Beside a road/18.2 mi away/5,734 ft/247 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Simla, Colorado
Town in Elbert County, Colorado* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures falling to 26 to 32 degrees, coldest over the plains. * WHERE...Front Range Urban Corridor and all of the eastern plains. * WHEN...From midnight tonight to 9 AM MDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent water pipes from freezing; wrap or drain or allow them to drip slowly.
37°
55°/28°
Clear·
Feels like 28°·Gentle breeze 13 mph NNW
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Simla until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 15 degrees warmer: a high of 70° after 55° today.
Now. Simla is 37° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 28°. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 13 mph, gusting to 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 2 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 75°, and the coolest Monday, near 68°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:16 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:17 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.
0UV Low
31Air quality
75%Humidity
12%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
37feels28
13mph
Today
Oct 16
5528
18mph
UV 6
Sat
Oct 17
7031
14mph
UV 6
Sun
Oct 18
7340
partly cloudy day
Mon
Oct 19
6843
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7342
clear day
Wed
Oct 21
7547
partly cloudy day
Thu
Oct 22
7348
14%
15mph
37°
55°28°
70°31°
73°40°
68°43°
73°42°
75°47°
73°48°
As of 12:00 AM in Simla, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Simla
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Colorado Springs (CO), 36 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)29Good-
- Ozone31Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 19, good.
GoodModerate
- 19YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Simla
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 0.05 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.02in
- Last 3 days
- 0.05in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 40%
Visibility
How far you can see at Simla, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Simla, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Simla, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Rank2,365of 2,650
Calhan 5SW AmradCLHC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.5 mi away/6,591 ft/610 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/24.1 mi away/5,364 ft/617 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW7966EW7966
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.0 mi away/6,512 ft/531 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Simla .1 SCO-EL-18
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/6,001 ft/20 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Limon Hass RanchLMOC2
On a farm or research station/20.7 mi away/5,522 ft/459 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Limon Municipal, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 24.1 mi from Simla, Colorado. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
38.0 F with a dew point of 29.0 F, 70 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,000 ft up.
The wind
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 14 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 46 mph.
The full report of Limon Municipal, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
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