Steamboat Springs - Yampa RiverYCAC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.2 mi away/6,928 ft/493 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Yellow Jacket Pass
Yellow Jacket Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Routt County, Colorado, at 7,421 ftFreeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the first Freeze Warning, sub-freezing temperatures as low as 24 expected. For the second Freeze Warning, sub-freezing temperatures as low as 27 expected. * WHERE...Central Yampa River Basin, Lower Yampa River Basin, Upper Yampa River Basin, San Juan River Basin, and Central Colorado River Basin. * WHEN...For the first Freeze Warning, until 10 AM MDT Friday. For the second Freeze Warning, from midnight Friday Night to 10 AM MDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
28°
61°/24°
Clear·
Feels like 24°·Light breeze 4 mph E
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Yellow Jacket Pass until 10 AM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Yellow Jacket Pass is 28° and clear at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 24°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 61° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. Highs stay close to 63° all week. Rain is possible Thursday (46%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:24 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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
89%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
28feels24
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
6124
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6432
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6335
partly cloudy day
Mon
Oct 19
6239
12%
Tue
Oct 20
6339
20%
Wed
Oct 21
6441
12%
Thu
Oct 22
6241
46%
28°
61°24°
64°32°
63°35°
62°39°
63°39°
64°41°
62°41°
As of 3:00 AM in Yellow Jacket Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Yellow Jacket Pass
Index 16, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Steamboat Springs (CO), 13 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)16Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 12, good.
GoodModerate
- 12YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Yellow Jacket Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.54 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
- 0.54in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Yellow Jacket Pass, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 7,421 ft
- County
- Routt County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 40.3030° N
- Longitude
- 106.8703° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Yellow Jacket Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW5627GW5627
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.2 mi away/7,667 ft/246 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Walton PeakC07
At an airfield/9.7 mi away/10,534 ft/3,113 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/11.1 mi away/6,751 ft/670 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Oak Creek 5.5 ENECO-RT-85
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/7,209 ft/212 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Steamboat SpringsSBTC2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.9 mi away/6,739 ft/682 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 Yellow Jacket Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Oak Creektown, 5 mi
- Phippsburgcommunity, 6 mi
- Yampatown, 11 mi
- Steamboatsurveyed ski area, 11 mi
- Howelsen Hillski area, 12 mi
- Steamboat Springscity, 13 mi
- Haydentown, 24 mi
- McCoycommunity, 28 mi
- Kremmlingtown, 31 mi
- Craigcity, 39 mi
- Parshallcommunity, 40 mi
- Heeneycommunity, 42 mi
Mountain passes near Yellow Jacket Pass
- Rabbit Ears Pass15 mi
- Muddy Pass16 mi
- Lynx Pass16 mi
- Dunckley Pass17 mi
- Yellowjacket Pass19 mi
- Buffalo Pass19 mi
- Mandall Pass20 mi
- Arapaho Pass22 mi