I-225 @ Parker Road (40*)CO023
Beside a road/0.7 mi away/5,652 ft/7 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Cherry Creek State Park, Colorado
State Park in Arapahoe County, Colorado* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures falling to 26 to 32 degrees, coldest over the plains. * WHERE...Front Range Urban Corridor and all of the eastern plains. * WHEN...From midnight tonight to 9 AM MDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent water pipes from freezing; wrap or drain or allow them to drip slowly.
37°
65°/32°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 37°·Light air 2 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Cherry Creek State Park until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 15 degrees warmer: a high of 80° after 65° today.
Now. Cherry Creek State Park is 37° and mostly cloudy at 4 AM. The dew point is 20°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the north at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 65° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 1 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 80°, and the coolest Monday, near 73°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:18 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
31Air quality
54%Humidity
79%Cloud
Now
4:00 AM
37feels37
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
6532
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
8036
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
7645
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
7346
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7647
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7850
mostly clear day
Thu
Oct 22
7852
13mph
37°
65°32°
80°36°
76°45°
73°46°
76°47°
78°50°
78°52°
As of 4:00 AM in Cherry Creek State Park, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Cherry Creek State Park
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Denver-Boulder (CO), 21 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)25Good8.4 mi
- Ozone31Good32 ppb8.8 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)9Good-
- Nitrogen dioxide5Good5.2 ppb10.9 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.6 ppb12.9 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.1 ppm11.4 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
GoodModerate
- 36YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Cherry Creek State Park
0.03 in in the last 24 hours, 0.12 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.03in
- Last 3 days
- 0.12in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 25%
Visibility
How far you can see at Cherry Creek State Park, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 6.92 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 5,645 ft
- County
- Arapahoe County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 39.6523° N
- Longitude
- 104.8319° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Cherry Creek State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station GW4663GW4663
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/5,601 ft/44 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/5.5 mi away/5,663 ft/18 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Commerce City 4E - ArsenalAENC2
On a military installation/11.9 mi away/5,274 ft/371 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Aurora 3.3 SCO-AR-273
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/5,698 ft/53 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Aurora SouthEAGC2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.4 mi away/5,794 ft/149 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 Aurora South (EAGC2), 2.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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