Taylor Pass Meteorological Station390012106455401
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.3 mi away/12,210 ft/298 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Taylor Pass
Taylor Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Gunnison County, Colorado, at 11,912 ft18°
51°/13°
Clear·
Feels like 11°·Light breeze 4 mph ENE
Now. Taylor Pass is 18° and clear at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 11°. The dew point is 17°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-northeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 22° by 6 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 46°. Rain is likely Thursday (63%). Rain is possible Monday (32%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 22°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:29 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
21Air quality
85%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
18feels11
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5113
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5422
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
5024
22%
Mon
Oct 19
4626
32%
Tue
Oct 20
4726
29%
Wed
Oct 21
4826
21%
Thu
Oct 22
4627
63%
18°
51°13°
54°22°
50°24°
46°26°
47°26°
48°26°
46°27°
As of 3:00 AM in Taylor Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Taylor Pass
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Aspen (CO), 12 miles off.
21Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good12.4 mi
- Ozone21Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good12.4 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Taylor Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.30 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.30in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Taylor Pass, the next 46 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
- 11,912 ft
- County
- Gunnison County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 39.0203° N
- Longitude
- 106.7556° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Taylor Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Beside a road/12.4 mi away/11,834 ft/78 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/15.3 mi away/7,815 ft/4,097 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW1428CW1428
In a volunteer observer's own ground/33.8 mi away/7,711 ft/4,201 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Aspen 1.3 SSWCO-PT-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.8 mi away/8,084 ft/3,828 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
GothicGTHC2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.8 mi away/10,617 ft/1,295 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Gothic (GTHC2), 12.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Colorado
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Taylor Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Aspen Highlandssurveyed ski area, 11 mi
- Independence Passfeature, 12 mi
- Aspen Mountainsurveyed ski area, 12 mi
- Aspencity, 12 mi
- Buttermilksurveyed ski area, 14 mi
- Crested Buttesurveyed ski area, 14 mi
- Mount Crested Buttetown, 14 mi
- Crested Buttetown, 16 mi
- Snowmass Villagetown, 16 mi
- Snowmasssurveyed ski area, 17 mi
- Mount Elbertfeature, 18 mi
- Woody Creekcommunity, 19 mi
Mountain passes near Taylor Pass
- Pearl Pass5 mi
- Electric Pass6 mi
- Coffeepot Pass8 mi
- Conundrum Pass8 mi
- Triangle Pass8 mi
- Copper Pass9 mi
- East Maroon Pass10 mi
- Midway Pass10 mi