Silt (7)CO084
Beside a road/4.4 mi away/5,369 ft/1,080 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Harvey Gap State Park is 33° and clear at 5 AM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-northeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 61° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. 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 Wednesday, near 66°, and the coolest Thursday, near 62°. Rain is likely Thursday (62%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:30 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 9 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Harvey Gap State Park, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 19, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Colorado River Valley (CO), 17 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 31, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.00 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 5 instruments nearest Harvey Gap State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Silt (7)CO084
Beside a road/4.4 mi away/5,369 ft/1,080 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/6.6 mi away/5,548 ft/901 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rifle RAWSRFEC2
A remote fire weather station/8.1 mi away/6,158 ft/291 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Rifle 8.9 NECO-GF-81
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/6,509 ft/60 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Rifle 3ENERIEC2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.3 mi away/5,446 ft/1,003 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Rifle 3ENE (RIEC2), 5.3 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.