Citizen station EW6496EW6496
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/4,846 ft/90 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Freeze Watch, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Salt Creek until 9 AM tomorrow. 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 13 degrees warmer: a high of 74° after 61° today.
Now. Salt Creek is 38° and clear at 5 AM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 24°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 5 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 61° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 6 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 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 74°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:23 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 5:00 AM in Salt Creek, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 23, good, led by ozone. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Pueblo (CO), 1 mile off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 33, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 4 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Salt Creek, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Salt Creek, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.9 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station EW6496EW6496
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.2 mi away/4,846 ft/90 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Pueblo 3N AmradPUNC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/5.5 mi away/4,833 ft/77 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/5.9 mi away/4,721 ft/35 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Beside a road/29.5 mi away/5,885 ft/1,129 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Pueblo 2.2 SCO-PU-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.9 mi away/4,836 ft/80 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Wfo PuebloPUBC2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.5 mi away/4,653 ft/103 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 5.9 mi from Salt Creek, Colorado. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Wfo Pueblo (PUBC2), 4.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 23:59. measured daily
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.