ScottsbluffSBFN1
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.3 mi away/4,134 ft/42 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Nebraska/Mitchell Pass
Mitchell Pass, Nebraska
Mountain pass in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, at 4,176 ft* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures between 25 and 30 degrees possible. * WHERE...Western Nebraska and far southeast Wyoming. * WHEN...From midnight tonight to 9 AM MDT Friday. * 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.
36°
56°/26°
Clear·
Feels like 28°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Mitchell Pass until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 21 degrees warmer: a high of 77° after 56° today.
Now. Mitchell Pass is 36° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 28°. The dew point is 24°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° 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 week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 78°, and the coolest Sunday, near 71°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:12 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:05 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 5 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
24Air quality
58%Humidity
6%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
36feels28
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5626
12mph
Sat
Oct 17
7732
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
7139
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
7237
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7739
clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7845
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
7846
10%
36°
56°26°
77°32°
71°39°
72°37°
77°39°
78°45°
78°46°
As of 12:00 AM in Mitchell Pass, Nebraska.
Air quality
The air at Mitchell Pass
Index 24, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Scottsbluff (NE), 4 miles off.
24Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)24Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 30, good.
GoodModerate
- 30YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Mitchell Pass
0.26 in in the last 24 hours, 0.32 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.26in
- Last 3 days
- 0.32in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 81%
Visibility
How far you can see at Mitchell 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
- 4,176 ft
- County
- Scotts Bluff County
- State
- Nebraska
- Latitude
- 41.8316° N
- Longitude
- 103.7141° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Mitchell Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
D5-RWIS 385 187NE065
Beside a road/2.3 mi away/3,875 ft/301 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW2986GW2986
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/3,875 ft/301 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ScottsbluffBFF
At an airfield/6.8 mi away/3,948 ft/228 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Gering 1.3 NNWNE-SB-1
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.4 mi away/3,891 ft/285 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Scottsbluff 2WNWDERN1
At a cooperative observer's station/3.6 mi away/3,907 ft/269 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Nebraska
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Mitchell Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Mountain passes near Mitchell Pass
- Coyote Passunder 1 mi
- Rifle Sight Pass4 mi
- Roubadeau Pass7 mi