Airports/Colorado/Sterling Municipal Airport

Sterling Municipal Airport, Colorado

Small airport in Logan County, Colorado

42° 63°/27°

Clear· Feels like 37°·Light breeze 8 mph NNW

Coming up. Tomorrow is 13 degrees warmer: a high of 76° after 63° today.

Now. Sterling Municipal Airport is 42° and clear at 10 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 8 mph.

Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 29° 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 Thursday, near 79°, and the coolest Monday, near 72°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 27°.

The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:12 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:08 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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.

3UV Low

-Air quality

52%Humidity

0%Cloud

Now

10:00 AM

42feels37

Today

Oct 16

6327

Sat

Oct 17

7627

Sun

Oct 18

7533

Mon

Oct 19

7239

Tue

Oct 20

7538

Wed

Oct 21

7844

Thu

Oct 22

7948

42°

63°27°

76°27°

75°33°

72°39°

75°38°

78°44°

79°48°

As of 10:00 AM in Sterling Municipal Airport, Colorado.

Precipitation

What has fallen at Sterling Municipal Airport

None in the last 24 hours; 0.11 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 9 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.

Last 24 hours: 0.00in
Last 3 days: 0.11in

3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%

Visibility

How far you can see at Sterling Municipal Airport, the next 45 hours

Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 6 AM.

Airfield

Code: STK
ICAO: KSTK
IATA: STK
Field elevation: 4,040 ft
Serves: Sterling
Kind: Small airport
Scheduled service: No
Its own instrument: STK
Wind now: From 330° at 6 mph, read 16 Oct, 10:15

Runways

Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Heading, true	Wind along it now	Crosswind now
04 / 22 unlit	2,500 ft	150 ft	GVL	47° / 227°	1 mph head, on 04	6 mph from the left
15 / 33	5,201 ft	75 ft	Asphalt	166° / 346°	6 mph head, on 33	2 mph from the left

Runways from their surveyed ends, north up, lengths and positions to scale; the rose in the corner is the wind now.

Measured here

What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours

Every hour from Sterling (STK), Sterling Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.

Temperature

43 F at 10 AM; 59 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 31 F at its coolest, 6 AM.

Now: 43F; 10 AM
Highest: 59F; 3 PM Thursday
Lowest: 31F; 6 AM

How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009

Humidity and dew point

A dew point of 27 F, the air 52% saturated; the humidity ran from 37% at 4 PM Thursday to 87% at 11 AM Thursday.

Dew point now: 27F; 10 AM
Humidity now: 52%
Humidity, range: 37 to 87%

How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002

Wind

6 mph from the north northwest at 10 AM; at its strongest 25 mph, 1 PM Thursday, with a gust of 36 mph at 1 PM Thursday.

Now: 6mph; from the north northwest
Strongest: 25mph; 1 PM Thursday
Highest gust: 36mph; 1 PM Thursday

How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008

Pressure

30.77 inHg at 10 AM, steady over 3 hours; 0.36 inHg higher than a day before.

Now: 30.77inHg; 10 AM
3 hours: +0.00inHg; steady
24 hours: +0.36inHg

How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003

Visibility

10 miles or more every hour.

Now: 10+mi
Lowest: 10+mi
Hours under a mile: 0

How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020

Cloud base

The lowest cloud base came down to 2,000 ft at 11 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 12 of the hours.

Lowest base now: -
Lowest in 24 hours: 2,000ft; 11 AM Thursday
Hours with a base reported: 12

How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001

Precipitation

None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.

Last 24 hours: 0.00in
Wettest hour: -
Hours with some: 0

How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002

Sterling: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports

What is measuring near here

The 5 instruments nearest Sterling Municipal 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

SterlingSTK

At an airfield/0.1 mi away/4,035 ft/5 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

Sterling (48)CO035

Beside a road/4.8 mi away/3,954 ft/86 ft below here

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

South Platte River Near CrookCKSC2

At a river or reservoir gauge/28.4 mi away/3,717 ft/323 ft below here

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

measured daily2 instruments

Sterling 3.3 SWCO-LG-78