A remote fire weather station/10.6 mi away/6,516 ft/212 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Wyoming/Cottonwood Pass
Cottonwood Pass, Wyoming
Mountain pass in Fremont County, Wyoming, at 6,728 ft31°
52°/28°
Clear·
Feels like 26°·Light breeze 5 mph WSW
Coming up. Tomorrow is 10 degrees warmer: a high of 62° after 52° today.
Now. Cottonwood Pass is 31° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 26°. The dew point is 19°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-southwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 62°, and the coolest Sunday, near 55°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:26 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:14 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 2 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
11Air quality
61%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
31feels26
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5228
13mph
Sat
Oct 17
6238
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
5540
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
5838
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6043
17mph
Wed
Oct 21
5944
10%
Thu
Oct 22
5844
16%
15mph
31°
52°28°
62°38°
55°40°
58°38°
60°43°
59°44°
58°44°
As of 12:00 AM in Cottonwood Pass, Wyoming.
Air quality
The air at Cottonwood Pass
Index 11, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Riverton (WY), 51 miles off.
11Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)1Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)11Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 12, good.
GoodModerate
- 12YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Cottonwood Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.86 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
- 0.86in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Cottonwood Pass, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 6,728 ft
- County
- Fremont County
- State
- Wyoming
- Latitude
- 43.4761° N
- Longitude
- 107.5734° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Cottonwood Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.9 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Hiland US 20/26 between Casper&ShoshoniKHLD
Beside a road/29.4 mi away/6,099 ft/629 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Boysen PeakTBX
At an airfield/33.4 mi away/7,297 ft/569 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lysite 12 NEWY-NT-14
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.9 mi away/6,045 ft/683 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/14.9 mi away/5,652 ft/1,076 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Black Mountain - COOP (BTXW4), 14.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
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 Cottonwood Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Shoshonitown, 32 mi
- East Thermopolistown, 33 mi
- Thermopolistown, 34 mi
- Lucernecommunity, 35 mi
- Kirbytown, 38 mi
- Ten Sleeptown, 39 mi
- Worlandcity, 42 mi
- Powder Rivercommunity, 43 mi
- Kayceetown, 50 mi
- Meadowlarkski area, 51 mi
- Rivertoncity, 51 mi
- Hyattvillecommunity, 53 mi
Mountain passes near Cottonwood Pass
- Davis Pass2 mi
- Sioux Pass6 mi
- De Pass14 mi
- Birdseye Pass25 mi
- Fraker Pass38 mi
- Dull Knife Pass41 mi
- Mexican Pass44 mi
- U T Pass53 mi