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At a river or reservoir gauge/0.1 mi away/3,681 ft/26 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Chamizal National Memorial, Texas
National Memorial in El Paso County, TexasHigh Wind Warning, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the High Wind Warning, northeast winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph expected. For the Blowing Dust Advisory, visibility between one-quarter and one mile in blowing dust possible. * WHERE...Far West Texas and Otero Mesa. * WHEN...For the High Wind Warning, until noon MDT Friday. For the Blowing Dust Advisory, until 9 AM MDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions due to reduced visibility. Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines. Widespread power outages are expected. Travel will be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
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'. People are urged to secure loose objects that could be blown around or damaged by the wind.
56°
67°/55°
Mostly cloudy·
Feels like 56°·Fresh breeze 21 mph NE
Alert. A High Wind Warning is in force for Chamizal National Memorial until 12 PM 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. Chamizal National Memorial is 56° and mostly cloudy at 8 AM. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the northeast at 21 mph, gusting to 39 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 65° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 46° by 7 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. Air quality is hazardous (index 353): everyone should stay indoors and keep activity low.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 85°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 65°. Rain is possible Wednesday (40%) and Thursday (45%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:33 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:52 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 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
353Air quality
49%Humidity
65%Cloud
Now
8:00 AM
56feels56
21mph
Today
Oct 16
6755
30mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6546
15mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
7347
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
8056
10%
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
8561
17%
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
8563
40%
Thu
Oct 22
8363
45%
UV 7
56°
67°55°
65°46°
73°47°
80°56°
85°61°
85°63°
83°63°
As of 8:00 AM in Chamizal National Memorial, Texas.
Air quality
The air at Chamizal National Memorial
Index 353, hazardous, led by coarse particles. Read at 7 AM from its reporting area, El Paso (TX), 6 miles off.
353Hazardous
- Fine particles (PM2.5)108Unhealthy for sensitive groups8.1 mi
- Ozone34Good39 ppb8.1 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)353Hazardous23.8 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide0Good0 ppb8.1 mi
The days ahead
Highest unhealthy for sensitive groups, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 159, unhealthy.
GoodModerateSensitive groupsUnhealthy
- 159YesterdayOct 15
- Unhealthy for sensitive groupsTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Chamizal National Memorial
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 6 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 Chamizal National Memorial, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National Memorial
- Area
- 2,570,000 sq ft
- Height at its point
- 3,707 ft
- County
- El Paso County
- State
- Texas
- Latitude
- 31.7672° N
- Longitude
- 106.4546° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Chamizal National Memorial, 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 now3 instruments
Citizen station FW2547FW2547
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/3,710 ft/3 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/5.5 mi away/3,917 ft/210 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
El Paso 4.4 SSWTX-EP-146
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.4 mi away/3,766 ft/59 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
TornilloTLLT2
At a cooperative observer's station/32.6 mi away/3,567 ft/140 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Texas
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Chamizal National Memorial
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- El Pasocity, 2 mi
- Fort Blisscommunity, 4 mi
- Prado Verdecommunity, 13 mi
- Canutillocommunity, 13 mi
- Socorrocity, 13 mi
- Sparkscommunity, 14 mi
- Westwaycommunity, 15 mi
- Vintonvillage, 16 mi
- Horizon Citycity, 16 mi
- San Elizariocity, 17 mi
- Homestead Meadows Southcommunity, 17 mi
- Homestead Meadows Northcommunity, 18 mi
Parks near Chamizal National Memorial
- Franklin Mountains State Park11 mi
- Guadalupe Mountains National Park92 mi
- Fort Davis National Historic Site171 mi
- Blackwell School National Historic Site176 mi
- Bush Family Home State Historic Site256 mi
- Big Bend National Park257 mi
- Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River268 mi
- Fort Lancaster State Historic Site291 mi