Airports/New Mexico/Four Corners Regional Airport
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Four Corners Regional Airport until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Four Corners Regional Airport is 47° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 44°. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 62° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 Tuesday, near 68°, and the coolest Sunday, near 62°. Rain is likely Wednesday (54%) and Thursday (69%). Rain is possible Tuesday (48%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:43 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 15 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Four Corners Regional Airport, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, San Juan County (NM), 13 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 48, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.42 in over 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 / 23 | 6,501 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 64° / 244° | 6 mph head, on 05 | 1 mph from the right |
| 07 / 25 | 6,704 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 88° / 268° | 6 mph head, on 07 | 2 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Farmington Regional (FMN), Four Corners Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
51 F at 9 PM Thursday; 61 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 38 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 44 F, the air 77% saturated; the humidity ran from 46% at 3 PM Thursday to 96% at 1 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
2 mph from the west at 9 PM Thursday; at its strongest 12 mph, 5 PM Thursday, and no gust reported.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.44 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.07 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
The lowest cloud base came down to 500 ft at 7 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 6 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
Farmington Regional: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Four Corners 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/5,502 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Albino Canyon RAWS Near Cedar Hill 15ENECWRN5
A remote fire weather station/37.0 mi away/7,139 ft/1,633 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Farmington 3.4 WSWNM-SJ-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.0 mi away/5,270 ft/236 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ARSFARN5
At a cooperative observer's station/3.1 mi away/5,666 ft/160 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
-
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.