At an airfield/4.7 mi away/4,239 ft/244 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, Colorado
78°
78°/47°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 78°·Light breeze 6 mph ESE
Now. Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site is 78° and mostly clear at 4 PM. The dew point is 42°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-southeast at 6 mph.
Where now comes from. The forecast for this hour, checked against 3 instruments within 25 miles. The nearest, Arkansas River AT La Junta (247 rank 832 in Colorado), read at 4:15 PM.
Today and tonight. The warmest of the day has passed; it cools to about 65° by 8 PM. Tonight falls to about 55° by 7 AM, with some cloud. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 84°, and the coolest Monday, near 60°. Rain is likely Saturday (81%), Sunday (92%) and Monday (57%). The windiest day is Friday, with wind to 27 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:08 PM. The Moon is a waxing gibbous, 80% lit, and sets at 3:25 AM after midnight. 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 bright Moon hides all but the brightest of them. The day is 11 hours 1 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
2UV Low
19Air quality
28%Humidity
18%Cloud
Now
4:00 PM
78feels78
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 21
7847
mostly clear
Thu
Oct 22
8455
partly cloudy
Fri
Oct 23
8461
mostly clear
Sat
Oct 24
81%
7158
rain light
Sun
Oct 25
92%
6247
rain
Mon
Oct 26
57%
6042
rain light
Tue
Oct 27
12%
6339
mostly clear
As of 4:00 PM in Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Index 19, good, led by fine particles. Read at 4 PM from its reporting area, Lamar (CO), 44 miles off.
19GoodAir quality index now
- Set by
- Fine particles (PM2.5), averaged over the last 12 hours, the latest weighing most.
- Smoke
- Little smoke near the ground through Fri 12 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
The days ahead
Good each day through Thu Oct 22, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 30, good.
Smoke, the next 45 hours
Precipitation
What has fallen at Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
None in the last 3 days, to Wed 3 PM. The last measurable, 0.04 in, fell on Oct 14. 0.04 in over the last 14 days. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
- Last 14 days
- 0.04in
Visibility
How far you can see at Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Fri 12 PM.
- This hour
- 10+mi
- Hours under a mile
- 0
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National Historic Site
- Area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 3,995 ft
- County
- Otero County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 38.0397° N
- Longitude
- 103.4263° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Arkansas River AT La JuntaLXHC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.7 mi away/4,052 ft/57 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW6222FW6222
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.3 mi away/4,156 ft/161 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
La Junta 17 WSW03063
At a climate reference station/24.8 mi away/4,386 ft/391 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
La Junta 10.2 NECO-OT-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/4,134 ft/139 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CherawCHWC2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.8 mi away/4,131 ft/136 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Cheraw (CHWC2), 5.8 miles from here, read 18 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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