Mining Fork SnotelMFKU1
A snow pillow on a mountain/3.2 mi away/8,221 ft/174 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Utah/Box Elder Pass
Box Elder Pass, Utah
Mountain pass in Tooele County, Utah, at 8,395 ft37°
48°/32°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 34°·Light air 3 mph SE
Now. Box Elder Pass is 37° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 44° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 9 PM, 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. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 50°, and the coolest Thursday, near 40°. Rain is likely Wednesday (54%) and Thursday (56%). Rain is possible Tuesday (44%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:49 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:47 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
22Air quality
76%Humidity
20%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
37feels34
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
4832
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
5035
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
4837
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
4937
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
4540
44%
19mph
Wed
Oct 21
4237
54%
Thu
Oct 22
4035
56%
37°
48°32°
50°35°
48°37°
49°37°
45°40°
42°37°
40°35°
As of 12:00 AM in Box Elder Pass, Utah.
Air quality
The air at Box Elder Pass
Index 22, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Tooele (UT), 16 miles off.
22Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)22Good-
- Ozone19Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 43 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 22 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Box Elder Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.94 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.94in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Box Elder 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
- 8,395 ft
- County
- Tooele County
- State
- Utah
- Latitude
- 40.4516° N
- Longitude
- 112.5869° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Box Elder Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Johnsons PassUTJPS
Beside a road/7.9 mi away/6,516 ft/1,879 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW7445GW7445
In a volunteer observer's own ground/12.3 mi away/4,268 ft/4,127 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
GrantsvilleS2152
At a soil climate station/14.0 mi away/4,337 ft/4,058 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
TooeleTVY
At an airfield/16.7 mi away/4,300 ft/4,095 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Grantsville 2WGNTU1
At a cooperative observer's station/11.2 mi away/4,518 ft/3,877 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Stockton 0.6 NWUT-TL-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.4 mi away/5,087 ft/3,308 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Grantsville 2W (GNTU1), 11.2 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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Near Box Elder Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Rush Valleytown, 10 mi
- Stocktontown, 12 mi
- Grantsvillecity, 12 mi
- Tooelecity, 16 mi
- Dugwaycommunity, 17 mi
- Erdacity, 18 mi
- Ophircommunity, 18 mi
- Stansbury Parkcommunity, 20 mi
- Lake Pointcity, 23 mi
- Vernontown, 25 mi
- Cedar Forttown, 27 mi
- Copperton metro townshiptown, 27 mi
Mountain passes near Box Elder Pass
- Hickman Pass4 mi
- Johnson Pass8 mi
- Edwards Pass16 mi
- Commodore Pass17 mi
- Piney Pass20 mi
- Dead Ox Pass21 mi
- Rydalch Pass21 mi
- Six Horse Pass23 mi