WrayRYA
At an airfield/11.3 mi away/3,667 ft/266 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Vernon 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.
Now. Vernon is 43° and partly cloudy at 10 PM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northwest at 18 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 30° 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 82°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 55°. The days ahead look dry. The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
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 12 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 10:00 PM in Vernon, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 15, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Goodland (KS), 53 miles off.
Yesterday measured 18, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
0.02 in in the last 24 hours, 0.09 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 Vernon, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Vernon, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
WrayRYA
At an airfield/11.3 mi away/3,667 ft/266 ft below here
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Idalia (90)CO047
Beside a road/14.3 mi away/3,876 ft/57 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Co Stratton 24 NSKKC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/25.9 mi away/4,222 ft/289 ft above here
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measured daily2 instruments
Vernon 4EVNOC2
At a cooperative observer's station/3.7 mi away/3,842 ft/91 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Wray 9.1 SCO-YU-70
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/3,838 ft/95 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.3 mi from Vernon, Colorado. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 7,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.4 F with a dew point of 32.0 F, 57 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,300 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 7,000 ft.
From the north northwest (330 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 24 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 35 mph.
The full report of Wray, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.