Tolby SnotelTOLN5
A snow pillow on a mountain/4.8 mi away/10,180 ft/150 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/New Mexico/Comanche Pass
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 55° after 47° today.
Now. Comanche Pass is 26° and mostly clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 18°. The dew point is 23°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 46° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 24° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. 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 Sunday, near 56°, and the coolest Thursday, near 52°. Rain is likely Thursday (57%). Rain is possible Tuesday (32%) and Wednesday (46%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 20°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:31 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 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Comanche Pass, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 0, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Taos (NM), 27 miles off.
Yesterday measured 10, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
The 4 instruments nearest Comanche Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.8 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Tolby SnotelTOLN5
A snow pillow on a mountain/4.8 mi away/10,180 ft/150 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Angel FireAXX
At an airfield/10.5 mi away/8,379 ft/1,651 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
CimarronCPSN5
At a cooperative observer's station/9.1 mi away/6,588 ft/3,442 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Cimarron 0.5 NENM-CL-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.7 mi away/6,497 ft/3,533 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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Snow on the ground
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.