Now. Lake County Airport is 25° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 18°. The dew point is 22°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 27° by 5 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 59°, and the coolest Monday, near 52°. Rain is possible Thursday (49%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 23°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Lake County Airport, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Aspen (CO), 27 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; 0.11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 / 34 | 6,400 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 172° / 352° | 2 mph head, on 34 | 2 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Leadville/Lake Co. (LXV), Lake County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
27 F at 9 PM Thursday; 45 F at its warmest, 1 PM Thursday, and 27 F at its coolest, 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 22 F, the air 81% saturated; the humidity ran from 40% at 3 PM Thursday to 85% at 1 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 13 mph, 2 PM Thursday, with a gust of 28 mph at 1 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.72 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.49 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 1,600 ft at 5 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 17 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
Leadville/Lake Co.: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Lake County Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.5 mi away/9,928 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
A remote fire weather station/4.9 mi away/9,652 ft/275 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Beside a road/14.9 mi away/11,834 ft/1,907 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Leadville 0.5 SCO-LK-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/10,092 ft/165 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sugarloaf RsvrSGLC2
At a reservoir/3.5 mi away/9,760 ft/167 ft below 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.