Airports/New Mexico/Cavern City Air Terminal
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Cavern City Air Terminal until 6 PM today. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Cavern City Air Terminal is 60° and clear at 12 PM. The dew point is 28°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northeast at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° 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 Thursday, near 83°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. Rain is possible Thursday (30%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:41 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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 PM in Cavern City Air Terminal, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Carlsbad (NM), 3 miles off.
Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 6 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 | 7,854 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 43° / 223° | 15 mph head, on 03 | 6 mph from the left |
| 08 / 26 | 5,334 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 90° / 270° | 5 mph head, on 08 | 15 mph from the left |
| 14L / 32R unlit | 4,616 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 156° / 336° | 12 mph head, on 32R | 11 mph from the right |
| 14R / 32L | 5,837 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 155° / 335° | 11 mph head, on 32L | 11 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Carlsbad/Cavern Cty (CNM), Cavern City Air Terminal's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
63 F at 9 PM Thursday; 81 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 61 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 39 F, the air 41% saturated; the humidity ran from 20% at 2 PM Thursday to 93% at 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
22 mph from the north northeast at 9 PM Thursday; at its strongest 22 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
30.43 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.18 inHg over 3 hours; 0.44 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
The lowest cloud base came down to 900 ft at 3 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 15 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Carlsbad/Cavern Cty: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Cavern City Air Terminal, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.0 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/3,294 ft/1 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Bat Draw RAWSBATN5
A remote fire weather station/15.1 mi away/4,406 ft/1,111 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Carlsbad 2.8 SSENM-ED-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/3,163 ft/132 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Brantley Dam near CarlsbadBNTN5
At a dam/14.1 mi away/3,316 ft/21 ft above 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.