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A snow pillow on a mountain/1.8 mi away/10,500 ft/2,018 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Whiskey Pass
Whiskey Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Costilla County, Colorado, at 12,518 ft17°
34°/13°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 9°·Light breeze 5 mph NNE
Coming up. Tomorrow is 12 degrees warmer: a high of 46° after 34° today.
Now. Whiskey Pass is 17° and mostly clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 9°. The dew point is 17°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 5 mph, gusting to 15 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 34° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 17° by 11 PM, 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 Sunday, near 48°, and the coolest Monday, near 44°. Rain is possible Thursday (47%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 15°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 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 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
24Air quality
100%Humidity
34%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
17feels9
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
3413
11%
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
4615
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
4821
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
4424
14%
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
4525
18%
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
4627
26%
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
4529
47%
17°
34°13°
46°15°
48°21°
44°24°
45°25°
46°27°
45°29°
As of 12:00 AM in Whiskey Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Whiskey Pass
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, San Luis Valley (CO), 47 miles off.
24Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)12Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 12, good.
GoodModerate
- 12YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Whiskey Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.09 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.09in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Whiskey Pass, the next 43 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
- 12,518 ft
- County
- Costilla County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 37.2022° N
- Longitude
- 105.1675° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Whiskey Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
La Veta Pass (74)CO028
Beside a road/28.7 mi away/9,358 ft/3,160 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Walsenburg4V1
At an airfield/39.9 mi away/6,049 ft/6,469 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Weston 1.8 NWCO-LA-49
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.8 mi away/7,980 ft/4,538 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Aguilar 18WSWAGRC2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.3 mi away/8,684 ft/3,834 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
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Near Whiskey Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Stonewall Gapcommunity, 8 mi
- San Luistown, 14 mi
- Westoncommunity, 18 mi
- Fort Garlandcommunity, 22 mi
- San Acaciocommunity, 22 mi
- La Vetatown, 23 mi
- Segundocommunity, 25 mi
- Blancatown, 25 mi
- Valdezcommunity, 27 mi
- Cokedaletown, 30 mi
- Aguilartown, 31 mi
- Lynncommunity, 32 mi
Mountain passes near Whiskey Pass
- Cucharas Pass10 mi
- Cordova Pass13 mi
- San Francisco Pass19 mi
- Cottontail Pass19 mi
- Veta Pass20 mi
- La Veta Pass27 mi
- North La Veta Pass28 mi
- Sangre de Cristo Pass29 mi