A snow pillow on a mountain/4.2 mi away/10,200 ft/254 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Windy Pass
Windy Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Mineral County, Colorado, at 9,946 ft29°
50°/21°
Clear·
Feels like 16°·Fresh breeze 19 mph NNE
Now. Windy Pass is 29° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 16°. The dew point is 16°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northeast at 19 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 25° 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. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 52°, and the coolest Tuesday, near 42°. Rain is likely Tuesday (74%), Wednesday (76%) and Thursday (83%). Rain is possible Monday (33%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 23°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:35 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
33%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
29feels16
19mph
Today
Oct 16
5021
19mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5223
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
4827
14%
Mon
Oct 19
4529
33%
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
4231
74%
Wed
Oct 21
4432
76%
Thu
Oct 22
4232
83%
29°
50°21°
52°23°
48°27°
45°29°
42°31°
44°32°
42°32°
As of 1:00 AM in Windy Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Windy Pass
Index 27, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, San Luis Valley (CO), 53 miles off.
27Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)27Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)12Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 12, good.
GoodModerate
- 12YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Windy Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 1.60 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
- 1.60in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Windy 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
- 9,946 ft
- County
- Mineral County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 37.4267° N
- Longitude
- 106.8539° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Windy 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
Pagosa Springs (23)CO054
Beside a road/14.6 mi away/7,199 ft/2,747 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/14.7 mi away/7,664 ft/2,282 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/19.7 mi away/7,449 ft/2,497 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pagosa Springs 6.2 NECO-AU-63
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.9 mi away/7,400 ft/2,546 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Hermit 7ESEHERC2
At a cooperative observer's station/27.6 mi away/9,044 ft/902 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 Windy Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Wolf Creekski area, 3 mi
- Wolf Creek Passfeature, 5 mi
- Pagosa Springstown, 14 mi
- Piedracommunity, 18 mi
- South Forktown, 20 mi
- Gerrardcommunity, 23 mi
- Alpinecommunity, 23 mi
- City of Creedetown, 30 mi
- Del Nortetown, 32 mi
- Monte Vistacity, 40 mi
- Arbolescommunity, 42 mi
- Capulincommunity, 42 mi
Mountain passes near Windy Pass
- Wolf Creek Pass5 mi
- Railroad Pass7 mi
- Bonito Pass8 mi
- Summit Pass11 mi
- Elwood Pass12 mi
- Windy Pass12 mi
- Piedra Pass13 mi
- Meadow Pass14 mi