Whiskey Ck SnotelWSKC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/6.0 mi away/10,220 ft/2,150 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees warmer: a high of 66° after 53° today.
Now. Stonewall Gap is 35° and mostly cloudy at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 6 mph, gusting to 18 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° by 1 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 sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Sunday, near 69°, and the coolest Thursday, near 64°. Rain is possible Thursday (43%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:28 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 14 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Stonewall Gap, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, San Luis Valley (CO), 55 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.06 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 5 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 6 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 5 instruments nearest Stonewall Gap, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
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Whiskey Ck SnotelWSKC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/6.0 mi away/10,220 ft/2,150 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-25 @ Aguilar (88)CO031
Beside a road/28.3 mi away/6,248 ft/1,822 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/38.8 mi away/5,761 ft/2,309 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Weston 1.8 NWCO-LA-49
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/7,980 ft/90 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Aguilar 18WSWAGRC2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.7 mi away/8,684 ft/614 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 38.8 mi from Stonewall Gap, Colorado. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:54 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 4,900 ft; the ceiling is 4,900 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
39.0 F with a dew point of 34.0 F, 82 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,100 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 4,900 ft.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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Snow on the ground
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.