Airports/New Mexico/Grant County Airport
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Grant County Airport until 12 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Grant County Airport is 58° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the east-northeast at 21 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 62° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 40° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 73°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. Rain is likely Wednesday (52%). Rain is possible Tuesday (45%) and Thursday (49%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:39 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:56 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 AM in Grant County Airport, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 6, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Deming (NM), 36 miles off.
Yesterday measured 8, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03 / 21 unlit | 4,537 ft | 80 ft | GRE | 44° / 224° | 20 mph head, on 03 | 6 mph from the right |
| 08 / 26 | 6,803 ft | 100 ft | Asphalt | 90° / 270° | 18 mph head, on 08 | 10 mph from the left |
| 12 / 30 unlit | 4,675 ft | 75 ft | GRE | 134° / 314° | 6 mph head, on 12 | 20 mph from the left |
| 17 / 35 unlit | 5,473 ft | 75 ft | GRE | 183° / 3° | 11 mph head, on 35 | 18 mph from the right |
Measured here
Every hour from Silver City/Grant (SVC), Grant County Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
60 F at 9 PM Thursday; 71 F at its warmest, 3 PM Thursday, and 41 F at its coolest, 7 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
A dew point of 27 F, the air 29% saturated; the humidity ran from 22% at 4 PM Thursday to 73% at 2 AM Thursday.
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
13 mph from the east northeast at 9 PM Thursday; at its strongest 15 mph, 5 PM Thursday, with a gust of 25 mph at 9 PM Thursday.
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
30.28 inHg at 9 PM Thursday, rising 0.07 inHg over 3 hours; 0.15 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
Silver City/Grant: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
The 4 instruments nearest Grant County 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
At an airfield/0.1 mi away/5,443 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Fort BayardFTBN5
At a river or reservoir gauge/10.9 mi away/6,119 ft/673 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Hurley 0.2 NNENM-GR-60
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.6 mi away/5,727 ft/281 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
White SignalWHSN5
At a cooperative observer's station/13.5 mi away/5,977 ft/531 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at White Signal (WHSN5), 13.5 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 17:00. 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.