Saint Elmo SnotelCTEC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/3.7 mi away/10,540 ft/1,420 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Tincup Pass
Tincup Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Gunnison County, Colorado, at 11,960 ft20°
48°/15°
Clear·
Feels like 12°·Light breeze 6 mph NE
Now. Tincup Pass is 20° and clear at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 12°. The dew point is 15°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 24° 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 53°, and the coolest Monday, near 46°. Rain is likely Thursday (61%). Rain is possible Tuesday (31%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 22°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 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 11 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
21Air quality
55%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
20feels12
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
4815
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5322
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
5025
21%
Mon
Oct 19
4627
28%
Tue
Oct 20
4727
31%
Wed
Oct 21
4827
21%
Thu
Oct 22
4629
61%
20°
48°15°
53°22°
50°25°
46°27°
47°27°
48°27°
46°29°
As of 3:00 AM in Tincup Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Tincup Pass
Index 21, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Aspen (CO), 39 miles off.
21Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good-
- Ozone21Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
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 Tincup Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.39 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
- 0.39in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Tincup 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
- 11,960 ft
- County
- Gunnison County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 38.7153° N
- Longitude
- 106.4345° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Tincup Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/12.6 mi away/9,826 ft/2,134 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Monarch Pass (60)CO056
Beside a road/16.2 mi away/11,263 ft/697 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station CW1428CW1428
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.1 mi away/7,711 ft/4,249 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pitkin 8.0 ESECO-GN-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.6 mi away/9,970 ft/1,990 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Taylor ParkTRBC2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.8 mi away/9,334 ft/2,626 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 Tincup Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Pitkintown, 8 mi
- Garfieldcommunity, 14 mi
- Maysvillecommunity, 18 mi
- Buena Vistatown, 18 mi
- Johnson Villagecommunity, 19 mi
- Nathropcommunity, 19 mi
- Poncha Springstown, 24 mi
- Smeltertowncommunity, 26 mi
- Salidacity, 27 mi
- Twin Lakescommunity, 27 mi
- Mount Elbertfeature, 28 mi
- Independence Passfeature, 28 mi
Mountain passes near Tincup Pass
- Napoleon Pass2 mi
- Cumberland Pass3 mi
- Williams Pass6 mi
- Hancock Pass7 mi
- Cottonwood Pass8 mi
- Tomichi Pass8 mi
- Chalk Creek Pass9 mi
- Gunsight Pass9 mi