Airports/New Mexico/Las Vegas Municipal Airport
Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Las Vegas Municipal Airport until 9 AM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Las Vegas Municipal Airport is 36° and mostly clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 26°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north-northeast at 15 mph, gusting to 35 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 53° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 28° 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 Sunday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. Rain is likely Wednesday (58%) and Thursday (58%). Rain is possible Tuesday (43%). The windiest day is Sunday, with wind to 21 mph. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 27°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:34 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Las Vegas Municipal Airport, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 29, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Santa Fe (NM), 53 miles off.
Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 / 20 | 5,006 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 33° / 213° | 8 mph head, on 02 | 10 mph from the left |
| 14 / 32 | 8,199 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 152° / 332° | 13 mph head, on 32 | 2 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Las Vegas Municipal (LVS), Las Vegas Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
41 F at 9 PM Thursday; 59 F at its warmest, 12 PM Thursday, and 35 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 31 F, the air 67% saturated; the humidity ran from 30% at 10 AM Thursday to 69% at 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
19 mph from the north at 9 PM Thursday; at its strongest 26 mph, 5 PM Thursday, with a gust of 38 mph at 2 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.58 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.10 inHg over 3 hours; 0.44 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
Las Vegas Municipal: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 5 instruments nearest Las Vegas 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/6,873 ft/4 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Pecos RAWSLVPN5
A remote fire weather station/20.3 mi away/8,330 ft/1,453 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-25 at RoweNM012
Beside a road/31.8 mi away/6,788 ft/89 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Las Vegas 0.9 NNWNM-SM-9
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.5 mi away/6,514 ft/363 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/9.0 mi away/6,451 ft/426 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.