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A snow pillow on a mountain/11.5 mi away/9,630 ft/3,218 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Wyoming/Backpackers Pass
Backpackers Pass, Wyoming
Mountain pass in Fremont County, Wyoming, at 12,848 ft23°
43°/20°
Clear·
Feels like 12°·Gentle breeze 11 mph W
Now. Backpackers Pass is 23° and clear at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 12°. The dew point is 23°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the west at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 41° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 22° 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 week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 38°, and the coolest Friday, near 29°. Rain is likely Friday (74%). Rain is possible Thursday (46%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 21°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:33 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:25 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 0 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
32Air quality
68%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
23feels12
now, clear
Today
Oct 17
4320
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
3821
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
3719
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
3621
10%
Wed
Oct 21
3722
16%
Thu
Oct 22
3724
46%
Fri
Oct 23
2923
74%
23°
43°20°
38°21°
37°19°
36°21°
37°22°
37°24°
29°23°
As of 4:00 AM in Backpackers Pass, Wyoming.
Air quality
The air at Backpackers Pass
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Pinedale (WY), 24 miles off.
32Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)6Good-
- Ozone32Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 39, good.
GoodModerate
- 39YesterdayOct 16
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Mon 12 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Backpackers Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Sat 3 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 Backpackers Pass, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 12,848 ft
- County
- Fremont County
- State
- Wyoming
- Latitude
- 43.1677° N
- Longitude
- 109.6196° W
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Backpackers Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 11.5 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
DuboisDUB
At an airfield/26.5 mi away/7,252 ft/5,596 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Cora 15.8 NWY-SL-20
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.7 mi away/7,798 ft/5,050 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Burris - COOPBRRW4
At a cooperative observer's station/22.1 mi away/6,134 ft/6,714 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Wyoming
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
CaspercityCheyennecityCodycityDuboistownGillettecityGrand Targheesurveyed ski areaHogadonski areaJacksoncityJackson Holesurveyed ski areaLaramiecityMeadowlarkski areaMedicine Bow PeakfeaturePinedaletownRock SpringscitySheridancitySleeping Giantski areaSnow Kingski areaTeton RangefeatureWind River RangefeatureYellowstonefeature
Near Backpackers Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Wind River Rangefeature, 2 mi
- Crowheartcommunity, 23 mi
- Coracommunity, 23 mi
- Pinedaletown, 24 mi
- Duboistown, 25 mi
- Bouldercommunity, 30 mi
- Danielcommunity, 31 mi
- Bondurantcommunity, 39 mi
- Fort Washakiecommunity, 39 mi
- Ethetecommunity, 44 mi
- Boulder Flatscommunity, 45 mi
- Pavilliontown, 47 mi
Mountain passes near Backpackers Pass
- Blaurock Passunder 1 mi
- Bonney Passunder 1 mi
- Glacier Pass2 mi
- Indian Pass4 mi
- Stone Pillar Pass4 mi
- Indian Pass4 mi
- Shannon Pass5 mi
- Cube Rock Pass5 mi