DeBeque Canyon (7)CO096
Beside a road/7.2 mi away/4,793 ft/161 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Now. De Beque is 43° and clear at 5 AM. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-northeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 66° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 48° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 72°, and the coolest Friday, near 61°. Rain is likely Thursday (86%) and Friday (92%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:33 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, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in De Beque, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 9, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Colorado River Valley (CO), 19 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 35, good.
No smoke near the ground through Mon 12 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.54 in over the last 3 days, to Sat 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 6 instruments nearest De Beque, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
DeBeque Canyon (7)CO096
Beside a road/7.2 mi away/4,793 ft/161 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Pine Ridge RAWSPNRC2
A remote fire weather station/11.5 mi away/6,342 ft/1,388 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/22.2 mi away/4,839 ft/115 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW8921EW8921
In a volunteer observer's own ground/23.1 mi away/4,676 ft/278 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
De Beque 7.1 SSECO-ME-136
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.3 mi away/5,606 ft/652 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Alternbern CoopATBC2
At a cooperative observer's station/14.4 mi away/5,725 ft/771 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 22.2 mi from De Beque, Colorado. From its report of Oct 17, 2026, 4:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
39.0 F with a dew point of 34.0 F, 82 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,100 ft up.
From the east northeast (70 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Grand Junction, 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.