Temperature
69 F at 7 PM; 78 F at its warmest, 4 PM, and 51 F at its coolest, 5 AM.
- Now
- 69F
- 7 PM
- Highest
- 78F
- 4 PM
- Lowest
- 51F
- 5 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/New Mexico/Holloman Air Force Base
Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico
Medium airport in Otero County, New Mexico* WHAT...Northeast winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph expected. * WHERE...East Central Tularosa Basin, Sacramento Mountains and West Slopes. * WHEN...Until noon MDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines. Widespread power outages are expected. Travel will be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
People are urged to secure loose objects that could be blown around or damaged by the wind.
68°
78°/51°
Clear·
Feels like 68°·Fresh breeze 23 mph ENE
Alert. A High Wind Warning is in force for Holloman Air Force Base until 12 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 70° after 78° today.
Now. Holloman Air Force Base is 68° and clear at 8 PM. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the east-northeast at 23 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 48° 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 Tuesday, near 80°, and the coolest Saturday, near 63°. Rain is possible Wednesday (49%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:53 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
31Air quality
28%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
8:00 PM
68feels68
23mph
Today
Oct 15
7851
30mph
UV 8
Fri
Oct 16
7048
25mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6338
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7042
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7750
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
8056
28%
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
8057
49%
UV 6
68°
78°51°
70°48°
63°38°
70°42°
77°50°
80°56°
80°57°
As of 8:00 PM in Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at Holloman Air Force Base
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Las Cruces (NM), 54 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)0Good-
- Ozone31Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 12 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Holloman Air Force Base
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Holloman Air Force Base, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 12 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- HMN
- ICAO
- KHMN
- IATA
- HMN
- Field elevation
- 4,093 ft
- Serves
- Alamogordo
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- HMN
- Wind now
- From 60° at 22 mph, read 15 Oct, 19:55
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 10,578 ft | 300 ft | Asphalt and concrete | 48° / 228° | 22 mph head, on 04 | 5 mph from the right |
| 07 / 25 | 12,922 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt and concrete | 80° / 260° | 21 mph head, on 07 | 8 mph from the left |
| 16 / 34 | 12,134 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt and concrete | 167° / 347° | 6 mph head, on 34 | 21 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Holloman AFB (HMN), Holloman Air Force Base's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 35 F, the air 28% saturated; the humidity ran from 15% at 2 PM to 57% at 1 AM.
- Dew point now
- 35F
- 7 PM
- Humidity now
- 28%
- Humidity, range
- 15 to 57%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
22 mph from the east northeast at 7 PM; at its strongest 22 mph, 7 PM, with a gust of 28 mph at 7 PM.
- Now
- 22mph
- from the east northeast
- Strongest
- 22mph
- 7 PM
- Highest gust
- 28mph
- 7 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.24 inHg at 7 PM, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.18 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.24inHg
- 7 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.07inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.18inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
10 miles or more every hour.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 10+mi
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Cloud base
The lowest cloud base came down to 6,000 ft at 9 PM Wednesday; a base was reported in 8 of the hours.
- Lowest base now
- -
- Lowest in 24 hours
- 6,000ft
- 9 PM Wednesday
- Hours with a base reported
- 8
How it is measured: Cloud classification, Field Book FB-SKY-001
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Holloman AFB: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Holloman Air Force Base, 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
Holloman AFBHMN
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/4,094 ft/1 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Cosmic RAWSCSMN5
A remote fire weather station/17.5 mi away/9,137 ft/5,044 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
WorkingPens-Alamogordo 5.7 WSWNM-OT-116
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.7 mi away/4,050 ft/43 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
National MonumentWSDN5
At a cooperative observer's station/6.3 mi away/4,002 ft/91 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in New Mexico
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Holloman Air Force Base
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Holloman AFBcommunity, 2 mi
- Boles Acrescommunity, 8 mi
- Alamogordocity, 10 mi
- La Luzcommunity, 12 mi
- Tularosavillage, 16 mi
- High Rollscommunity, 17 mi
- Cloudcroftvillage, 22 mi
- Bentcommunity, 26 mi
- Mescalerocommunity, 28 mi
- Timberoncommunity, 28 mi
- Twin Forkscommunity, 29 mi
- Sacramentocommunity, 32 mi
Airports near Holloman Air Force Base
- Alamogordo White Sands Regional AirportALM, 7 mi
- Sierra Blanca Regional AirportSRR, 54 mi
- Las Cruces International AirportLRU, 61 mi
- Truth or Consequences Municipal AirportTCS, 73 mi
- Doña Ana County International JetportDNA, 76 mi
- Socorro Municipal AirportONM, 93 mi
- Artesia Municipal AirportATS, 95 mi
- Roswell Air Center AirportROW, 96 mi