At a river or reservoir gauge/10.4 mi away/11,411 ft/1,113 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Waunita Pass
Waunita Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Gunnison County, Colorado, at 10,298 ft24°
51°/19°
Clear·
Feels like 15°·Gentle breeze 8 mph ENE
Now. Waunita Pass is 24° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 15°. The dew point is 22°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east-northeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 26° 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 55°, and the coolest Monday, near 49°. Rain is likely Thursday (58%). Rain is possible Tuesday (30%) and Wednesday (30%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 24°.
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 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
18Air quality
79%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
24feels15
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5119
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5524
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
5227
13%
Mon
Oct 19
4930
22%
Tue
Oct 20
5030
30%
Wed
Oct 21
5131
30%
Thu
Oct 22
4933
58%
24°
51°19°
55°24°
52°27°
49°30°
50°30°
51°31°
49°33°
As of 2:00 AM in Waunita Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Waunita Pass
Index 18, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Aspen (CO), 45 miles off.
18Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)18Good-
- Ozone18Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)9Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 10, good.
GoodModerate
- 10YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Waunita Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.24 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.24in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Waunita Pass, the next 41 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
- 10,298 ft
- County
- Gunnison County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 38.5783° N
- Longitude
- 106.5095° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Waunita Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Monarch Pass (60)CO056
Beside a road/11.4 mi away/11,263 ft/965 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/21.1 mi away/9,826 ft/472 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW1428CW1428
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.8 mi away/7,711 ft/2,587 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pitkin 5.8 WSWCO-GN-74
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/8,611 ft/1,687 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
SargentsSGTC2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.9 mi away/8,458 ft/1,840 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 Waunita Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Pitkintown, 2 mi
- Garfieldcommunity, 12 mi
- Maysvillecommunity, 17 mi
- Gunnisoncity, 23 mi
- Poncha Springstown, 24 mi
- Nathropcommunity, 26 mi
- Buena Vistatown, 27 mi
- Smeltertowncommunity, 27 mi
- Johnson Villagecommunity, 27 mi
- Salidacity, 28 mi
- Bonanzatown, 28 mi
- Crested Buttetown, 32 mi
Mountain passes near Waunita Pass
- Black Sage Pass7 mi
- Tomichi Pass7 mi
- Cumberland Pass8 mi
- Williams Pass8 mi
- Hancock Pass8 mi
- Gunsight Pass9 mi
- Chalk Creek Pass9 mi
- Napoleon Pass9 mi