Mountain Pass38 mi
- Richmond Pass39 mi