Temperature
59 F at 8 PM; 70 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 35 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
- Now
- 59F
- 8 PM
- Highest
- 70F
- 2 PM
- Lowest
- 35F
- 4 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Colorado City Municipal Airport until 11 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Colorado City Municipal Airport is 57° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the east at 23 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 47° by 7 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 69°, and the coolest Wednesday, near 63°. Rain is likely Tuesday (62%) and Wednesday (62%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 30 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 27% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south. 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 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Colorado City Municipal Airport, Arizona.
Air quality
Index 32, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Zion National Park (UT), 18 miles off.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 / 20 unlit | 5,099 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 27° / 207° | 20 mph head, on 02 | 9 mph from the right |
| 11 / 29 | 6,300 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 123° / 303° | 6 mph head, on 11 | 21 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Colorado City (AZC), Colorado City Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
59 F at 8 PM; 70 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 35 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 32 F, the air 36% saturated; the humidity ran from 27% at 2 PM to 93% at 1 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
16 mph from the east northeast at 8 PM; at its strongest 18 mph, 3 PM, with a gust of 30 mph at 6 PM.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.41 inHg at 8 PM, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.15 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
10 miles or more every hour.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 7,500 ft at 2 PM; a base was reported in 1 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Colorado City: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Colorado City Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/4,857 ft/17 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Hurricane RAWSQHUA3
A remote fire weather station/18.0 mi away/4,934 ft/60 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mational MonumentPIPA3
At a cooperative observer's station/16.7 mi away/4,911 ft/37 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Fredonia 1.8 NNWAZ-CN-179
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.7 mi away/4,719 ft/155 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Mational Monument (PIPA3), 16.7 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.