A snow pillow on a mountain/4.2 mi away/9,400 ft/1,185 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Weminuche Pass
Now. Weminuche Pass is 27° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 16°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northeast at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 22° 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 week. The warmest day ahead is Saturday, near 51°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 41°. Rain is likely Tuesday (65%) and Wednesday (70%). Rain is possible Monday (32%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 21°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Weminuche Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Southern Ute Indian Reservation (CO), 52 miles off.
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 47, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.45 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Weminuche Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
A snow pillow on a mountain/4.2 mi away/9,400 ft/1,185 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.8 mi away/8,923 ft/1,662 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
CreedeC24
At an airfield/23.3 mi away/8,645 ft/1,940 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Pagosa Springs (23)CO054
Beside a road/32.7 mi away/7,199 ft/3,386 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Hermit 7ESEHERC2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.0 mi away/9,044 ft/1,541 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Pagosa Springs 14.6 NWCO-HD-7
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.6 mi away/7,679 ft/2,906 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.