Airports/New Mexico/Clovis Municipal Airport
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Clovis Municipal Airport until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Clovis Municipal Airport is 49° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northeast at 22 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 56° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. Rain is possible Thursday (47%). The windiest day is Thursday, with wind to 20 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:17 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:29 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 20 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Clovis Municipal Airport, New Mexico.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.05 in over 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 7,200 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 46° / 226° | 20 mph head, on 04 | 6 mph from the left |
| 08 / 26 unlit | 2,442 ft | 75 ft | GRE | 90° / 270° | 11 mph head, on 08 | 18 mph from the left |
| 12 / 30 | 5,697 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 131° / 311° | 4 mph head, on 30 | 21 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Clovis Muni (CVN), Clovis Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
51 F at 9 PM Thursday; 65 F at its warmest, 11 AM Thursday, and 50 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 38 F, the air 61% saturated; the humidity ran from 44% at 4 PM Thursday to 100% at 3 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
31 mph from the north northeast at 9 PM Thursday; at its strongest 33 mph, 4 PM Thursday, with a gust of 47 mph at 8 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.48 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.10 inHg over 3 hours; 0.42 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 0.3 miles at 3 AM Thursday, under a mile for 2 hours; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 200 ft at 3 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 10 of the hours.
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
0.07 in measured in the gauge, the most, 0.06 in, in the hour to 12 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Clovis Muni: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Clovis Municipal 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 now2 instruments
Clovis MuniCVN
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/4,213 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Nm Clovis 7 NCLIN5
At a river or reservoir gauge/8.0 mi away/4,301 ft/85 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Clovis 3.3 ENM-CR-17
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.9 mi away/4,234 ft/18 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ClovisCLON5
At a cooperative observer's station/14.2 mi away/4,485 ft/269 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.