Copeland Lake SnotelCOPC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/2.2 mi away/8,600 ft/33 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 9 degrees warmer: a high of 66° after 57° today.
Now. Allenspark is 28° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 24°. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 79): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 66°, and the coolest Monday, near 60°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:21 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:19 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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Allenspark, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 79, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Denver-Boulder (CO), 33 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 43, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.99 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 8 miles Fri 4 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 7 instruments nearest Allenspark, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Copeland Lake SnotelCOPC2
A snow pillow on a mountain/2.2 mi away/8,600 ft/33 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Lily Lake (35)CO045
Beside a road/7.3 mi away/8,920 ft/353 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Boulder 14 W94075
At a climate reference station/11.7 mi away/9,828 ft/1,261 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Citizen station FW7730FW7730
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.8 mi away/5,599 ft/2,968 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/19.4 mi away/5,056 ft/3,511 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Allenspark 0.9 WCO-BO-570
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/8,547 ft/20 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Co Boulder 14 WWRBC2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.4 mi away/9,839 ft/1,272 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 19.4 mi from Allenspark, Colorado. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
36.7 F with a dew point of 33.8 F, 89 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up.
From the west southwest (250 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Longmont/Vbrand, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.