South Platte River Near CrookCKSC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.3 mi away/3,717 ft/8 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Coming up. Tomorrow is 14 degrees warmer: a high of 75° after 61° today.
Now. Crook is 47° and clear at 12 PM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 24°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 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 Thursday, near 78°, and the coolest Monday, near 70°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:09 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:05 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 PM in Crook, Colorado.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.08 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Crook, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Crook, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
South Platte River Near CrookCKSC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/1.3 mi away/3,717 ft/8 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW8226FW8226
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.3 mi away/4,479 ft/770 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Sterling (48)CO035
Beside a road/25.5 mi away/3,954 ft/245 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
SterlingSTK
At an airfield/29.6 mi away/4,035 ft/326 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
CrookCKKC2
At a cooperative observer's station/0.2 mi away/3,707 ft/2 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Iliff 8.9 NECO-LG-67
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/3,937 ft/228 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 29.6 mi from Crook, Colorado. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
50.0 F with a dew point of 23.0 F, 34 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 6,100 ft up.
From the west (260 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 16 mph.
The full report of Sterling, 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.