Citizen station FW6587FW6587
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/5,582 ft/6 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Fairmount until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 13 degrees warmer: a high of 79° after 66° today.
Now. Fairmount is 39° and overcast at 3 AM. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the north-northeast at 1 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 66° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 79°, and the coolest Monday, near 73°. The days ahead look dry.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:20 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:19 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 9 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Fairmount, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Denver-Boulder (CO), 10 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 36, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.00 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Fairmount, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Fairmount, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station FW6587FW6587
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/5,582 ft/6 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
@ 51St AveCO146
Beside a road/4.0 mi away/5,356 ft/232 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Golden 3SW - Lookout MountainLOOC2
At a fire lookout or ranger station/6.3 mi away/7,515 ft/1,927 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/8.5 mi away/5,656 ft/68 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Boulder 14 W94075
At a climate reference station/25.5 mi away/9,828 ft/4,240 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Arvada 3.6 WSWCO-JF-504
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/5,580 ft/8 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LakewoodLKWC2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.0 mi away/5,646 ft/58 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 8.5 mi from Fairmount, Colorado. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,700 ft; the ceiling is 2,700 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
37.4 F with a dew point of 26.6 F, 65 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,700 ft.
From the east southeast (120 degrees) at 5 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Broomfield/Jeffco, 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.