At an airfield/2.8 mi away/4,857 ft/114 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Colorado City until 11 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Colorado City is 54° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the east at 17 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 67° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 47° by 5 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 68°, and the coolest Thursday, near 59°. Rain is likely Tuesday (62%), Wednesday (62%) and Thursday (59%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 26 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:54 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:02 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 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Colorado City, Arizona.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Zion National Park (UT), 17 miles off.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 5 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 5 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Colorado City, ArizonaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 4 instruments nearest Colorado City, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.8 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/2.8 mi away/4,857 ft/114 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Hurricane RAWSQHUA3
A remote fire weather station/20.4 mi away/4,934 ft/37 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mational MonumentPIPA3
At a cooperative observer's station/16.1 mi away/4,911 ft/60 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Fredonia 1.8 NNWAZ-CN-179
In a volunteer observer's own ground/24.9 mi away/4,719 ft/252 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.8 mi from Colorado City, Arizona. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
59.0 F with a dew point of 26.6 F, 29 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 7,300 ft up.
From the east northeast (60 degrees) at 9 mph, gusting 33 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Colorado City, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Mational Monument (PIPA3), 16.1 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.