Fruita, CO Weather Forecast
Mesa County, Colorado
Seven-day outlook
39–61°F across the weekThe week runs between 39° and 61°, with tomorrow the warmest day of it. The second half leans cooling, and Monday is the coolest day in it. Sunday is the wettest day, peaking near 93%. 3 of the 7 days stay dry.
Forecasts come from the National Weather Service's own computer models, and current conditions from the nearest reporting weather station. Both are served through the weather API. A forecast is guidance, not a warning, and anything the Weather Service has actually issued is on the live map.
The written summaries on this page are generated from the forecast data above, not by a meteorologist. Each sentence is a reading of the same numbers you can see, and no forecaster has reviewed them.
About the Fruita forecast
Fruita sits at 39.1556°N, 108.7296°W in Mesa County, Colorado. The forecast above is drawn for that point from the National Weather Service's own computer models: a seven-day outlook, and a finer-grained one covering the next eighteen hours where it reaches, and the radar and alert panels show what the Weather Service has out over the area right now.
- County
- Mesa County
- Coordinates
- 39.1556°N, 108.7296°W
- Population
- 13,816 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 8.009 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Fruita, and the forecast is for that location, not for every address inside the city limits, and a large city can have real weather differences from one side to the other.
How well can the network see Fruita?
The nearest Doppler radar is KGJX (Grand Junction, CO), 28 miles to the ESE. A WSR-88D's lowest routine scan sits half a degree above horizontal, and the earth curves away beneath it, so by the time that beam reaches Fruita its center is about 1,700 ft above ground. That is about as close as radar coverage gets in the United States: the lowest scan is still near the ground when it reaches Fruita, so low-level rotation and the leading edge of a gust front show up on it. Fruita is closer to its radar than 73% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KGJT · Grand Junction Rgnl on the ASOS/AWOS network, 10 miles away. Near enough to be representative on most days, though a summer thunderstorm can soak one and miss the other entirely.
Beam height is the standard 4/3-earth approximation for the 0.5° scan and assumes normal refraction; it is where the center of the beam is, not its edges, and unusual temperature profiles bend it. Radar siting from the NWS WSR-88D network, station positions from the Colorado observing network as of this build.
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