A remote fire weather station/7.1 mi away/5,850 ft/134 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/New Mexico/San Augustin Pass
San Augustin Pass, New Mexico
Mountain pass in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, at 5,716 ftBlowing 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.
54°
61°/49°
Clear·
Feels like 54°·Moderate breeze 18 mph ENE
Alert. A Blowing Dust Advisory is in force for San Augustin Pass 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. San Augustin Pass is 54° and clear at 3 AM. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the east-northeast at 18 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 60° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 44° 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 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. Rain is likely Thursday (52%). Thunderstorms is possible Tuesday (37%) and Wednesday (42%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:32 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:50 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
34Air quality
48%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
54feels54
18mph
Today
Oct 16
6149
21mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
5842
18mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6344
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7053
16%
UV 8
Tue
Oct 20
7457
37%
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7459
42%
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7259
52%
UV 6
54°
61°49°
58°42°
63°44°
70°53°
74°57°
74°59°
72°59°
As of 3:00 AM in San Augustin Pass, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at San Augustin Pass
Index 34, good, led by fine particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Las Cruces (NM), 15 miles off.
34Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)34Good13.4 mi
- Ozone27Good29 ppb13.9 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)-6.1 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 38, good.
GoodModerate
- 38YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 46 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at San Augustin Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 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 San Augustin Pass, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 5,716 ft
- County
- Doña Ana County
- State
- New Mexico
- Latitude
- 32.4254° N
- Longitude
- 106.5672° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest San Augustin Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Citizen station FW6984FW6984
In a volunteer observer's own ground/10.0 mi away/4,306 ft/1,410 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Jornada Exp RangeS2168
At a soil climate station/11.9 mi away/4,360 ft/1,356 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Las Cruces 20 N03074
At a climate reference station/16.3 mi away/4,327 ft/1,389 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
At an airfield/22.7 mi away/4,455 ft/1,261 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/2.0 mi away/5,079 ft/637 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
State UniversitySTCN5
On a college campus/14.5 mi away/3,944 ft/1,772 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), 14.5 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 San Augustin Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Organcommunity, 2 mi
- Butterfield Parkcommunity, 5 mi
- White Sandscommunity, 5 mi
- Las Crucescity, 13 mi
- University Parkcommunity, 14 mi
- Doña Anacommunity, 15 mi
- San Ysidrocommunity, 15 mi
- Tortugascommunity, 15 mi
- San Pablocommunity, 17 mi
- Mesillatown, 17 mi
- Fairacrescommunity, 18 mi
- Mesquitecommunity, 19 mi
Mountain passes near San Augustin Pass
- Baylor Pass3 mi
- Hembrillo Pass34 mi
- Sulphur Pass43 mi
- Rhodes Pass57 mi
- Emory Pass77 mi
- Capitan Pass104 mi
- Cedar Pass107 mi
- Broken Jug Pass118 mi