Temperature
42 F at 12 AM; 60 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 31 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
- Now
- 42F
- 12 AM
- Highest
- 60F
- 3 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 31F
- 6 AM Thursday
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Now. Stevens Field is 40° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 16°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 62°, and the coolest Thursday, near 55°. Rain is likely Tuesday (73%), Wednesday (78%) and Thursday (84%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:36 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 14 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Stevens Field, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Southern Ute Indian Reservation (CO), 59 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 47, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.25 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 | 8,100 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 25° / 205° | 8 mph head, on 01 | 2 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Pagosa Springs (PSO), Stevens Field's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
42 F at 12 AM; 60 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 31 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 19 F, the air 40% saturated; the humidity ran from 33% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
5 mph from the northeast at 12 AM; at its strongest 15 mph, 4 PM Thursday, with a gust of 23 mph at 4 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.59 inHg at 12 AM, rising 0.04 inHg over 3 hours; 0.31 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 700 ft at 4 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 5 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
Pagosa Springs: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Stevens 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/7,664 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Pagosa Springs (23)CO054
Beside a road/2.0 mi away/7,199 ft/465 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Pagosa Springs - San Juan RiverPSXC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.9 mi away/7,069 ft/595 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pagosa Springs 2.8 WCO-AU-57
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/7,642 ft/22 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ignacio SpotterIGCC2
At a cooperative observer's station/29.6 mi away/6,594 ft/1,070 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.