Now. Blake Field is 43° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-northeast at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 62° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 6 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 Wednesday, near 68°, and the coolest Sunday, near 64°. Rain is likely Thursday (67%). Rain is possible Tuesday (32%) and Wednesday (36%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:33 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:35 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Blake Field, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Grand Junction (CO), 33 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 48, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 1.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 | 5,598 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 42° / 222° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Delta (AJZ), Blake Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
47 F at 9 PM Thursday; 61 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 43 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 41 F, the air 80% saturated; the humidity ran from 44% at 4 PM Thursday to 95% at 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
6 mph from the north at 9 PM Thursday; at its strongest 7 mph, 8 PM Thursday, with a gust of 20 mph at 1 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.56 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.10 inHg over 3 hours; 0.33 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
The lowest cloud base came down to 600 ft at 5 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 9 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.03 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.02 in, in the hour to 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Delta: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Blake 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 now4 instruments
DeltaAJZ
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/5,159 ft/34 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Uncompahgre RiverUOLC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/13.6 mi away/5,374 ft/181 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Montrose 11 ENE03060
At a climate reference station/26.4 mi away/8,402 ft/3,209 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Palisade (6)CO097
Beside a road/27.2 mi away/4,697 ft/496 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Delta 0.6 ENECO-DL-64
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.7 mi away/4,953 ft/240 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Cedaredge 1ECDGC2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.8 mi away/6,691 ft/1,498 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Cedaredge 1E (CDGC2), 11.8 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.