At an airfield/8.2 mi away/6,283 ft/165 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Elkhead State Park, Colorado
State Park in Moffat County, ColoradoFreeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the first Freeze Warning, sub-freezing temperatures as low as 24 expected. For the second Freeze Warning, sub-freezing temperatures as low as 27 expected. * WHERE...Central Yampa River Basin, Lower Yampa River Basin, Upper Yampa River Basin, San Juan River Basin, and Central Colorado River Basin. * WHEN...For the first Freeze Warning, until 10 AM MDT Friday. For the second Freeze Warning, from midnight Friday Night to 10 AM MDT Saturday. * 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.
23°
62°/21°
Clear·
Feels like 18°·Light breeze 4 mph E
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Elkhead State Park until 10 AM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Elkhead State Park is 23° and clear at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 18°. The dew point is 23°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 28° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. Highs stay close to 67° all week. Rain is possible Thursday (47%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 26°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:25 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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
16Air quality
91%Humidity
8%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
23feels18
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
6221
clear day
Sat
Oct 17
6726
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6728
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6633
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6734
15%
Wed
Oct 21
6835
11%
Thu
Oct 22
6637
47%
23°
62°21°
67°26°
67°28°
66°33°
67°34°
68°35°
66°37°
As of 7:00 AM in Elkhead State Park, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Elkhead State Park
Index 16, good, led by fine particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, Steamboat Springs (CO), 30 miles off.
16Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)16Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sat Oct 17, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 12, good.
GoodModerate
- 12YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Elkhead State Park
None in the last 24 hours; 0.91 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.91in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Elkhead State Park, the next 42 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
- 3.28 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 6,448 ft
- County
- Moffat County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 40.5532° N
- Longitude
- 107.3859° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Elkhead State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At a river or reservoir gauge/15.9 mi away/6,211 ft/237 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW5627GW5627
In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.7 mi away/7,667 ft/1,219 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Beside a road/30.3 mi away/6,751 ft/303 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Hayden 1.6 SWCO-RT-79
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.6 mi away/6,534 ft/86 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Hayden CoopHAYC2
At a cooperative observer's station/8.1 mi away/6,470 ft/22 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 Hayden Coop (HAYC2), 8.1 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 18:00. measured daily
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