Airports/New Mexico/Belen Regional Airport
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Belen Regional Airport until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Belen Regional Airport is 54° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east-northeast at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 62° 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 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 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. Rain is possible Wednesday (42%) and Thursday (48%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:44 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Belen Regional Airport, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 76, moderate, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Albuquerque (NM), 32 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 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 | 6,601 ft | 60 ft | Asphalt | 44° / 224° | 4 mph head, on 03 | 8 mph from the right |
| 13 / 31 unlit | 5,280 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 135° / 315° | 8 mph head, on 13 | 4 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Belen (BRG), Belen Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
59 F at 9 PM Thursday; 69 F at its warmest, 5 PM Thursday, and 43 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 31 F, the air 35% saturated; the humidity ran from 25% at 5 PM Thursday to 73% at 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
13 mph from the east southeast at 9 PM Thursday; at its strongest 14 mph, 10 AM Thursday, with a gust of 24 mph at 8 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.43 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.11 inHg over 3 hours; 0.22 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
Belen: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 7 instruments nearest Belen Regional Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
BelenBRG
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/5,171 ft/23 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Los Lunas Pmc ScanLNAN5
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.6 mi away/4,767 ft/427 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Los Lunas PMCS2169
At a soil climate station/9.6 mi away/4,846 ft/348 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Socorro 20 N03048
At a climate reference station/20.6 mi away/4,847 ft/347 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
I-40 at SR6NM001
Beside a road/30.2 mi away/5,560 ft/366 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Belen 1.2 WSWNM-VL-48
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/4,919 ft/275 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Los Lunas Ag Science CenterLLUN5
At a cooperative observer's station/9.4 mi away/4,833 ft/361 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
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Snow on the ground
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.