Citizen station GW5387GW5387
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/6,892 ft/133 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Monument 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 10 degrees warmer: a high of 71° after 61° today.
Now. Monument is 34° and mostly cloudy at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 25°. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 12 mph, gusting to 24 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 61° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 1 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 Sunday, near 73°, and the coolest Monday, near 68°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 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 10 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Monument, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Colorado Springs (CO), 17 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 35, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
0.03 in in the last 24 hours, 0.21 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 12 AM, lowest 10 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Monument, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Monument, 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 now4 instruments
Citizen station GW5387GW5387
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/6,892 ft/133 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At a river or reservoir gauge/3.3 mi away/6,998 ft/27 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Monument Hill (85*)CO033
Beside a road/3.6 mi away/7,304 ft/279 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/7.3 mi away/6,572 ft/453 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Monument 0.8 NECO-EP-358
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/7,049 ft/24 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Black Forest 6WNWBKFC2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.7 mi away/6,991 ft/34 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 7.3 mi from Monument, Colorado. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 2,800 ft; the ceiling is 2,800 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
37.0 F with a dew point of 26.0 F, 64 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,500 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 2,800 ft.
From the north (360 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 24 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
The full report of Air Force Academy, 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.