Airports/New Mexico/Sierra Blanca Regional Airport
Now. Sierra Blanca Regional Airport is 43° and mostly cloudy at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 37°. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° 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 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is likely Wednesday (51%) and Thursday (55%). Rain is possible Tuesday (49%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:43 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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Sierra Blanca Regional Airport, New Mexico.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 / 24 | 8,120 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 71° / 251° | 6 mph head, on 06 | 3 mph from the right |
| 12 / 30 | 6,309 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 129° / 309° | 6 mph head, on 12 | 3 mph from the left |
Measured here
Every hour from Ruidoso Regional (SRR), Sierra Blanca Regional Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
47 F at 9 PM Thursday; 66 F at its warmest, 2 PM Thursday, and 43 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 58% saturated; the humidity ran from 19% at 12 PM Thursday to 58% at 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
16 mph from the east at 9 PM Thursday; at its strongest 19 mph, 4 PM Thursday, with a gust of 28 mph at 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.54 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.12 inHg over 3 hours; 0.36 inHg higher than a day before.
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Down to 4 miles at 3 PM Thursday; 10 miles or more now.
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
The lowest cloud base came down to 4,900 ft at 9 PM 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
Ruidoso Regional: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Sierra Blanca 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 now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.0 mi away/6,811 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Sierra Blanca SnotelSIEN5
A snow pillow on a mountain/15.1 mi away/10,280 ft/3,466 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Alto 4.8 NENM-LN-41
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/6,772 ft/42 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
RuidosoRUPN5
At a cooperative observer's station/10.4 mi away/6,949 ft/135 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Ruidoso (RUPN5), 10.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. 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.