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01 — The Station
Brettelberg Weather Station · Glenwood Springs, Colorado

Sunlight Mountain, by the minute

A Davis station on the lodge roof at 8,200 feet reports every sixty seconds — live conditions now, and 355 days of mountain weather on the record below.

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Wind
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Humidity
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Pressure
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Precip today
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Inside the lodge
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Station 1767278,200 ft39.399° N · 107.338° WA reading every minuteOn the record since AUG 23 2025
02 — Recent
Straight off the roof

What it’s been doing

03 — The Record
Aug 23, 2025 → today

355 days on the mountain, one bar each

Every day the station has ever seen — each bar runs from the night’s low to the afternoon’s high, colored by how the day felt. Blue burns coldest, amber warmest, and the gray hairline is 32°F.

−13°90°·gray ≈ freezing

Slide across the year →

164nights below freezing19days that never thawed4nights below 0°F11.8″gauge precipitation

For the record

Coldest morning
−13°F
Monday, Jan 26
Hottest afternoon
90°F
Sunday, Jul 12
Strongest gust
51 mph
Tuesday, Feb 17
Longest deep freeze
5 days
Never above 32° — Dec 1 to Dec 5
Wildest single day
43° swing
47° to 90° on Jul 12
Frost season
256 days
First freeze Sep 17, last May 31
04 — Month by Month
The Almanac

How the year reads

Average nightly low to average afternoon high, every month on one axis — low, high, hairline at freezing.

MonthAvg lowLow-to-high spanAvg highFreezing nightsPrecipTop gust
August’2551°70°——*20 mph
September’2540°67°21.21″28 mph
October’2533°57°142.52″32 mph
November’2527°48°260.43″28 mph
December’2522°39°230.56″31 mph
January’2614°34°310.30″27 mph
February’2621°41°250.59″51 mph
March’2631°56°140.37″41 mph
April’2630°54°172.34″42 mph
May’2635°63°121.83″40 mph
June’2643°76°—0.12″40 mph
July’2650°83°—1.56″28 mph
August’26 · so far50°85°——31 mph

* The station joined mid-month, so the gauge total would count rain it never saw. Precipitation is what reaches the rain gauge — it sleeps through most snow, so winter months under-count what actually fell on the slopes.

05 — Patterns
A year of minutes, distilled

The mountain’s habits

The shape of a day

Mean temperature by hour, mountain time.

JanuaryJuly
20°40°60°80°JanJul12 AM6 AMNOON6 PM

January swings 15° · July swings 29° between night and afternoon.

Average temperature by hour of day
HourJanuaryJuly
12 AM19°57°
1 AM19°55°
2 AM18°54°
3 AM17°53°
4 AM17°52°
5 AM17°51°
6 AM17°51°
7 AM17°56°
8 AM19°62°
9 AM24°67°
10 AM27°72°
11 AM28°76°
noon30°78°
1 PM31°79°
2 PM32°80°
3 PM31°79°
4 PM29°78°
5 PM28°78°
6 PM26°76°
7 PM24°73°
8 PM22°68°
9 PM21°63°
10 PM20°61°
11 PM19°59°

Where the wind comes from

Share of 8,276 hourly readings by direction.

NE — 0% of hours, avg 2 mphENE — 2% of hours, avg 2 mphE — 6% of hours, avg 2 mphESE — 4% of hours, avg 2 mphSE — 3% of hours, avg 2 mphSSE — 3% of hours, avg 2 mphS — 3% of hours, avg 2 mphSSW — 5% of hours, avg 2 mphSW — 11% of hours, avg 3 mphWSW — 17% of hours, avg 4 mphW — 26% of hours, avg 4 mphWNW — 18% of hours, avg 4 mphNW — 3% of hours, avg 4 mphNNW — 0% of hours, avg 6 mphNSWEW
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26% of hours · avg 4 mph
WNW
18% of hours · avg 4 mph
WSW
17% of hours · avg 4 mph
Calm
5% of all hours

Night after night the air drains down from the W — the mountain exhaling downslope while the valley sleeps.

Winter reads better from a slopeside window

Every one of those blue bars fell as snow on the runs behind the lodge. The lifts turn again in December — watch the first storm arrive from fifty yards away.

Browse winter datesExplore the mountain →

Davis weather station on the Brettelberg lodge at Sunlight Mountain Resort, 8,200 ft — one reading a minute since Aug 23, 2025, aggregated hourly and daily. Days are bucketed in UTC, the gauge under-counts snow, and the anemometer only knows what happens at the roofline. It’s our weather, honestly kept.