Temperature
65 F at 7 PM; 71 F at its warmest, 3 PM, and 48 F at its coolest, 5 AM.
- Now
- 65F
- 7 PM
- Highest
- 71F
- 3 PM
- Lowest
- 48F
- 5 AM
How it is measured: Stevenson screen and siting, Field Book FB-INS-009
Airports/New Mexico/Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport
Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport, New Mexico
Medium airport in Sierra County, New Mexico* WHAT...Northeast winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 50 mph expected. * WHERE...East Slopes Sacramento Mountains, Northern Dona Ana, and Sierra County Lakes Counties. * WHEN...Until noon MDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Use extra caution.
65°
72°/47°
Clear·
Feels like 65°·Moderate breeze 17 mph NE
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport until 12 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport is 65° and clear at 8 PM. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northeast at 17 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 49° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 75°, and the coolest Saturday, near 61°. Rain is possible Tuesday (42%) and Wednesday (47%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 30 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:57 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
31Air quality
27%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
8:00 PM
65feels65
17mph
Today
Oct 15
7247
30mph
UV 8
Fri
Oct 16
6649
30mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
6141
18mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6845
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7450
10%
13mph
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7555
42%
12mph
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7456
47%
65°
72°47°
66°49°
61°41°
68°45°
74°50°
75°55°
74°56°
As of 8:00 PM in Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 8 PM from its reporting area, Las Cruces (NM), 70 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)0Good-
- Ozone31Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 41 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sat 12 PM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 7 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 12 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Airfield
- Code
- TCS
- ICAO
- KTCS
- IATA
- TCS
- Field elevation
- 4,853 ft
- Serves
- Truth or Consequences
- Kind
- Medium airport
- Scheduled service
- No
- Its own instrument
- TCS
- Wind now
- From 40° at 13 mph, read 15 Oct, 19:53
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface | Heading, true | Wind along it now | Crosswind now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 / 19 unlit | 3,302 ft | 130 ft | GVL | 22° / 202° | 12 mph head, on 01 | 4 mph from the right |
| 07 / 25 unlit | 2,933 ft | 130 ft | GVL | 79° / 259° | 10 mph head, on 07 | 8 mph from the left |
| 11 / 29 unlit | 6,981 ft | 190 ft | GVL | 126° / 306° | 1 mph head, on 11 | 13 mph from the left |
| 13 / 31 | 7,202 ft | 75 ft | Asphalt | 144° / 324° | 3 mph head, on 31 | 13 mph from the right |
| 15 / 33 unlit | 3,001 ft | 140 ft | GVL | 162° / 342° | 7 mph head, on 33 | 11 mph from the right |
Measured here
What the airfield's own instrument measured, the last 24 hours
Every hour from Truth Or Consequenc (TCS), Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport's own instrument, measure by measure, on the field's own clock.
Humidity and dew point
A dew point of 30 F, the air 27% saturated; the humidity ran from 20% at 3 PM to 52% at 5 AM.
- Dew point now
- 30F
- 7 PM
- Humidity now
- 27%
- Humidity, range
- 20 to 52%
How it is measured: Humidity variables, Field Book FB-WAT-002
Wind
15 mph from the northeast at 8 PM; at its strongest 15 mph, 8 PM, with a gust of 23 mph at 1 PM.
- Now
- 15mph
- from the northeast
- Strongest
- 15mph
- 8 PM
- Highest gust
- 23mph
- 1 PM
How it is measured: Coriolis as geometry, Field Book FB-ENG-008
Pressure
30.26 inHg at 7 PM, rising 0.06 inHg over 3 hours; 0.19 inHg higher than a day before.
- Now
- 30.26inHg
- 7 PM
- 3 hours
- +0.06inHg
- rising
- 24 hours
- +0.19inHg
How it is measured: Hydrostatic balance, Field Book FB-ENG-003
Visibility
10 miles or more every hour.
- Now
- 10+mi
- Lowest
- 10+mi
- Hours under a mile
- 0
How it is measured: Fog types, Field Book FB-WAT-020
Precipitation
None measured in the gauge in the last 24 hours.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Wettest hour
- -
- Hours with some
- 0
How it is measured: ASOS, Field Book FB-INS-002
Truth Or Consequenc: every reading, the last 7 days, 30 days and the year, and how well it reports
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/0.2 mi away/4,859 ft/6 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Caballo Lake ParkCLKN5
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.6 mi away/4,230 ft/623 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Elephant Butte 1.2 NWNM-SR-37
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.1 mi away/4,544 ft/309 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Elephant Butte DamEPHN5
At a dam/7.9 mi away/4,442 ft/411 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in New Mexico
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Elephant Buttecity, 4 mi
- Hot Springs Landingcommunity, 4 mi
- Truth or Consequencescity, 7 mi
- Williamsburgvillage, 8 mi
- Las Palomascommunity, 13 mi
- Caballocommunity, 17 mi
- Oasiscommunity, 21 mi
- Winstoncommunity, 23 mi
- Arreycommunity, 27 mi
- Hillsborocommunity, 28 mi
- Garfieldcommunity, 33 mi
- Kingstoncommunity, 34 mi
Airports near Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport
- Socorro Municipal AirportONM, 58 mi
- Grant County AirportSVC, 66 mi
- Las Cruces International AirportLRU, 69 mi
- Deming Municipal AirportDMN, 72 mi
- Holloman Air Force BaseHMN, 73 mi
- Alamogordo White Sands Regional AirportALM, 79 mi
- Doña Ana County International JetportDNA, 99 mi
- Belen Regional AirportBRG, 100 mi