Purgatoire River AT MadridPGMC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.4 mi away/6,289 ft/37 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Cokedale, Colorado
Town in Las Animas County, ColoradoFreeze Watch, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the Frost Advisory, temperatures may briefly dip into the lower to mid 30s resulting in frost formation or a light freeze. For the Freeze Watch, a longer period of sub-freezing temperatures in the mid 20s to around 30 degrees will be possible. * WHERE...Eastern Fremont, Pueblo, Crowley, Otero, Las Animas, Huerfano, Bent, Prowers and Baca Counties. * WHEN...For the Frost Advisory, from 2 AM to 9 AM MDT Friday. For the Freeze Watch, from late Friday night through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing. Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The coldest readings will occur Friday night into Saturday morning with a killing freeze possible, which could bring an end to the growing season.
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.
40°
56°/37°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 34°·Gentle breeze 9 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Cokedale until 9 AM Saturday. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Cokedale is 40° and mostly clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 33° by 7 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 week. The warmest day ahead is Sunday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 54°. 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 south-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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
0Air quality
84%Humidity
29%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
40feels34
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 15
5637
26mph
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
5432
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6931
14mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7239
12mph
Mon
Oct 19
6944
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7145
12mph
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7248
17%
12mph
40°
56°37°
54°32°
69°31°
72°39°
69°44°
71°45°
72°48°
As of 11:00 PM in Cokedale, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Cokedale
Index 0, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Taos (NM), 75 miles off.
0Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)0Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 10, good.
GoodModerate
- 10YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Cokedale
None in the last 24 hours; 0.13 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.13in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Cokedale, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Cokedale, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Cokedale, 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 now3 instruments
Rank1,329of 2,650
Raton Pass (74)CO025
Beside a road/6.8 mi away/6,541 ft/215 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/17.4 mi away/5,761 ft/565 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Boncarbo 4.8 ESECO-LA-91
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/6,693 ft/367 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Trinidad LakeTDLC2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.6 mi away/6,280 ft/46 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Trinidad/Animas Co., drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 17.4 mi from Cokedale, Colorado. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:54 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
37.0 F with a dew point of 34.0 F, 89 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up.
The wind
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 48 mph.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Trinidad Lake (TDLC2), 3.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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