Beside a road/5.3 mi away/5,488 ft/571 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/Nevada/Cottonwood Pass
Cottonwood Pass, Nevada
Mountain pass in Clark County, Nevada, at 4,917 ft66°
73°/53°
Clear·
Feels like 66°·Gentle breeze 13 mph ENE
Now. Cottonwood Pass is 66° and clear at 1 PM. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east-northeast at 13 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 69° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 51° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 66°, and the coolest Thursday, near 55°. Rain is likely Tuesday (60%), Wednesday (63%) and Thursday (52%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:05 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:16 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
6UV High
34Air quality
20%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 PM
66feels66
13mph
UV 6
Today
Oct 16
7353
19mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6651
partly cloudy day
Sun
Oct 18
6551
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6651
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
6251
60%
Wed
Oct 21
5748
63%
Thu
Oct 22
5546
52%
66°
73°53°
66°51°
65°51°
66°51°
62°51°
57°48°
55°46°
As of 1:00 PM in Cottonwood Pass, Nevada.
Air quality
The air at Cottonwood Pass
Index 34, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Jean (NV), 13 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good10.4 mi
- Ozone34Good42 ppb10.4 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)19Good10.4 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide8Good8.9 ppb19.3 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.1 ppb23.8 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.1 ppm19.3 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 38, good.
GoodModerate
- 38YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 5 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Cottonwood Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Cottonwood Pass, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 5 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 4,917 ft
- County
- Clark County
- State
- Nevada
- Latitude
- 35.9564° N
- Longitude
- 115.4417° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Cottonwood Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Mountain Spring RAWSMTSN2
A remote fire weather station/6.6 mi away/5,466 ft/549 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
HendersonHND
At an airfield/17.2 mi away/2,437 ft/2,480 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Lovell SummitS2146
At a soil climate station/17.3 mi away/6,582 ft/1,665 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station DW4394DW4394
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.4 mi away/2,584 ft/2,333 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Spring Mtn Rnch Red Rock Canyon S.P.RRCN2
At a cooperative observer's station/7.8 mi away/3,760 ft/1,157 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Las Vegas 13.5 SSWNV-CK-99
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.0 mi away/2,861 ft/2,056 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Nevada
22 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Cottonwood Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Blue Diamondcommunity, 7 mi
- Goodspringscommunity, 8 mi
- Enterprisecommunity, 13 mi
- Summerlin Southcommunity, 14 mi
- Spring Valleycommunity, 14 mi
- Sandy Valleycommunity, 15 mi
- Paradisecommunity, 20 mi
- Winchestercommunity, 21 mi
- Las Vegascity, 22 mi
- Mount Charlestoncommunity, 23 mi
- Whitneycommunity, 24 mi
- Spring Mountainsfeature, 25 mi
Mountain passes near Cottonwood Pass
- Potosi Pass5 mi
- Wilson Pass7 mi
- Columbia Pass9 mi
- Crystal Pass11 mi
- Stateline Pass21 mi
- Beer Bottle Pass21 mi
- McCullough Pass22 mi
- Dutchman Pass26 mi