Cherry CreekE470H
Beside a road/2.6 mi away/5,774 ft/173 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Sierra Ridge until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 18 degrees warmer: a high of 76° after 58° today.
Now. Sierra Ridge is 37° and overcast at 2 AM. With the wind it feels like 34°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 39° by 1 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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. Air quality is moderate (index 55): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 76°, and the coolest Monday, near 69°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:19 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 2:00 AM in Sierra Ridge, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 55, moderate, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Denver-Boulder (CO), 28 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 30, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
0.05 in in the last 24 hours, 0.19 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 1 AM. 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 Sierra Ridge, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Sierra Ridge, 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
Cherry CreekE470H
Beside a road/2.6 mi away/5,774 ft/173 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Citizen station GW6775GW6775
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.9 mi away/5,732 ft/215 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/3.4 mi away/5,883 ft/64 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
FranktownFKTC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.1 mi away/6,221 ft/274 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Parker 2.5 WNWCO-DG-282
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.6 mi away/5,898 ft/49 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
LonetreeLNTC2
At a cooperative observer's station/4.4 mi away/5,906 ft/41 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.4 mi from Sierra Ridge, Colorado. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 1:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Overcast at 3,600 ft; the ceiling is 3,600 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
38.0 F with a dew point of 27.0 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 3,600 ft.
From the north northeast (20 degrees) at 7 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Denver/Centennial, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Lonetree (LNTC2), 4.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.