NEPESTA ARKOXFCO - Arkansas RiverAODC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.3 mi away/4,386 ft/97 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Freeze Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Boone until 9 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 13 degrees warmer: a high of 72° after 59° today.
Now. Boone is 48° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 6 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.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 81°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 72°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:18 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:21 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 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Boone, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Pueblo (CO), 19 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 13, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.07 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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The 6 instruments nearest Boone, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
NEPESTA ARKOXFCO - Arkansas RiverAODC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.3 mi away/4,386 ft/97 ft below here
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At an airfield/13.5 mi away/4,721 ft/238 ft above here
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Citizen station EW9174EW9174
In a volunteer observer's own ground/18.8 mi away/4,844 ft/361 ft above here
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La Junta 17 WSW03063
At a climate reference station/35.9 mi away/4,386 ft/97 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Avondale 1.8 NCO-PU-156
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/4,509 ft/26 ft above here
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TaconyTACC2
At a cooperative observer's station/13.7 mi away/4,948 ft/465 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.5 mi from Boone, Colorado. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.0 F with a dew point of 31.0 F, 56 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,400 ft up.
From the north northeast (20 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 52 mph.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Tacony (TACC2), 13.7 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 19:00. measured daily
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.