Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Eagle County Regional 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. Eagle County Regional Airport is 35° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 62° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° 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 sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. Highs stay close to 67° all week. Rain is possible Thursday (44%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:27 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 Eagle County Regional Airport, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Aspen (CO), 32 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 35, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.28 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 | 9,000 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 82° / 262° | Calm | Calm |
Measured here
Every hour from Eagle Co. Regional (EGE), Eagle County Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
37 F at 9 PM Thursday; 54 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 37 F at its coolest, 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 31 F, the air 79% saturated; the humidity ran from 38% at 4 PM Thursday to 86% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
2 mph from the east at 9 PM Thursday; at its strongest 12 mph, 12 PM Thursday, with a gust of 22 mph at 11 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.69 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.10 inHg over 3 hours; 0.47 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 2,100 ft at 2 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 16 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
Eagle Co. Regional: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Eagle County Regional 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/6,539 ft/9 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
GypsumGPRC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.7 mi away/7,365 ft/817 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Bair Ranch (8)CO090
Beside a road/12.2 mi away/6,125 ft/423 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Gypsum 0.8 ECO-EG-70
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/6,414 ft/134 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Edwards 1WNWEDRC2
At a cooperative observer's station/15.9 mi away/7,156 ft/608 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.