Holloman AFBHMN
At an airfield/13.5 mi away/4,094 ft/133 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Parks/New Mexico/White Sands National Park
White Sands National Park, New Mexico
National Park in Otero County, New MexicoBlowing Dust Advisory, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the Wind Advisory, northeast winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 50 mph expected. For the Blowing Dust Advisory, visibility between one-quarter and one mile in blowing dust possible. * WHERE...Southern Dona Ana County/Mesilla Valley and West Central Tularosa Basin/White Sands Counties. * WHEN...For the Wind Advisory, until noon MDT Friday. For the Blowing Dust Advisory, until 9 AM MDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions due to reduced visibility. Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Persons with respiratory problems should make preparations to stay indoors until the storm passes. Be ready for a sudden drop in visibility to near zero. If you encounter blowing dust or blowing sand on the roadway or see it approaching, pull off the road as far as possible and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights all the way off and keep foot off the brake pedal. Remember, 'Pull Aside, Stay Alive'. Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Use extra caution.
57°
69°/48°
Clear·
Feels like 57°·Fresh breeze 21 mph ENE
Alert. A Blowing Dust Advisory is in force for White Sands National Park until 9 AM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. White Sands National Park is 57° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the east-northeast at 21 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 67° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 80°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. Rain is likely Thursday (51%). Rain is possible Wednesday (48%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:48 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
29Air quality
34%Humidity
6%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
57feels57
21mph
Today
Oct 16
6948
23mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6339
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
7043
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7751
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
8056
29%
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7958
48%
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7858
51%
UV 6
57°
69°48°
63°39°
70°43°
77°51°
80°56°
79°58°
78°58°
As of 1:00 AM in White Sands National Park, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at White Sands National Park
Index 29, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Las Cruces (NM), 42 miles off.
29Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)6Good-
- Ozone29Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at White Sands National Park
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. 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 White Sands National Park, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National Park
- Area
- 232 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 3,961 ft
- County
- Otero County
- State
- New Mexico
- Latitude
- 32.7786° N
- Longitude
- 106.3244° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest White Sands National Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.6 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
San Andres Mountains RAWSSNDN5
A remote fire weather station/18.0 mi away/6,145 ft/2,184 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.1 mi away/4,048 ft/87 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Jornada Exp RangeS2168
At a soil climate station/26.7 mi away/4,360 ft/399 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Las Cruces 20 N03074
At a climate reference station/26.8 mi away/4,327 ft/366 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
National MonumentWSDN5
At a cooperative observer's station/8.6 mi away/4,002 ft/41 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
WorkingPens-Alamogordo 5.7 WSWNM-OT-116
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.0 mi away/4,050 ft/89 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in New Mexico
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near White Sands National Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Holloman AFBcommunity, 15 mi
- Boles Acrescommunity, 20 mi
- Alamogordocity, 24 mi
- La Luzcommunity, 26 mi
- Tularosavillage, 27 mi
- White Sandscommunity, 29 mi
- Organcommunity, 29 mi
- High Rollscommunity, 31 mi
- Orograndecommunity, 31 mi
- Butterfield Parkcommunity, 32 mi
- Cloudcroftvillage, 36 mi
- Timberoncommunity, 38 mi