Montrose 11 ENE03060
At a climate reference station/17.7 mi away/8,402 ft/2,624 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Mountain passes/Colorado/Slagle Pass
Now. Slagle Pass is 28° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 23°. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the south-southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 46° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 28° 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 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 46°, and the coolest Friday, near 36°. Rain is likely Wednesday (53%), Thursday (87%) and Friday (87%). Rain is possible Monday (43%) and Tuesday (32%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 27°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:34 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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Slagle Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Telluride (CO), 26 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 11, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.43 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 7 instruments nearest Slagle Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.7 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Montrose 11 ENE03060
At a climate reference station/17.7 mi away/8,402 ft/2,624 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Black Canyon RAWSLPRC2
A remote fire weather station/17.9 mi away/8,396 ft/2,630 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW7587GW7587
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.7 mi away/9,257 ft/1,769 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/20.9 mi away/5,758 ft/5,268 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Telluride - Lawson Hill (18)CO055
Beside a road/27.5 mi away/8,911 ft/2,115 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Ridgway 5.9 NCO-OR-26
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.7 mi away/6,718 ft/4,308 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Montrose 2EMKDC2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.3 mi away/5,938 ft/5,088 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.