Now. Montrose Regional Airport is 42° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-northeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 61° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 67°, and the coolest Sunday, near 63°. Rain is likely Thursday (65%). Rain is possible Tuesday (37%) and Wednesday (34%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:35 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 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Montrose Regional Airport, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 17, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Telluride (CO), 40 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 5, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.97 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 | 7,510 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 140° / 320° | 6 mph head, on 13 | None |
| 17 / 35 | 10,000 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 5 mph head, on 17 | 4 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Montrose Co. Arpt (MTJ), Montrose Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
45 F at 9 PM Thursday; 57 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 42 F at its coolest, 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 41 F, the air 86% saturated; the humidity ran from 51% at 3 PM Thursday to 95% at 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
6 mph from the south southeast at 9 PM Thursday; at its strongest 11 mph, 5 PM Thursday, with a gust of 20 mph at 2 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.58 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.34 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 7 miles at 8 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 300 ft at 3 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 18 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.01 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.01 in, in the hour to 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Montrose Co. Arpt: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Montrose Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/0.4 mi away/5,758 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Uncompahgre RiverUOLC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.9 mi away/5,374 ft/385 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Montrose 11 ENE03060
At a climate reference station/11.2 mi away/8,402 ft/2,643 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Telluride - Lawson Hill (18)CO055
Beside a road/39.2 mi away/8,911 ft/3,152 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Montrose 1.6 NCO-MT-48
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/5,807 ft/48 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Montrose #2MNTC2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.8 mi away/5,804 ft/45 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Montrose #2 (MNTC2), 1.8 miles from here, read 12 Oct, 08:00. 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.