Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Craig Moffat 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. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 64° after 56° today.
Now. Craig Moffat Airport is 30° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. The air is calm.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 26° 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 67°, and the coolest Sunday, near 63°. Rain is possible Thursday (46%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 23°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:29 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:26 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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Craig Moffat Airport, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Steamboat Springs (CO), 36 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 10, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.65 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07 / 25 | 5,606 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 83° / 263° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Craig - Moffat (CAG), Craig Moffat Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
31 F at 9 PM Thursday; 53 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 31 F at its coolest, 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 30 F, the air 96% saturated; the humidity ran from 39% at 3 PM Thursday to 98% at 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
1 mph from the east northeast at 9 PM Thursday; at its strongest 14 mph, 1 PM Thursday, with a gust of 25 mph at 12 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.67 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.44 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 5 miles at 1 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 600 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
0.02 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.02 in, in the hour to 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Craig - Moffat: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Craig Moffat Airport, 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 now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/6,283 ft/90 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.7 mi away/6,211 ft/18 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/36.9 mi away/6,751 ft/558 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Craig 1.7 SSECO-MF-36
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.3 mi away/6,238 ft/45 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Craig CoopCRGC2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.4 mi away/6,306 ft/113 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.