Citizen station KC0VVHKC0VVH
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.4 mi away/4,767 ft/1,475 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Now. Colorado National Monument is 60° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the west-southwest at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 78° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 56° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is tomorrow, near 79°, and the coolest Monday, near 64°. Rain is likely Sunday (58%) and Monday (72%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:50 PM. The Moon is a waning crescent, 15% lit, and rises at 4:04 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 36 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Colorado National Monument, Colorado.
Air quality
Index 42, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Canyonlands National Park (UT), 73 miles off.
Yesterday measured 44, good.
Little smoke near the ground through Wed 6 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Mon 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 6 instruments nearest Colorado National Monument, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.6 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Citizen station KC0VVHKC0VVH
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.4 mi away/4,767 ft/1,475 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At a river or reservoir gauge/4.1 mi away/5,784 ft/458 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/10.3 mi away/4,839 ft/1,403 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Palisade (6)CO097
Beside a road/20.8 mi away/4,697 ft/1,545 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Grand Junction 5.9 WSWCO-ME-190
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/4,997 ft/1,245 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/4.0 mi away/5,837 ft/405 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Colorado National Coop (CNMC2), 4.0 miles from here, read 5 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
41 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.