At an airfield/12.0 mi away/3,668 ft/183 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Parks/New Mexico/Bottomless Lakes State Park
Coming up. Tomorrow is 14 degrees cooler: a high of 64° after 78° today.
Now. Bottomless Lakes State Park is 61° and mostly clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the north-northeast at 22 mph, gusting to 33 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 48° 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 Wednesday, near 81°, and the coolest Saturday, near 61°. Rain is possible Wednesday (31%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 20 mph. Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:44 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the 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 9:00 PM in Bottomless Lakes State Park, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by ozone. Read at 9 PM from its reporting area, Carlsbad (NM), 69 miles off.
Yesterday measured 37, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 4 instruments nearest Bottomless Lakes State Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.7 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/12.0 mi away/3,668 ft/183 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
8 Mile Draw NearREMN5
At a river or reservoir gauge/19.7 mi away/3,707 ft/222 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Roswell 5.5 ENM-CH-31
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.7 mi away/3,523 ft/38 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CaprockCPRN5
At a cooperative observer's station/38.1 mi away/4,341 ft/856 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Caprock (CPRN5), 38.1 miles from here, read 14 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.