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At a river or reservoir gauge/4.5 mi away/12,198 ft/339 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/South Fork Pass
South Fork Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Pitkin County, Colorado, at 11,859 ft20°
51°/12°
Clear·
Feels like 15°·Light air 3 mph ENE
Now. South Fork Pass is 20° and clear at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 15°. The dew point is 17°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-northeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 22° 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 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 54°, and the coolest Monday, near 47°. Rain is likely Thursday (60%). Rain is possible Monday (32%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 21°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
23Air quality
83%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
20feels15
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5112
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5421
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
5123
21%
Mon
Oct 19
4725
32%
Tue
Oct 20
4825
29%
Wed
Oct 21
4826
20%
Thu
Oct 22
4727
60%
20°
51°12°
54°21°
51°23°
47°25°
48°25°
48°26°
47°27°
As of 4:00 AM in South Fork Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at South Fork Pass
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Aspen (CO), 12 miles off.
23Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)13Good12.6 mi
- Ozone23Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)5Good12.6 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at South Fork Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.31 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.31in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at South Fork Pass, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 11,859 ft
- County
- Pitkin County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 39.1711° N
- Longitude
- 106.5884° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest South Fork Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Beside a road/4.9 mi away/11,834 ft/25 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/15.1 mi away/9,928 ft/1,931 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Twin Lakes 5.0 WCO-LK-34
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.3 mi away/9,996 ft/1,863 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sugarloaf RsvrSGLC2
At a reservoir/12.7 mi away/9,760 ft/2,099 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Colorado
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near South Fork Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Independence Passfeature, 5 mi
- Mount Elbertfeature, 9 mi
- Norriecommunity, 12 mi
- Aspen Mountainsurveyed ski area, 12 mi
- Aspencity, 13 mi
- Twin Lakescommunity, 15 mi
- Buttermilksurveyed ski area, 15 mi
- Aspen Highlandssurveyed ski area, 15 mi
- Leadville Northcommunity, 16 mi
- Leadvillecity, 17 mi
- Woody Creekcommunity, 17 mi
- Snowmass Villagetown, 19 mi
Mountain passes near South Fork Pass
- Midway Pass4 mi
- Independence Pass4 mi
- Hagerman Pass9 mi
- Lake Pass12 mi
- Taylor Pass14 mi
- Missouri Pass17 mi
- Electric Pass17 mi
- Fancy Pass17 mi