Curecanti National Recreation Area, Colorado
Now. Curecanti National Recreation Area is 46° and mostly clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the southeast at 2 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 37° 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 62°, and the coolest Saturday, near 53°. Rain is likely Wednesday (65%), Thursday (89%) and Friday (96%). Rain is possible Saturday (35%). The first freeze could come Sunday, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing gibbous, 63% lit, and sets at 1:35 AM after midnight. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 4 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Curecanti National Recreation Area, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Curecanti National Recreation Area
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Telluride (CO), 50 miles off.
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)9Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Tue Oct 20, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 9, good.
- 9YesterdayOct 18
- GoodTodayOct 19
- GoodTueOct 20
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Curecanti National Recreation Area
None in the last 3 days, to Mon 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Curecanti National Recreation Area, the next 46 hours
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Wed 4 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National Recreation Area
- Area
- 65 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 7,524 ft
- County
- Gunnison County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 38.4677° N
- Longitude
- 107.1873° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Curecanti National Recreation Area, 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
At an airfield/14.5 mi away/7,674 ft/150 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW1428CW1428
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.0 mi away/7,711 ft/187 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Montrose 11 ENE03060
At a climate reference station/27.6 mi away/8,402 ft/878 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Blue Mesa Lake CoopBMKC2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.2 mi away/7,608 ft/84 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Sapinero 6.1 NNECO-DL-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.6 mi away/9,455 ft/1,931 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Blue Mesa Lake Coop (BMKC2), 1.2 miles from here, read 19 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in Colorado
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Curecanti National Recreation Area
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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- Crawfordtown, 28 mi
- Cathedralcommunity, 29 mi
- Crested Buttetown, 30 mi
- Lake Citytown, 31 mi
- Mount Crested Buttetown, 32 mi
- Crested Buttesurveyed ski area, 32 mi
- Colonacommunity, 34 mi
- Somersetcommunity, 35 mi
- Paoniatown, 35 mi
- Montrosecity, 36 mi