Co Stratton 24 NSKKC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.0 mi away/4,222 ft/21 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Kirk, Colorado
Community in Yuma County, ColoradoFreeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the Freeze Warning, sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 expected. For the Freeze Watch, sub-freezing temperatures as low as 27 possible. * WHERE...Cheyenne CO, Kit Carson, and Yuma Counties. * WHEN...For the Freeze Warning, until 9 AM MDT Friday. For the Freeze Watch, from late Friday night through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Drain in-ground sprinkler systems and cover above ground pipes. Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates.
36°
54°/30°
Clear·
Feels like 26°·Moderate breeze 18 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Kirk 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 17 degrees warmer: a high of 71° after 54° today.
Now. Kirk is 36° and clear at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 26°. The dew point is 19°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 35 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 tomorrow, 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
12Air quality
52%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
2:00 AM
36feels26
18mph
Today
Oct 16
5430
20mph
Sat
Oct 17
7129
19mph
Sun
Oct 18
7437
14mph
Mon
Oct 19
7141
clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7741
clear day
Wed
Oct 21
8150
12mph
Thu
Oct 22
7952
15%
18mph
36°
54°30°
71°29°
74°37°
71°41°
77°41°
81°50°
79°52°
As of 2:00 AM in Kirk, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Kirk
Index 12, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Goodland (KS), 50 miles off.
12Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)12Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)10Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 13, good.
GoodModerate
- 13YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Kirk
None in the last 24 hours; 0.05 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.05in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Kirk, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Kirk, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Kirk, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.0 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rank496of 2,650
Idalia (90)CO047
Beside a road/19.9 mi away/3,876 ft/325 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
BurlingtonITR
At an airfield/29.7 mi away/4,216 ft/15 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Joes 2SEJOEC2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.0 mi away/4,255 ft/54 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Kirk 6.2 ECO-YU-59
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/4,137 ft/64 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The weather at Burlington, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 29.7 mi from Kirk, Colorado. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
35.0 F with a dew point of 26.0 F, 69 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,000 ft up.
The wind
From the north (350 degrees) at 10 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 36 mph.
The full report of Burlington, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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