Beside a road/14.2 mi away/4,511 ft/226 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Kit Carson, Colorado
Town in Cheyenne County, Colorado* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 29 expected. * WHERE...Portions of east central and northeast Colorado, northwest and west central Kansas, and southwest Nebraska. * WHEN...From midnight MDT /1 AM CDT/ tonight to 9 AM MDT /10 AM CDT/ Saturday. * 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.
33°
69°/27°
Clear·
Feels like 28°·Light breeze 6 mph SW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Kit Carson until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Kit Carson is 33° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 28°. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the southwest at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 6, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 77°, and the coolest Monday, near 68°. Rain is possible Friday (42%). The windiest day is Thursday, with wind to 24 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:10 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:12 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.
0UV Low
14Air quality
72%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
33feels28
now, clear
Today
Oct 17
6927
17mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
6934
mostly clear day
Mon
Oct 19
6840
12mph
Tue
Oct 20
7442
clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7748
partly cloudy day
Thu
Oct 22
7751
16%
24mph
Fri
Oct 23
7653
42%
22mph
33°
69°27°
69°34°
68°40°
74°42°
77°48°
77°51°
76°53°
As of 12:00 AM in Kit Carson, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Kit Carson
Index 14, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Lamar (CO), 48 miles off.
14Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)14Good-
- Coarse particles (PM10)7Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 11, good.
GoodModerate
- 11YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 17
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Kit Carson
None in the last 24 hours; 0.11 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.11in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Kit Carson, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Kit Carson, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Kit Carson, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Rank2,342of 2,688
Co Eads 16 ENEESAC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/21.9 mi away/3,976 ft/309 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Kit Carson 0.3 NCO-CH-32
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/4,286 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Kit Carson 9NNEKCCC2
At a cooperative observer's station/9.2 mi away/4,350 ft/65 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at US-40 @ Firstview (92), drawn
The nearest instrument reporting now, 14.2 mi from Kit Carson, Colorado. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:31 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud reported; visibility 1.25 mi.
The air
36.1 F with a dew point of 24.8 F, 63 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,600 ft up.
The wind
From the north (0 degrees) at 11 mph, gusting 11 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Colorado
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
AlamosacityArapahoe Basinsurveyed ski areaAspen Highlandssurveyed ski areaAspen Mountainsurveyed ski areaBeaver Creeksurveyed ski areaBerthoud PassfeatureBouldercityBreckenridgesurveyed ski areaButtermilksurveyed ski areaColorado SpringscityCopper Mountainsurveyed ski areaCrested Buttesurveyed ski areaDenvercityDurangocityEldoraski areaFort CollinscityGranby Ranchski areaGrand JunctioncityGunnisoncityHowelsen Hillski areaIndependence PassfeatureKeystonesurveyed ski areaLeadvillecityLoveland PassfeatureLoveland Ski Areaski areaMount ElbertfeaturePowderhornski areaPueblocityPurgatoryski areaSilvertontownSilverton Mountainski areaSki Cooperski areaSnowmasssurveyed ski areaSteamboatsurveyed ski areaSteamboat SpringscitySunlight Mountainski areaTelluridesurveyed ski areaVailsurveyed ski areaWinter Parksurveyed ski areaWolf Creekski areaWolf Creek Passfeature
Near Kit Carson
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.