Cucharas RiverCLVC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.1 mi away/7,808 ft/1,432 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Veta Pass
Veta Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Costilla County, Colorado, at 9,240 ft5°
18°/-4°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like -7°·Light breeze 7 mph E
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 28° after 18° today.
Now. Veta Pass is 5° and mostly cloudy at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like -7°. The dew point is -2°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 18° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 3° by 4 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 27° all week. Rain is possible Thursday (46%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 1°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 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 13 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
28Air quality
91%Humidity
69%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
5feels-7
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
18-4
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
281
12mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
279
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
2510
13%
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
2511
20%
12mph
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
2613
26%
12mph
Thu
Oct 22
2613
46%
5°
18°-4°
28°1°
27°9°
25°10°
25°11°
26°13°
26°13°
As of 3:00 AM in Veta Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Veta Pass
Index 28, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, San Luis Valley (CO), 40 miles off.
28Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)28Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)12Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Veta Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.11 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
- 0.11in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Veta Pass, the next 46 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 9,240 ft
- County
- Costilla County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 37.4853° N
- Longitude
- 105.1750° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Veta Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
La Veta Pass (74)CO028
Beside a road/9.2 mi away/9,358 ft/118 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Walsenburg4V1
At an airfield/25.6 mi away/6,049 ft/3,191 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW0143GW0143
In a volunteer observer's own ground/37.6 mi away/8,306 ft/934 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
La Veta 8.1 WCO-HF-53
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/8,558 ft/682 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Aguilar 18WSWAGRC2
At a cooperative observer's station/16.9 mi away/8,684 ft/556 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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Near Veta Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- La Vetatown, 9 mi
- Fort Garlandcommunity, 15 mi
- Blancatown, 19 mi
- Gardnercommunity, 21 mi
- Walsenburgcity, 24 mi
- Stonewall Gapcommunity, 24 mi
- San Luistown, 24 mi
- San Acaciocommunity, 28 mi
- Aguilartown, 29 mi
- Lynncommunity, 29 mi
- Westoncommunity, 30 mi
- Ryetown, 33 mi
Mountain passes near Veta Pass
- La Veta Pass8 mi
- North La Veta Pass9 mi
- Sangre de Cristo Pass9 mi
- Pass Creek Pass10 mi
- Cordova Pass13 mi
- Cucharas Pass13 mi
- Whiskey Pass20 mi
- Mosca Pass23 mi