Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Wray Municipal Airport 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 19 degrees warmer: a high of 74° after 55° today.
Now. Wray Municipal Airport is 39° and mostly clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 23°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 32 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 3 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 83°, and the coolest Monday, near 72°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:08 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:06 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Wray Municipal Airport, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Goodland (KS), 60 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
0.01 in in the last 24 hours, 0.10 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.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 / 35 | 5,399 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 9 mph head, on 35 | 2 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Wray (RYA), Wray Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
46 F at 9 PM Thursday; 59 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 43 F at its coolest, 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 32 F, the air 58% saturated; the humidity ran from 40% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
18 mph from the north northwest at 9 PM Thursday; at its strongest 23 mph, 3 PM Thursday, with a gust of 35 mph at 12 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.56 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.09 inHg over 3 hours; 0.46 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 2 miles at 9 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 700 ft at 9 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 21 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
Wray: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Wray Municipal Airport, 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
WrayRYA
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/3,667 ft/level with here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Idalia (90)CO047
Beside a road/24.5 mi away/3,876 ft/209 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Co Stratton 24 NSKKC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/36.8 mi away/4,222 ft/555 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wray 0.2 NCO-YU-124
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/3,531 ft/136 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
WrayWRAC2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.9 mi away/3,642 ft/25 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.