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Beside a road/2.3 mi away/6,541 ft/111 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Fishers Peak State Park, Colorado
State Park in Las Animas County, ColoradoFreeze Watch, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the Frost Advisory, temperatures may briefly dip into the lower to mid 30s resulting in frost formation or a light freeze. For the Freeze Watch, a longer period of sub-freezing temperatures in the mid 20s to around 30 degrees will be possible. * WHERE...Eastern Fremont, Pueblo, Crowley, Otero, Las Animas, Huerfano, Bent, Prowers and Baca Counties. * WHEN...For the Frost Advisory, until 9 AM MDT this morning. For the Freeze Watch, from late tonight through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing. Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The coldest readings will occur Friday night into Saturday morning with a killing freeze possible, which could bring an end to the growing season.
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.
36°
54°/31°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 28°·Gentle breeze 11 mph NNE
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Fishers Peak State Park until 9 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 17 degrees warmer: a high of 71° after 54° today.
Now. Fishers Peak State Park is 36° and mostly cloudy at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 28°. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northeast at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. Highs stay close to 73° all week. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:20 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:26 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 14 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
-Air quality
66%Humidity
87%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
36feels28
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 16
5431
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
7130
15mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7338
13mph
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7143
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7345
12mph
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7448
13%
13mph
Thu
Oct 22
7250
28%
17mph
36°
54°31°
71°30°
73°38°
71°43°
73°45°
74°48°
72°50°
As of 6:00 AM in Fishers Peak State Park, Colorado.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fishers Peak State Park
None in the last 24 hours; 0.20 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.20in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Fishers Peak State Park, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 12 AM, lowest 10 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 30 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 6,430 ft
- County
- Las Animas County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 37.1203° N
- Longitude
- 104.5182° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Fishers Peak State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Purgatoire River AT MadridPGMC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.7 mi away/6,289 ft/141 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/13.7 mi away/5,761 ft/669 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Trinidad 4.5 SSWCO-LA-87
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/6,431 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Trinidad LakeTDLC2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.0 mi away/6,280 ft/150 ft below 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 Trinidad Lake (TDLC2), 3.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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