Airports/New Mexico/Moriarty Municipal Airport
Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Moriarty Municipal Airport until 9 AM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Moriarty Municipal Airport is 46° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the east at 23 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 26° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is moderate (index 76): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. Rain is likely Wednesday (53%) and Thursday (56%). Rain is possible Tuesday (41%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 24°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:28 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:40 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 18 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Moriarty Municipal Airport, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 76, moderate, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Albuquerque (NM), 38 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 / 26 | 7,702 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 90° / 270° | 22 mph head, on 08 | 8 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Moriarty (0E0), Moriarty Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
48 F at 9 PM Thursday; 68 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 36 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 32 F, the air 53% saturated; the humidity ran from 21% at 2 PM Thursday to 80% at 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
24 mph from the east northeast at 9 PM Thursday; at its strongest 24 mph, 9 PM Thursday, with a gust of 39 mph at 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.53 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.10 inHg over 3 hours; 0.33 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
10 miles or more every hour.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Moriarty: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Moriarty Municipal Airport, 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 now3 instruments
Moriarty0E0
At an airfield/0.8 mi away/6,198 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-40 WB at Sedillo MP 181NM010
Beside a road/17.9 mi away/7,043 ft/844 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Oak Flats RAWSTJRN5
A remote fire weather station/18.2 mi away/7,595 ft/1,396 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Moriarty 1.0 SSWNM-TR-32
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/6,232 ft/33 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
BoriartyMRYN5
At a cooperative observer's station/3.5 mi away/6,217 ft/18 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Boriarty (MRYN5), 3.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.