Bair Ranch (8)CO090
Beside a road/4.7 mi away/6,125 ft/14 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Dotsero 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. Dotsero is 34° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 24°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-northeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 67° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° 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. Highs stay close to 71° all week. Rain is possible Thursday (48%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:28 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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 2:00 AM in Dotsero, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 20, good, led by ozone. Read at 2 AM from its reporting area, Aspen (CO), 34 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 31, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.33 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Dotsero, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Dotsero, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Bair Ranch (8)CO090
Beside a road/4.7 mi away/6,125 ft/14 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
GypsumGPRC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.1 mi away/7,365 ft/1,226 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/7.9 mi away/6,539 ft/400 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Gypsum 1.0 SWCO-EG-69
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.8 mi away/6,574 ft/435 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Glenwood Springs - ShoshoneGWDC2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.9 mi away/6,215 ft/76 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.9 mi from Dotsero, Colorado. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:56 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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Snow on the ground
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