At an airfield/1.7 mi away/5,016 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Heron Cove, Colorado
Beach in Larimer 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.
42°
60°/29°
Clear·
Feels like 36°·Gentle breeze 11 mph NNE
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Heron Cove until 9 AM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 16 degrees warmer: a high of 76° after 60° today.
Now. Heron Cove is 42° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northeast at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 6 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 73°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:16 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.
0UV Low
39Air quality
61%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
42feels36
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
6029
clear day
Sat
Oct 17
7632
clear day
Sun
Oct 18
7639
partly cloudy day
Mon
Oct 19
7341
mostly clear day
Tue
Oct 20
7741
mostly clear day
Wed
Oct 21
8045
partly cloudy day
Thu
Oct 22
7847
10%
42°
60°29°
76°32°
76°39°
73°41°
77°41°
80°45°
78°47°
As of 12:00 AM in Heron Cove, Colorado.
Air quality
The air at Heron Cove
Index 39, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Fort Collins (CO), 3 miles off.
39Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)15Good8.6 mi
- Ozone39Good29 ppb11.2 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.2 ppm9 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Today, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 37, good.
GoodModerate
- 37YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 16
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Heron Cove
0.20 in in the last 24 hours, 0.54 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.20in
- Last 3 days
- 0.54in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 37%
Visibility
How far you can see at Heron Cove, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Beach
- County
- Larimer County
- State
- Colorado
- Latitude
- 40.4456° N
- Longitude
- 105.0419° W
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Heron Cove, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Citizen station GW0455GW0455
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/4,972 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Airport Road (38)CO050
Beside a road/2.8 mi away/5,013 ft/- ft from here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Big Thompson WNW the Canyon MouthBIMC2
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.8 mi away/5,374 ft/- ft from here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Nunn 7 NNE94074
At a climate reference station/28.9 mi away/5,390 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
CperS2197
At a soil climate station/31.3 mi away/5,330 ft/- ft from here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Loveland 1.6 NECO-LR-1378
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/4,996 ft/- ft from here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Loveland 2NLVDC2
At a cooperative observer's station/2.4 mi away/5,023 ft/- ft from here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Loveland 2N (LVDC2), 2.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:00. measured daily
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