FranktownFKTC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.3 mi away/6,221 ft/97 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Now. Castlewood Canyon State Park is 58° and partly cloudy at 7 PM. The dew point is 18°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 74°, and the coolest Saturday, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is Friday, with wind to 20 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a first quarter, 52% lit, and sets at 12:20 AM after midnight. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 5 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 PM in Castlewood Canyon State Park, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 43, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Colorado Springs (CO), 34 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Tue 12 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Sun 6 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Tue 12 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Castlewood Canyon State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
FranktownFKTC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.3 mi away/6,221 ft/97 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW3105FW3105
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.4 mi away/6,085 ft/233 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Founders Point (41)CO075
Beside a road/7.1 mi away/6,170 ft/148 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/11.8 mi away/7,060 ft/742 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Castle Rock 3.3 ESECO-DG-360
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.2 mi away/6,597 ft/279 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Castle RockCSLC2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.5 mi away/6,319 ft/1 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Castle Rock (CSLC2), 4.5 miles from here, read 17 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.