Co Dinosaur 2 EDNOC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.2 mi away/6,115 ft/233 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Dinosaur, Colorado
Town in Moffat County, ColoradoFreeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the first Freeze Warning, sub-freezing temperatures as low as 24 expected. For the second Freeze Warning, sub-freezing temperatures as low as 27 expected. * WHERE...Central Yampa River Basin, Lower Yampa River Basin, Upper Yampa River Basin, San Juan River Basin, and Central Colorado River Basin. * WHEN...For the first Freeze Warning, until 10 AM MDT Friday. For the second Freeze Warning, from midnight Friday Night to 10 AM MDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
42°
56°/30°
Clear·
Feels like 37°·Gentle breeze 9 mph ENE
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Dinosaur until 10 AM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Dinosaur is 42° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east-northeast at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 51° 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 week. Highs stay close to 62° all week. Rain is likely Thursday (60%). Rain is possible Tuesday (37%) and Wednesday (34%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:33 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 8 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
27Air quality
64%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
42feels37
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5630
clear day
Sat
Oct 17
6031
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
6035
partly cloudy day
Mon
Oct 19
6138
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
6141
37%
Wed
Oct 21
6343
34%
Thu
Oct 22
6043
60%
42°
56°30°
60°31°
60°35°
61°38°
61°41°
63°43°
60°43°
As of 12:00 AM in Dinosaur, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Dinosaur
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Dinosaur National Monument (UT), 21 miles off.
27Good
- Ozone27Good32 ppb18.3 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide0Good0.3 ppb18.3 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 48, good.
GoodModerate
- 48YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Dinosaur
None in the last 24 hours; 0.73 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.73in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Dinosaur, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 7 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Dinosaur, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Dinosaur, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rank1,684of 2,650
Dinosaur 2 E94082
At a climate reference station/2.6 mi away/6,062 ft/180 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Rangely4V0
At an airfield/16.7 mi away/5,266 ft/616 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Dinosaur 0.3 SWCO-MF-28
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/5,872 ft/10 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Co Dinosaur 2 EDNOC2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.2 mi away/6,115 ft/233 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Rangely, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.7 mi from Dinosaur, Colorado. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:35 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
44.2 F with a dew point of 32.0 F, 62 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,800 ft up.
The wind
From the east (80 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 mph.
The full report of Rangely, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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