At an airfield/6.6 mi away/5,548 ft/663 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Rifle Gap State Park, Colorado
State Park in Garfield County, Colorado38°
59°/30°
Clear·
Feels like 35°·Light breeze 4 mph NE
Now. Rifle Gap State Park is 38° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° 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. Highs stay close to 62° all week. Rain is likely Thursday (64%). Rain is possible Tuesday (34%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:31 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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
17Air quality
83%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
38feels35
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5930
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6335
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6138
partly cloudy day
Mon
Oct 19
6240
10%
Tue
Oct 20
6142
34%
Wed
Oct 21
6343
29%
Thu
Oct 22
6044
64%
38°
59°30°
63°35°
61°38°
62°40°
61°42°
63°43°
60°44°
As of 12:00 AM in Rifle Gap State Park, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Rifle Gap State Park
Index 17, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Colorado River Valley (CO), 13 miles off.
17Good
- Ozone17Good16 ppb5.6 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 44, good.
GoodModerate
- 44YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Rifle Gap State Park
0.04 in in the last 24 hours, 1.30 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.04in
- Last 3 days
- 1.30in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 3%
Visibility
How far you can see at Rifle Gap State Park, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- State Park
- Area
- 2.08 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 6,211 ft
- County
- Garfield County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 39.6182° N
- Longitude
- 107.7610° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Rifle Gap State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Silt (7)CO084
Beside a road/7.0 mi away/5,369 ft/842 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Rifle RAWSRFEC2
A remote fire weather station/7.4 mi away/6,158 ft/53 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Rifle 1.2 NNECO-GF-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.6 mi away/5,459 ft/752 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Rifle 3ENERIEC2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.9 mi away/5,446 ft/765 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 Rifle 3ENE (RIEC2), 4.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
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