Guernsey Dam NrGURW4
At a dam/4.0 mi away/4,495 ft/301 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Wyoming/Rocky Pass
Rocky Pass, Wyoming
Mountain pass in Platte County, Wyoming, at 4,796 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.
36°
54°/27°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 27°·Moderate breeze 15 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Rocky Pass until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 18 degrees warmer: a high of 72° after 54° today.
Now. Rocky Pass is 36° and mostly clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 27°. The dew point is 21°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 5 AM, 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 week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest Sunday, near 66°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:16 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:07 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 4 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
30Air quality
48%Humidity
13%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
36feels27
15mph
Today
Oct 16
5427
17mph
Sat
Oct 17
7232
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6639
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6838
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7341
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7446
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
7346
partly cloudy day
36°
54°27°
72°32°
66°39°
68°38°
73°41°
74°46°
73°46°
As of 12:00 AM in Rocky Pass, Wyoming.
Air quality
The air at Rocky Pass
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Douglas (WY), 44 miles off.
30Good
- Ozone30Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)3Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 19, good.
GoodModerate
- 19YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Rocky Pass
0.74 in in the last 24 hours, 1.10 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.74in
- Last 3 days
- 1.10in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 67%
Visibility
How far you can see at Rocky 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
- 4,796 ft
- County
- Platte County
- State
- Wyoming
- Latitude
- 42.3386° N
- Longitude
- 104.7444° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Rocky Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
GuernseyGUR
At an airfield/5.5 mi away/4,364 ft/432 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
ColemanWY1
Beside a road/15.5 mi away/5,019 ft/223 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Torrington #1S2018
At a soil climate station/36.5 mi away/4,280 ft/516 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Guernsey DamGUEW4
At a dam/2.9 mi away/4,408 ft/388 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Guernsey 0.2 ENEWY-PT-55
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.9 mi away/4,351 ft/445 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Wyoming
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
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Near Rocky Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Hartvilletown, 1 mi
- Guernseytown, 5 mi
- Fort Laramietown, 14 mi
- El Ranchocommunity, 16 mi
- Glendotown, 18 mi
- Lakeview Northcommunity, 20 mi
- Chugcreekcommunity, 22 mi
- Wheatlandtown, 23 mi
- Y-O Ranchcommunity, 23 mi
- Lingletown, 25 mi
- Westview Circlecommunity, 25 mi
- Whitingcommunity, 26 mi
Mountain passes near Rocky Pass
- McGinnis Pass5 mi
- Seward Pass6 mi
- McCann Pass6 mi
- Devils Pass43 mi
- West Fork Pass44 mi
- Ellison Pass45 mi
- Jenkins Pass46 mi
- Schofield Pass46 mi