Co Stratton 24 NSKKC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.0 mi away/4,222 ft/48 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Joes until 9 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. Tomorrow is 18 degrees warmer: a high of 72° after 54° today.
Now. Joes is 41° and partly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 31°. The dew point is 21°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northwest at 20 mph, gusting to 36 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 52° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 1 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 Wednesday, near 81°, and the coolest Monday, near 71°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:10 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:09 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 12:00 AM in Joes, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 13, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Goodland (KS), 56 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.07 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. 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 Joes, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Joes, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.6 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Co Stratton 24 NSKKC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.0 mi away/4,222 ft/48 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Idalia (90)CO047
Beside a road/23.5 mi away/3,876 ft/394 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Yuma2V6
At an airfield/31.6 mi away/4,120 ft/150 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Joes 0.5 NCO-YU-131
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/4,280 ft/10 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Joes 2SEJOEC2
At a cooperative observer's station/1.9 mi away/4,255 ft/15 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 31.6 mi from Joes, Colorado. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:34 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
41.0 F with a dew point of 23.0 F, 48 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,100 ft up.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 24 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 33 mph.
The full report of Yuma, 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.