Vail Mountain SnotelVLMC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/4.9 mi away/10,300 ft/679 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Two Elk Pass
Two Elk Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Eagle County, Colorado, at 10,979 ft21°
49°/18°
Clear·
Feels like 21°·Light air 3 mph SE
Now. Two Elk Pass is 21° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 10°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 27° 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 52°, and the coolest Monday, near 47°. Rain is possible Thursday (45%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 26°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:25 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.
0UV Low
19Air quality
62%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
21feels21
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
4918
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5226
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
4928
partly cloudy day
Mon
Oct 19
4731
23%
Tue
Oct 20
4831
27%
Wed
Oct 21
5031
15%
Thu
Oct 22
4833
45%
21°
49°18°
52°26°
49°28°
47°31°
48°31°
50°31°
48°33°
As of 1:00 AM in Two Elk Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Two Elk Pass
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Aspen (CO), 40 miles off.
19Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good-
- Ozone17Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)10Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 35, good.
GoodModerate
- 35YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Two Elk Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.20 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.20in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Two Elk Pass, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 10,979 ft
- County
- Eagle County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 39.5925° N
- Longitude
- 106.2942° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Two Elk Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Vail Pass (34)CO070
Beside a road/6.0 mi away/10,563 ft/416 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/11.1 mi away/12,073 ft/1,094 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW5575GW5575
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.6 mi away/12,322 ft/1,343 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Vail 3.9 ESECO-EG-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.3 mi away/8,566 ft/2,413 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
DillonDLLC2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.0 mi away/9,222 ft/1,757 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
1in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Dillon (DLLC2), 14.0 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 Two Elk Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Vailsurveyed ski area, 3 mi
- Vailtown, 6 mi
- Red Clifftown, 7 mi
- Minturntown, 7 mi
- Copper Mountaincommunity, 9 mi
- Copper Mountainsurveyed ski area, 10 mi
- Friscotown, 11 mi
- Beaver Creeksurveyed ski area, 12 mi
- Silverthornetown, 12 mi
- Avontown, 13 mi
- Dillontown, 14 mi
- Breckenridgetown, 15 mi
Mountain passes near Two Elk Pass
- Shrine Pass4 mi
- Vail Pass6 mi
- Red Buffalo Pass7 mi
- Eccles Pass7 mi
- Uneva Pass7 mi
- Ptarmigan Pass7 mi
- Searle Pass10 mi
- Half Moon Pass11 mi