A remote fire weather station/4.2 mi away/5,850 ft/484 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/New Mexico/Baylor Pass
Baylor Pass, New Mexico
Mountain pass in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, at 6,334 ftWind 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°
68°/52°
Clear·
Feels like 57°·Fresh breeze 24 mph ENE
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Baylor Pass until 12 PM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 10 degrees cooler: a high of 58° after 68° today.
Now. Baylor Pass is 57° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the east-northeast at 24 mph, gusting to 38 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 Tuesday, near 71°, and the coolest Saturday, near 55°. Rain is possible Tuesday (33%) and Wednesday (45%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 24 mph.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 25 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
34Air quality
38%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
57feels57
24mph
Today
Oct 15
6852
24mph
UV 8
Fri
Oct 16
5848
24mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
5540
21mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
6142
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
6851
UV 8
Tue
Oct 20
7156
33%
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7157
45%
UV 6
57°
68°52°
58°48°
55°40°
61°42°
68°51°
71°56°
71°57°
As of 11:00 PM in Baylor Pass, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at Baylor Pass
Index 34, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Las Cruces (NM), 12 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)0Good11.1 mi
- Ozone34Good38 ppb11.7 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-6.3 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Baylor Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 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 Baylor Pass, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 6,334 ft
- County
- Doña Ana County
- State
- New Mexico
- Latitude
- 32.3832° N
- Longitude
- 106.5789° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Baylor Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.2 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station FW6984FW6984
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.4 mi away/4,306 ft/2,028 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Jornada Exp RangeS2168
At a soil climate station/13.9 mi away/4,360 ft/1,974 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Las Cruces 20 N03074
At a climate reference station/18.3 mi away/4,327 ft/2,007 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
At an airfield/21.1 mi away/4,455 ft/1,879 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Las Cruces 11 NENM-DA-93
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.2 mi away/5,079 ft/1,255 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
State UniversitySTCN5
On a college campus/12.1 mi away/3,944 ft/2,390 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at State University (STCN5), 12.1 miles from here, read 14 Oct, 07:30. measured daily
Elsewhere in New Mexico
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Baylor Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Organcommunity, 3 mi
- Butterfield Parkcommunity, 4 mi
- White Sandscommunity, 5 mi
- Las Crucescity, 11 mi
- University Parkcommunity, 12 mi
- Tortugascommunity, 13 mi
- San Ysidrocommunity, 14 mi
- Doña Anacommunity, 14 mi
- San Pablocommunity, 14 mi
- Mesillatown, 15 mi
- Fairacrescommunity, 16 mi
- Mesquitecommunity, 16 mi
Mountain passes near Baylor Pass
- San Augustin Pass3 mi
- Hembrillo Pass37 mi
- Sulphur Pass46 mi
- Rhodes Pass60 mi
- Emory Pass78 mi
- Capitan Pass107 mi
- Cedar Pass110 mi
- Broken Jug Pass116 mi