I-70 @ Bennett (45)CO072
Beside a road/1.0 mi away/5,484 ft/8 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. Bennett is 41° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the southwest at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 75° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 45° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 56): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 77°, and the coolest Monday, near 71°. Rain is possible Friday (31%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:16 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:16 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 7 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Bennett, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 56, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Denver-Boulder (CO), 34 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 39, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.04 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Bennett, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Bennett, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
I-70 @ Bennett (45)CO072
Beside a road/1.0 mi away/5,484 ft/8 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station KE0RKBKE0RKB
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.7 mi away/5,781 ft/289 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/6.0 mi away/5,493 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Commerce City 4E - ArsenalAENC2
On a military installation/23.1 mi away/5,274 ft/218 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ft. Lupton 3.2 NNECO-WE-24
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/5,489 ft/3 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ByersBYEC2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.6 mi away/5,276 ft/216 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.0 mi from Bennett, Colorado. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 12:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
41.0 F with a dew point of 24.8 F, 52 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 southwest (230 degrees) at 10 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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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.