Now. Hopkins Field is 42° and mostly clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 61° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 67°, and the coolest Thursday, near 62°. Rain is likely Tuesday (60%), Wednesday (58%) and Thursday (77%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:39 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 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Hopkins Field, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Telluride (CO), 46 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 5, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.93 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 5,212 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 59° / 239° | 1 mph head, on 23 | 5 mph from the left |
| 11 / 29 unlit | 4,000 ft | 80 ft | GRE | 126° / 306° | 4 mph head, on 11 | 3 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Nucla (AIB), Hopkins Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
46 F at 9 PM Thursday; 58 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 41 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 38 F, the air 75% saturated; the humidity ran from 46% at 4 PM Thursday to 97% at 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
4 mph from the south southeast at 9 PM Thursday; at its strongest 19 mph, 2 PM Thursday, with a gust of 25 mph at 12 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.54 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.08 inHg over 3 hours; 0.28 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 6 miles at 6 PM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 2,000 ft at 2 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 11 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
Nucla: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Hopkins Field, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
NuclaAIB
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/5,939 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Nucla RAWS Sites NrNUCC2
A remote fire weather station/0.7 mi away/5,755 ft/185 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Norwood 2.1 NWCO-SM-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.5 mi away/6,865 ft/925 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Gateway CoopGTWC2
At a cooperative observer's station/37.1 mi away/4,629 ft/1,311 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Gateway Coop (GTWC2), 37.1 miles from here, read 13 Oct, 17:00. 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.