Airports/New Mexico/Grants-Milan Municipal Airport
Now. Grants-Milan Municipal Airport is 49° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the southeast at 20 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 4 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 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. Rain or snow is likely Wednesday (57%) and Thursday (68%). Rain is possible Monday (40%) and Tuesday (39%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:47 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Grants-Milan Municipal Airport, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 33, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Chaco Culture National Historical Park (NM), 60 miles off.
Yesterday measured 50, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 / 31 | 7,172 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 145° / 325° | 17 mph head, on 13 | 5 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Grants-Milan Muni (GNT), Grants-Milan Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
53 F at 9 PM Thursday; 63 F at its warmest, 5 PM Thursday, and 33 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 33 F, the air 47% saturated; the humidity ran from 29% at 5 PM Thursday to 91% 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 13 mph, 9 PM Thursday, with a gust of 29 mph at 9 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; 0.22 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
Grants-Milan Muni: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Grants-Milan Municipal Airport, 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 now3 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/6,519 ft/18 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Grants RAWS 11NEGRSN5
A remote fire weather station/14.1 mi away/8,619 ft/2,082 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ThoreauS2233
At a soil climate station/22.6 mi away/7,065 ft/528 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Milan 0.2 NNWNM-CB-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/6,558 ft/21 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CuberoCBRN5
At a cooperative observer's station/22.5 mi away/6,237 ft/300 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.