Gun Barrel US 85 northeast of CheyenneKGUN
Beside a road/23.6 mi away/5,597 ft/719 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/Wyoming/McCompsey Pass
McCompsey Pass, Wyoming
Mountain pass in Goshen County, Wyoming, at 4,878 ft* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures between 25 and 30 degrees possible. * WHERE...Western Nebraska and far southeast Wyoming. * WHEN...From midnight tonight to 9 AM MDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
40°
55°/36°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 30°·Fresh breeze 23 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for McCompsey Pass until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. McCompsey Pass is 40° and partly cloudy at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 23 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 25° by 7 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 Saturday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 25°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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
13Air quality
50%Humidity
48%Cloud
Now
9:00 PM
40feels30
23mph
Today
Oct 15
5536
100%
26mph
Fri
Oct 16
5425
19mph
Sat
Oct 17
7632
15mph
Sun
Oct 18
6940
13mph
Mon
Oct 19
6937
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7440
clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7645
mostly clear day
40°
55°36°
54°25°
76°32°
69°40°
69°37°
74°40°
76°45°
As of 9:00 PM in McCompsey Pass, Wyoming.
Air quality
The air at McCompsey Pass
Index 13, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Scottsbluff (NE), 24 miles off.
13Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)13Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 30, good.
GoodModerate
- 30YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at McCompsey Pass
0.31 in in the last 24 hours, 0.44 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.31in
- Last 3 days
- 0.44in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 70%
Visibility
How far you can see at McCompsey Pass, the next 46 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
- 4,878 ft
- County
- Goshen County
- State
- Wyoming
- Latitude
- 41.7100° N
- Longitude
- 104.0597° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest McCompsey Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.8 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Torrington #1 ScanTRGW4
At a river or reservoir gauge/24.9 mi away/4,280 ft/598 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Torrington #1S2018
At a soil climate station/24.9 mi away/4,280 ft/598 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Torrington Municipal AirportTOR
At an airfield/25.0 mi away/4,206 ft/672 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station FW7016FW7016
In a volunteer observer's own ground/39.4 mi away/5,555 ft/677 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
La Grange 5.9 NWY-GS-38
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/4,503 ft/375 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Lingle 2WSWLNGW4
At a cooperative observer's station/33.6 mi away/4,157 ft/721 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 Lingle 2WSW (LNGW4), 33.6 miles from here, read 7 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near McCompsey Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- LaGrangetown, 7 mi
- Hawk Springscommunity, 12 mi
- Huntleycommunity, 16 mi
- Yodertown, 19 mi
- Albintown, 20 mi
- Veterancommunity, 24 mi
- Torringtoncity, 26 mi
- Lingletown, 33 mi
- Pine Bluffstown, 37 mi
- Burnstown, 39 mi
- Chugwatertown, 40 mi
- Slatercommunity, 41 mi
Mountain passes near McCompsey Pass
- Seward Pass51 mi
- McGinnis Pass52 mi
- McCann Pass54 mi
- Rocky Pass56 mi
- Cheyenne Pass67 mi
- Morton Pass75 mi
- Devils Pass90 mi
- Ellison Pass92 mi