Airports/New Mexico/Lea County Regional Airport
Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Lea County Regional Airport until 9 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lea County Regional Airport is 56° and clear at 12 PM. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the north-northeast at 27 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:19 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:35 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 Lea County Regional Airport, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Hobbs (NM), 6 miles off.
Yesterday measured 31, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 6 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.06 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sun 6 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 / 22 | 8,000 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 45° / 225° | 28 mph head, on 04 | 8 mph from the left |
| 13 / 31 | 6,002 ft | 150 ft | Asphalt | 137° / 317° | 8 mph head, on 31 | 28 mph from the right |
| 17 / 35 unlit | 4,370 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 180° / 0° | 25 mph head, on 35 | 14 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Hobbs/Lea Co. (HOB), Lea County Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
57 F at 9 PM Thursday; 73 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 57 F at its coolest, 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 40 F, the air 53% saturated; the humidity ran from 28% at 10 AM Thursday to 98% at 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
30 mph from the north northeast at 9 PM Thursday; at its strongest 30 mph, 5 PM Thursday, with a gust of 40 mph at 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.41 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.14 inHg over 3 hours; 0.40 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 5 miles at 4 AM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 300 ft at 9 PM Thursday; a base was reported in 14 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
Hobbs/Lea Co.: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 3 instruments nearest Lea County Regional 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 now1 instrument
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/3,658 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hobbs 3.1 SNM-LE-24
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/3,619 ft/42 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Nadine 2ETFUN5
At a cooperative observer's station/8.9 mi away/3,577 ft/84 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.