Airports/New Mexico/Questa Municipal Nr 2 Airport
Now. Questa Municipal Nr 2 Airport is 33° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 28°. The dew point is 26°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° by 5 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 sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. Highs stay close to 61° all week. Rain is likely Thursday (57%). Rain is possible Tuesday (34%) and Wednesday (46%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:32 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 Questa Municipal Nr 2 Airport, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 0, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Taos (NM), 29 miles off.
Yesterday measured 10, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 / 35 | 6,861 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 182° / 2° | 3 mph head, on 17 | 4 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Questa (N24), Questa Municipal Nr 2 Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
35 F at 9 PM Thursday; 58 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 29 F at its coolest, 6 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 27 F, the air 73% saturated; the humidity ran from 29% at 2 PM Thursday to 83% at 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
2 mph from the south southeast at 9 PM Thursday; at its strongest 24 mph, 3 PM Thursday, with a gust of 38 mph at 4 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.59 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.08 inHg over 3 hours; 0.36 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 4,700 ft at 1 AM Thursday; a base was reported in 3 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
Questa: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Questa Municipal Nr 2 Airport, 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
QuestaN24
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/7,654 ft/46 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
A remote fire weather station/8.3 mi away/7,488 ft/212 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Questa 4.5 SSWNM-TS-40
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.8 mi away/7,935 ft/235 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Eagle NestEGNN5
At a cooperative observer's station/25.0 mi away/8,278 ft/578 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Eagle Nest (EGNN5), 25.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 16:00. measured daily
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.