South Platte River 1 SE JulesburgJULC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.1 mi away/3,461 ft/71 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Ovid until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 9 degrees cooler: a high of 55° after 64° today.
Now. Ovid is 40° and mostly clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 30°. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 19 mph, gusting to 38 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 31° by 7 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 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 11:00 PM in Ovid, Colorado.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.05 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 10 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 Ovid, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Ovid, 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 now4 instruments
South Platte River 1 SE JulesburgJULC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.1 mi away/3,461 ft/71 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Julesburg (50)CO034
Beside a road/7.4 mi away/3,440 ft/92 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
HolyokeHEQ
At an airfield/27.8 mi away/3,730 ft/198 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station KA0WKGKA0WKG
In a volunteer observer's own ground/29.2 mi away/3,775 ft/243 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Ovid .12 ECO-SG-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/3,537 ft/5 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
JulesburgJLBC2
At a cooperative observer's station/6.4 mi away/3,488 ft/44 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 27.8 mi from Ovid, Colorado. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
40.0 F with a dew point of 26.4 F, 58 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,100 ft up.
From the north (360 degrees) at 13 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 40 mph.
The full report of Holyoke, 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.