Temperature
38 F at 8 PM; 52 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 34 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
- Now
- 38F
- 8 PM
- Highest
- 52F
- 2 PM
- Lowest
- 34F
- 4 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Yampa Valley Airport until 10 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Yampa Valley Airport is 37° and clear at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southeast at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 23° 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 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 23°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Yampa Valley Airport, Colorado.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, 0.51 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 / 28 | 10,000 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 114° / 294° | 2 mph head, on 10 | 2 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Hayden/Yampa (AWOS) (HDN), Yampa Valley Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
38 F at 8 PM; 52 F at its warmest, 2 PM, and 34 F at its coolest, 4 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 31 F, the air 76% saturated; the humidity ran from 38% at 2 PM to 100% at 4 AM.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
4 mph from the south southwest at 9 PM; at its strongest 11 mph, 4 PM, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.68 inHg at 9 PM, rising 0.06 inHg over 3 hours; 0.52 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 5 miles at 12 AM; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 4 AM; a base was reported in 18 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.09 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.02 in, in the hour to 10 PM Wednesday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Hayden/Yampa (AWOS): every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Yampa Valley Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/6,601 ft/5 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/20.9 mi away/6,751 ft/145 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At a river or reservoir gauge/22.8 mi away/6,211 ft/395 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hayden CoopHAYC2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.1 mi away/6,470 ft/136 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Hayden 4.4 ECO-RT-76
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.5 mi away/6,400 ft/206 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Hayden Coop (HAYC2), 2.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 18:00. 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.