Temperature
37 F at 2 AM; 49 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 37 F at its coolest, 1 AM.
- Now
- 37F
- 2 AM
- Highest
- 49F
- 4 PM Thursday
- Lowest
- 37F
- 1 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Now. Monticello Airport is 38° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 63°, and the coolest Thursday, near 55°. Rain is likely Wednesday (60%) and Thursday (74%). Rain is possible Tuesday (42%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:38 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:43 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Monticello Airport, Utah.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Canyonlands National Park (UT), 45 miles off.
Yesterday measured 34, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.10 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 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
Measured here
Every hour from Monticello (U64), Monticello Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
37 F at 2 AM; 49 F at its warmest, 4 PM Thursday, and 37 F at its coolest, 1 AM.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 33 F, the air 84% saturated; the humidity ran from 63% at 5 PM Thursday to 91% at 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
11 mph from the west northwest at 2 AM; at its strongest 22 mph, 2 PM Thursday, with a gust of 30 mph at 2 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.66 inHg at 2 AM, rising 0.06 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 4 miles at 6 PM Thursday; 7 miles now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 1,100 ft at 7 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 16 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
Monticello: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 6 instruments nearest Monticello 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 now4 instruments
MonticelloU64
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/6,952 ft/14 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
US-491 at MP 2 Monticello POEUTMPO
Beside a road/4.5 mi away/6,811 ft/155 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
A snow pillow on a mountain/7.2 mi away/8,998 ft/2,032 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
West SummitS2139
At a soil climate station/12.9 mi away/6,993 ft/27 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Monticello 0.3 WUT-SJ-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/7,069 ft/103 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Monticello No. 2MTOU1
At a cooperative observer's station/4.5 mi away/7,100 ft/134 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
26 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.