Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Butts AAF (Fort Carson) Air Field until 9 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 14 degrees warmer: a high of 71° after 57° today.
Now. Butts AAF (Fort Carson) Air Field is 38° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 31°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. 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 77°, and the coolest Monday, near 70°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:22 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 11 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Butts AAF (Fort Carson) Air Field, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Colorado Springs (CO), 15 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 19, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 / 31 | 4,500 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 137° / 317° | 8 mph head, on 31 | 10 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Fort Carson/Butts (FCS), Butts AAF (Fort Carson) Air Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
42 F at 8 PM Thursday; 54 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 41 F at its coolest, 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 30 F, the air 62% saturated; the humidity ran from 41% at 3 PM Thursday to 100% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
14 mph from the north northeast at 8 PM Thursday; at its strongest 30 mph, 12 PM Thursday, with a gust of 41 mph at 11 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.60 inHg at 8 PM Thursday, rising 0.08 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 0.3 miles at 1 AM Thursday, under a mile for 1 hour; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 0 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
Fort Carson/Butts: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Butts AAF (Fort Carson) Air 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 now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/5,869 ft/31 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
1 E FountainJCFC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.7 mi away/5,554 ft/284 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
115S03365RWS1RHS - 1.7 miles N o CO US CDOTCO224
Beside a road/6.6 mi away/6,522 ft/684 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Fountain 0.8 NNECO-EP-163
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/5,543 ft/295 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ellicott 7SBSQC2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.5 mi away/5,961 ft/123 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.