Wiggins @ Bijou Creek (44)CO039
Beside a road/2.4 mi away/4,453 ft/100 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Wiggins until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 17 degrees warmer: a high of 79° after 62° today.
Now. Wiggins is 30° and clear at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 21°. The dew point is 21°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northwest at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 62° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 5 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 week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 80°, and the coolest Monday, near 75°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:15 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:13 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 8 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 6:00 AM in Wiggins, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 26, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Greeley (CO), 38 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 33, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
0.07 in in the last 24 hours, 0.14 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 5 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 Wiggins, ColoradoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Wiggins, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Wiggins @ Bijou Creek (44)CO039
Beside a road/2.4 mi away/4,453 ft/100 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Fort MorganFMM
At an airfield/16.0 mi away/4,514 ft/39 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
South Platte River 2 N KerseyKERC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/28.8 mi away/4,600 ft/47 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station FW3887FW3887
In a volunteer observer's own ground/35.4 mi away/5,350 ft/797 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wiggins 0.2 SECO-MR-68
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.2 mi away/4,567 ft/14 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Weldona 3ESEWELC2
At a cooperative observer's station/10.9 mi away/4,380 ft/173 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 16.0 mi from Wiggins, Colorado. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
30.2 F with a dew point of 21.2 F, 69 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,000 ft up.
From the northwest (320 degrees) at 12 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 22 mph.
The full report of Fort Morgan, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Weldona 3ESE (WELC2), 10.9 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.