Centennial 2NECEIC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.0 mi away/5,050 ft/16 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Pierce until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Pierce is 42° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 35°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 29° 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 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
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 10 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Pierce, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 27, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Fort Collins (CO), 17 miles off.
Good each day through Fri Oct 16, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 37, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
0.05 in in the last 24 hours, 0.29 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 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 Pierce, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 8 instruments nearest Pierce, 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 now6 instruments
Centennial 2NECEIC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.0 mi away/5,050 ft/16 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station EW7762EW7762
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.5 mi away/4,905 ft/129 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Nunn 7 NNE94074
At a climate reference station/11.6 mi away/5,390 ft/356 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
Wellington (38)CO042
Beside a road/13.2 mi away/5,111 ft/77 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
CperS2197
At a soil climate station/13.3 mi away/5,330 ft/296 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
At an airfield/15.0 mi away/4,659 ft/375 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Pierce 0.3 SSWCO-WE-621
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/5,040 ft/6 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CR66GEYC2
At a cooperative observer's station/11.5 mi away/4,731 ft/303 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.0 mi from Pierce, Colorado. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:56 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud reported; visibility 10 mi or more.
44.0 F with a dew point of 30.0 F, 58 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,200 ft up.
From the north (10 degrees) at 17 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 40 mph.
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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.