Smith RoadE470I
Beside a road/2.4 mi away/5,548 ft/66 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Aetna Estates, Colorado
Community in Arapahoe County, Colorado* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures falling to 26 to 32 degrees, coldest over the plains. * WHERE...Front Range Urban Corridor and all of the eastern plains. * WHEN...From midnight tonight to 9 AM MDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
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.
41°
56°/38°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 39°·Light breeze 4 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Aetna Estates until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Aetna Estates is 41° and mostly clear at 10 PM. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 32° 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 Saturday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
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 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
64%Humidity
13%Cloud
Now
10:00 PM
41feels39
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 15
5638
90%
25mph
Fri
Oct 16
5832
clear day
Sat
Oct 17
7835
12mph
Sun
Oct 18
7443
partly cloudy day
Mon
Oct 19
7243
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7645
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7849
12mph
41°
56°38°
58°32°
78°35°
74°43°
72°43°
76°45°
78°49°
As of 10:00 PM in Aetna Estates, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Aetna Estates
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Fort Collins (CO), 56 miles off.
27Good
- Ozone27Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 37, good.
GoodModerate
- 37YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 15
- GoodFriOct 16
Smoke, the next 45 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Aetna Estates
None in the last 24 hours; 0.08 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.08in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Aetna Estates, the next 45 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Aetna Estates, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Aetna Estates, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank491of 2,650
At an airfield/4.9 mi away/5,663 ft/49 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW3297DW3297
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.8 mi away/5,620 ft/6 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Commerce City 4E - ArsenalAENC2
On a military installation/11.4 mi away/5,274 ft/340 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Aurora 5.7 ECO-AR-249
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/5,636 ft/22 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Aurora 5SEAUOC2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.1 mi away/5,632 ft/18 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Buckley ANGB/Denver, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 4.9 mi from Aetna Estates, Colorado. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:58 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
A few clouds at 8,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
42.0 F with a dew point of 30.2 F, 63 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,700 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 8,000 ft.
The wind
From the east southeast (110 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 mph.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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