Temperature
66 F at 9 PM; 77 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 50 F at its coolest, 6 AM.
- Now
- 66F
- 9 PM
- Highest
- 77F
- 4 PM
- Lowest
- 50F
- 6 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/New Mexico/Alamogordo White Sands Regional Airport
Alamogordo White Sands Regional Airport, New Mexico
Medium airport in Otero County, New Mexico* WHAT...Northeast winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph expected. * WHERE...East Central Tularosa Basin, Sacramento Mountains and West Slopes. * WHEN...Until noon MDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines. Widespread power outages are expected. Travel will be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
People are urged to secure loose objects that could be blown around or damaged by the wind.
63°
77°/50°
Clear·
Feels like 63°·Strong breeze 25 mph E
Alert. A High Wind Warning is in force for Alamogordo White Sands Regional Airport until 12 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 67° after 77° today.
Now. Alamogordo White Sands Regional Airport is 63° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the east at 25 mph, gusting to 37 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 47° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 79°, and the coolest Saturday, near 61°. Rain is possible Wednesday (49%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 23 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
34Air quality
30%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
63feels63
25mph
Today
Oct 15
7750
28mph
UV 8
Fri
Oct 16
6746
23mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
6138
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6841
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7550
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7955
29%
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7857
49%
UV 6
63°
77°50°
67°46°
61°38°
68°41°
75°50°
79°55°
78°57°
As of 11:00 PM in Alamogordo White Sands Regional Airport, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at Alamogordo White Sands Regional Airport
Index 34, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Las Cruces (NM), 59 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)0Good-
- Ozone34Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Alamogordo White Sands Regional Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Alamogordo White Sands Regional Airport, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- ALM
- ICAO
- KALM
- IATA
- ALM
- Field elevation
- 4,200 ft
- Serves
- Alamogordo
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- ALM
- Wind now
- From 80° at 24 mph, read 15 Oct, 22:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 9,207 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 47° / 227° | 20 mph head, on 04 | 13 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Alamogordo-White (ALM), Alamogordo White Sands Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 34 F, the air 31% saturated; the humidity ran from 16% at 3 PM to 63% at 5 AM.
- Dew point now
- 34F
- 9 PM
- Humidity now
- 31%
- Humidity, range
- 16 to 63%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
26 mph from the east at 9 PM; at its strongest 26 mph, 9 PM, with a gust of 40 mph at 8 PM.
- Now
- 26mph
- from the east
- Strongest
- 26mph
- 9 PM
- Highest gust
- 40mph
- 8 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.27 inHg at 9 PM, rising 0.09 inHg over 3 hours; 0.21 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.27inHg
- 9 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.09inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.21inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
Down to 4 miles at 7 PM; 6 miles now.
- Now
- 6mi
- Lowest
- 4mi
- 7 PM
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 7 PM; a base was reported in 3 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 300ft
- 7 PM
- Hours with a base reported
- 3
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Alamogordo-White: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Alamogordo White Sands Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/4,196 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Cosmic RAWSCSMN5
A remote fire weather station/10.9 mi away/9,137 ft/4,937 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Alamogordo 4.2 SNM-OT-102
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/4,186 ft/14 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
National MonumentWSDN5
At a cooperative observer's station/11.3 mi away/4,002 ft/198 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in New Mexico
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Alamogordo White Sands Regional Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Boles Acrescommunity, 2 mi
- Holloman AFBcommunity, 5 mi
- Alamogordocity, 5 mi
- La Luzcommunity, 10 mi
- High Rollscommunity, 12 mi
- Tularosavillage, 17 mi
- Cloudcroftvillage, 17 mi
- Timberoncommunity, 22 mi
- Twin Forkscommunity, 23 mi
- Bentcommunity, 24 mi
- Mescalerocommunity, 25 mi
- Sacramentocommunity, 25 mi
Airports near Alamogordo White Sands Regional Airport
- Holloman Air Force BaseHMN, 7 mi
- Sierra Blanca Regional AirportSRR, 51 mi
- Las Cruces International AirportLRU, 66 mi
- Doña Ana County International JetportDNA, 78 mi
- Truth or Consequences Municipal AirportTCS, 79 mi
- Artesia Municipal AirportATS, 89 mi
- Roswell Air Center AirportROW, 91 mi
- Socorro Municipal AirportONM, 97 mi