Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Rangely Airport until 10 AM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Rangely Airport is 42° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-northeast at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 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 Wednesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. Rain is likely Thursday (61%). Rain is possible Tuesday (36%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:34 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:33 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Rangely Airport, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Dinosaur National Monument (UT), 37 miles off.
Yesterday measured 48, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
0.06 in in the last 24 hours, 1.20 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 / 24 | 6,408 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 77° / 257° | 6 mph head, on 06 | 2 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Rangely (4V0), Rangely Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
46 F at 9 PM Thursday; 55 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 39 F at its coolest, 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 33 F, the air 60% saturated; the humidity ran from 42% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
10 mph from the east northeast at 9 PM Thursday; at its strongest 22 mph, 1 PM Thursday, with a gust of 35 mph at 1 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.64 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.06 inHg over 3 hours; 0.40 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 1,300 ft at 1 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 14 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
Rangely: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Rangely Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rangely4V0
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/5,266 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Dragon Rd RAWS NrDRAC2
A remote fire weather station/14.0 mi away/6,253 ft/978 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Dinosaur 2 E94082
At a climate reference station/14.5 mi away/6,062 ft/787 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Douglas Pass (3)CO098
Beside a road/34.3 mi away/8,229 ft/2,954 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Rangely 0.6 NNECO-RB-25
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/5,245 ft/30 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RangelyRNGC2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.6 mi away/5,289 ft/14 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Rangely (RNGC2), 0.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.