Ward (35)CO044
Beside a road/1.8 mi away/9,155 ft/198 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 51° after 43° today.
Now. Hidden Lake is 28° and clear at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 23°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the west-northwest at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 24° by 3 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 Saturday, near 61°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 22°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 11 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Hidden Lake, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Fort Collins (CO), 36 miles off.
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 37, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 1.00 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Mist or haze: visibility falls to 3 miles Fri 2 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Hidden Lake, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Hidden Lake, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Ward (35)CO044
Beside a road/1.8 mi away/9,155 ft/198 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Middle St Vrain CRKMSPC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.8 mi away/9,055 ft/98 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Boulder 14 W94075
At a climate reference station/6.2 mi away/9,828 ft/871 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Citizen station FW7730FW7730
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.4 mi away/5,599 ft/3,358 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
BoulderBDU
At an airfield/14.1 mi away/5,289 ft/3,668 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ward 4.6 NECO-BO-202
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/8,560 ft/397 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Co Boulder 14 WWRBC2
At a cooperative observer's station/5.9 mi away/9,839 ft/882 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.1 mi from Hidden Lake, Colorado. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
42.8 F with a dew point of 33.8 F, 70 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up.
From the south (190 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 30 mph.
The full report of Boulder, 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.