Basalt (8*)CO101
Beside a road/5.5 mi away/6,612 ft/2,926 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/Colorado/Taylor Creek Pass
Now. Taylor Creek Pass is 27° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 20°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° 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 sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. Highs stay close to 57° all week. Rain is likely Thursday (54%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:28 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Taylor Creek Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Aspen (CO), 18 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 35, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.46 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 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 Taylor Creek Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Basalt (8*)CO101
Beside a road/5.5 mi away/6,612 ft/2,926 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Crown RAWSCRWC2
A remote fire weather station/8.3 mi away/8,212 ft/1,326 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/14.9 mi away/7,815 ft/1,723 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Basalt 5.8 ECO-EG-6
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/7,164 ft/2,374 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Glenwood Springs - ShoshoneGWDC2
At a cooperative observer's station/17.1 mi away/6,215 ft/3,323 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.