CottonwoodP52
At an airfield/3.4 mi away/3,540 ft/146 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Verde Village until 6 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Verde Village is 57° and clear at 7 AM. The dew point is 39°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 77° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 54° by 6 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 Monday, near 77°, and the coolest Thursday, near 68°. Rain is likely Wednesday (62%) and Thursday (63%). Rain is possible tomorrow (40%), Monday (36%) and Tuesday (46%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 5:52 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:05 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 7:00 AM in Verde Village, Arizona.
Air quality
Index 33, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Prescott (AZ), 23 miles off.
Good each day through Mon Oct 19, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 39, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 11 PM: the index from smoke stays at 17 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 5 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 11 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Verde Village, ArizonaReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Verde Village, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
CottonwoodP52
At an airfield/3.4 mi away/3,540 ft/146 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW3979DW3979
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/4,248 ft/854 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
CherryCHEA3
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.0 mi away/5,174 ft/1,780 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-17 @ 277.9: Oxtail DrawAZT22
Beside a road/13.3 mi away/4,446 ft/1,052 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Cottonwood 2.2 SSWAZ-YV-100
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/3,528 ft/134 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
TuzigootTNMA3
At a cooperative observer's station/5.3 mi away/3,396 ft/2 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.4 mi from Verde Village, Arizona. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
55.4 F with a dew point of 39.2 F, 54 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,700 ft up.
From the west (260 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 13 mph.
The full report of Cottonwood, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
16 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.