Rock Creek Above Fort Carson ReservationRKCC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.6 mi away/6,617 ft/320 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Rock Creek Park 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 14 degrees warmer: a high of 71° after 57° today.
Now. Rock Creek Park is 39° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northwest at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 2 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 76°, and the coolest Monday, near 69°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:20 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:22 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 12 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Rock Creek Park, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Colorado Springs (CO), 16 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 19, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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The 6 instruments nearest Rock Creek Park, 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
Rock Creek Above Fort Carson ReservationRKCC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/0.6 mi away/6,617 ft/320 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/3.4 mi away/7,309 ft/1,012 ft above here
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115S03365RWS1RHS - 1.7 miles N o CO US CDOTCO224
Beside a road/4.8 mi away/6,522 ft/225 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station FW6605FW6605
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.7 mi away/5,492 ft/805 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Colorado Springs 6.0 SSWCO-EP-177
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.4 mi away/6,486 ft/189 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Ruxton ParkRUXC2
At a cooperative observer's station/12.5 mi away/9,455 ft/3,158 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.4 mi from Rock Creek Park, Colorado. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
42.4 F with a dew point of 30.0 F, 61 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,800 ft up.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 40 mph.
The full report of Cheyenne Mountain, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Ruxton Park (RUXC2), 12.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 10:00. measured daily
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.