Indian Sprgs Met Station Nr GreGMSC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.0 mi away/7,694 ft/40 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado
47°
61°/41°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 36°·Gale 41 mph SSE
Now. Great Sand Dunes National Park is 47° and mostly cloudy at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gale from the south-southeast at 41 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 60° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 64°, and the coolest Saturday, near 52°. Rain is likely Thursday (72%) and Friday (89%). Rain is possible Saturday (39%) and Sunday (33%). The windiest day is Friday, with wind to 23 mph. Frost is possible Sunday morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:18 PM. The Moon is a waxing gibbous, 71% lit, and sets at 2:32 AM after midnight. 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 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.
0UV Low
20Air quality
90%Humidity
84%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
47feels36
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 20
6141
mostly clear
Wed
Oct 21
27%
6440
partly cloudy
Thu
Oct 22
72%
6246
rain light
Fri
Oct 23
89%
5847
rain light
Sat
Oct 24
39%
5237
partly cloudy
Sun
Oct 25
33%
5333
mostly clear
Mon
Oct 26
5435
mostly clear
As of 1:00 AM in Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Great Sand Dunes National Park
Index 20, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, San Luis Valley (CO), 22 miles off.
20Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)20Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)16Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 22, good.
GoodModerate
- 22YesterdayOct 19
- GoodTodayOct 20
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Great Sand Dunes National Park
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, and none in the 2 days before, to Tue 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.02in
- Last 3 days
- 0.02in
Visibility
How far you can see at Great Sand Dunes National Park, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 7 miles or more through Wed 6 PM, lowest 8 miles Tue 8 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National Park
- Area
- 233 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 7,734 ft
- County
- Saguache County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 37.7766° N
- Longitude
- 105.6124° W
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Great Sand Dunes National Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
WestcliffeC08
At an airfield/20.9 mi away/8,241 ft/507 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station GW0143GW0143
In a volunteer observer's own ground/21.2 mi away/8,306 ft/572 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
La Veta Pass (74)CO028
Beside a road/25.5 mi away/9,358 ft/1,624 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Great Sand Dunes Natl MonGSDC2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.0 mi away/7,999 ft/265 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Great Sand Dunes 7.0 SSWCO-AM-29
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.0 mi away/7,981 ft/247 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
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Near Great Sand Dunes National Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Hoopertown, 15 mi
- Crestonetown, 16 mi
- Moffattown, 22 mi
- Blancatown, 24 mi
- Gardnercommunity, 24 mi
- Alamosa Eastcommunity, 25 mi
- Alamosacity, 25 mi
- Fort Garlandcommunity, 26 mi
- Westcliffetown, 26 mi
- Silver Clifftown, 26 mi
- Centertown, 27 mi
- Monte Vistacity, 32 mi