Weather Station At Whalen Diversion DamWHBW4
At a dam/5.9 mi away/4,278 ft/37 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Fort Laramie 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 74° after 57° today.
Now. Fort Laramie is 36° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 29°. The dew point is 22°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the northwest at 9 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° 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 76°, and the coolest Sunday, near 69°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:15 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:07 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 4 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Fort Laramie, Wyoming.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 1 AM from its reporting area, Scottsbluff (NE), 50 miles off.
Yesterday measured 22, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
0.68 in in the last 24 hours, 0.94 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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The 6 instruments nearest Fort Laramie, 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
Weather Station At Whalen Diversion DamWHBW4
At a dam/5.9 mi away/4,278 ft/37 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
GuernseyGUR
At an airfield/11.3 mi away/4,364 ft/123 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Torrington #1S2018
At a soil climate station/22.1 mi away/4,280 ft/39 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
ColemanWY1
Beside a road/28.0 mi away/5,019 ft/778 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Fort Laramie 0.2 NNEWY-GS-59
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/4,263 ft/22 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Old Ft Laramie Hictoril SiteOFLW4
At a cooperative observer's station/2.1 mi away/4,242 ft/1 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.3 mi from Fort Laramie, Wyoming. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
38.0 F with a dew point of 22.0 F, 52 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,600 ft up.
From the northwest (310 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale.
The full report of Guernsey, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Old Ft Laramie Hictoril Site (OFLW4), 2.1 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 16:17. measured daily
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.