Elk River SnotelELKC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/3.4 mi away/8,700 ft/588 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 51° after 43° today.
Now. Steamboat Lake State Park is 31° and clear at 9 PM. With the wind it feels like 24°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northeast at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 25° by 6 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 56°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 23°.
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 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Steamboat Lake State Park, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Medicine Bow National Forest (WY), 53 miles off.
Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.56 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Steamboat Lake State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Elk River SnotelELKC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/3.4 mi away/8,700 ft/588 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/20.3 mi away/6,877 ft/1,235 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/24.6 mi away/6,751 ft/1,361 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW5627GW5627
In a volunteer observer's own ground/27.9 mi away/7,667 ft/445 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Clark 6.8 NCO-RT-36
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/8,103 ft/9 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Steamboat SpringsSBTC2
At a cooperative observer's station/21.0 mi away/6,739 ft/1,373 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.