Purgatoire River At Rock Crossing Nr Timpas07126485
At a river or reservoir gauge/29.0 mi away/4,350 ft/1,346 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Kim, Colorado
Town in Las Animas County, ColoradoFreeze Watch, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the Frost Advisory, temperatures may briefly dip into the lower to mid 30s resulting in frost formation or a light freeze. For the Freeze Watch, a longer period of sub-freezing temperatures in the mid 20s to around 30 degrees will be possible. * WHERE...Eastern Fremont, Pueblo, Crowley, Otero, Las Animas, Huerfano, Bent, Prowers and Baca Counties. * WHEN...For the Frost Advisory, until 9 AM MDT this morning. For the Freeze Watch, from late tonight through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing. Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The coldest readings will occur Friday night into Saturday morning with a killing freeze possible, which could bring an end to the growing season.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent water pipes from freezing; wrap or drain or allow them to drip slowly.
37°
49°/30°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 29°·Gentle breeze 12 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Kim until 9 AM tomorrow. 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 20 degrees warmer: a high of 69° after 49° today.
Now. Kim is 37° and partly cloudy at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° 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 sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 75°, and the coolest Monday, near 67°. Rain is possible Thursday (32%). The windiest day is Thursday, with wind to 22 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:15 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:21 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 14 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
11Air quality
73%Humidity
51%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
37feels29
12mph
Today
Oct 16
4930
17mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6929
21mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7241
15mph
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
6744
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7447
20mph
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7553
21mph
Thu
Oct 22
7253
32%
22mph
37°
49°30°
69°29°
72°41°
67°44°
74°47°
75°53°
72°53°
As of 2:00 AM in Kim, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Kim
Index 11, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Lamar (CO), 70 miles off.
11Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)11Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)6Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 11, good.
GoodModerate
- 11YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Kim
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Kim, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Kim, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 3 instruments nearest Kim, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now1 instrument
Rank484of 2,650
measured daily2 instruments
Kim 0.3 SSWCO-LA-73
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/5,714 ft/18 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
KimKIXC2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.3 mi away/5,289 ft/407 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
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