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At a river or reservoir gauge/1.7 mi away/3,976 ft/5 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, Colorado
National Historic Site in Kiowa County, ColoradoFreeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the Freeze Warning, sub-freezing temperatures in the upper 20s to lower 30s. For the Freeze Watch, sub-freezing temperatures in the mid 20s to around 30. * WHERE...El Paso and Kiowa counties. * WHEN...For the Freeze Warning, from midnight tonight to 9 AM MDT Friday. For the Freeze Watch, from late Friday night through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The coldest temperatures will occur Friday night into Saturday morning which may bring an end to the growing season with a prolonged period of subfreezing temperatures.
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.
44°
59°/41°
Clear·
Feels like 38°·Gentle breeze 11 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site 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.
Now. Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site is 44° and clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 11 mph, gusting to 21 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
15Air quality
70%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
44feels38
now, clear
Today
Oct 15
5941
32mph
Fri
Oct 16
5531
21mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
6826
18mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
7134
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
7141
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7743
12mph
Wed
Oct 21
8151
partly cloudy day
44°
59°41°
55°31°
68°26°
71°34°
71°41°
77°43°
81°51°
As of 10:00 PM in Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
Index 15, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Goodland (KS), 70 miles off.
15Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)13Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)15Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 18, good.
GoodModerate
- 18YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 0.21 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.02in
- Last 3 days
- 0.21in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 10%
Visibility
How far you can see at Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National Historic Site
- Area
- 20 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 3,981 ft
- County
- Kiowa County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 38.5642° N
- Longitude
- 102.5194° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, 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
Beside a road/17.5 mi away/4,511 ft/530 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
LamarLAA
At an airfield/35.3 mi away/3,619 ft/362 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Chivington 5.3 NCO-KW-49
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.3 mi away/4,005 ft/24 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Sheridan LakeSHLC2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.7 mi away/4,079 ft/98 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 Sheridan Lake (SHLC2), 13.7 miles from here, read 7 Oct, 09:00. measured daily
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