Crosho SnotelCRSC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/5.4 mi away/9,100 ft/454 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Colorado/Yellowjacket Pass
Yellowjacket Pass, Colorado
Mountain pass in Rio Blanco County, Colorado, at 9,554 ft26°
55°/21°
Clear·
Feels like 21°·Light breeze 4 mph SE
Now. Yellowjacket Pass is 26° and clear at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 21°. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° 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 sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 58°, and the coolest Thursday, near 54°. Rain is likely Thursday (54%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:26 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
85%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
26feels21
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5521
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
5829
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
5631
12%
Mon
Oct 19
5535
21%
Tue
Oct 20
5635
27%
Wed
Oct 21
5637
16%
Thu
Oct 22
5437
54%
26°
55°21°
58°29°
56°31°
55°35°
56°35°
56°37°
54°37°
As of 3:00 AM in Yellowjacket Pass, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Yellowjacket Pass
Index 16, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Steamboat Springs (CO), 29 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 40 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Yellowjacket Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.71 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
- 0.71in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Yellowjacket Pass, the next 40 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
- 9,554 ft
- County
- Rio Blanco County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 40.1483° N
- Longitude
- 107.1570° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Yellowjacket Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW5627GW5627
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.4 mi away/7,667 ft/1,887 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/23.2 mi away/6,601 ft/2,953 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/27.8 mi away/6,751 ft/2,803 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Phippsburg 0.5 WSWCO-RT-55
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.8 mi away/7,455 ft/2,099 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Hayden CoopHAYC2
At a cooperative observer's station/24.4 mi away/6,470 ft/3,084 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Hayden Coop (HAYC2), 24.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 18:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Colorado
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Near Yellowjacket Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Phippsburgcommunity, 13 mi
- Yampatown, 13 mi
- Oak Creektown, 14 mi
- Haydentown, 24 mi
- McCoycommunity, 28 mi
- Steamboatsurveyed ski area, 28 mi
- Howelsen Hillski area, 28 mi
- Steamboat Springscity, 29 mi
- Carbonatetown, 29 mi
- Craigcity, 33 mi
- Dotserocommunity, 35 mi
- Gypsumtown, 37 mi
Mountain passes near Yellowjacket Pass
- Dunckley Pass4 mi
- Mandall Pass5 mi
- Ripple Creek Pass8 mi
- Yellow Jacket Pass19 mi
- Indian Camp Pass23 mi
- Lynx Pass25 mi
- Gore Pass32 mi
- Rabbit Ears Pass33 mi