Vernon Creek SnotelVNCU1
A snow pillow on a mountain/10.4 mi away/7,401 ft/1,131 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Utah/Erickson Pass
Erickson Pass, Utah
Mountain pass in Tooele County, Utah, at 6,270 ft52°
65°/34°
Clear·
Feels like 52°·Light air 3 mph E
Now. Erickson Pass is 52° and clear at 12 PM. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 61°, and the coolest Thursday, near 51°. Rain is likely Thursday (62%). Rain is possible Tuesday (31%) and Wednesday (43%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:49 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
5UV Moderate
29Air quality
39%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
12:00 PM
52feels52
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
6534
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6137
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6038
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6040
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
5643
31%
Wed
Oct 21
5642
43%
Thu
Oct 22
5142
62%
52°
65°34°
61°37°
60°38°
60°40°
56°43°
56°42°
51°42°
As of 12:00 PM in Erickson Pass, Utah.
Air quality
The air at Erickson Pass
Index 29, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Tooele (UT), 42 miles off.
29Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good-
- Ozone29Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 6 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Erickson Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.02in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Erickson Pass, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 6,270 ft
- County
- Tooele County
- State
- Utah
- Latitude
- 39.9655° N
- Longitude
- 112.6069° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Erickson Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 10.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
SR-36 at MP 6 Boulter SummitUTBSU
Beside a road/19.2 mi away/6,109 ft/161 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/23.6 mi away/4,350 ft/1,920 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
DugwayS2167
At a soil climate station/25.9 mi away/4,314 ft/1,956 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
VernonVERU1
At a cooperative observer's station/13.6 mi away/5,427 ft/843 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Stockton 0.6 NWUT-TL-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/36.3 mi away/5,087 ft/1,183 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Utah
26 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Erickson Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Vernontown, 12 mi
- Dugwaycommunity, 20 mi
- Eurekacity, 26 mi
- Rush Valleytown, 27 mi
- Lynndyltown, 33 mi
- Ophircommunity, 34 mi
- Elbertacommunity, 34 mi
- Leamingtontown, 35 mi
- Fairfieldtown, 35 mi
- Stocktontown, 36 mi
- Cedar Forttown, 36 mi
- Goshentown, 37 mi
Mountain passes near Erickson Pass
- Lookout Pass11 mi
- Desert Mountain Pass13 mi
- Keg Pass19 mi
- Twelvemile Pass26 mi
- Johnson Pass26 mi
- Diamond Pass26 mi
- Tenmile Pass27 mi
- Dugway Pass27 mi