Hatchet RanchHHRN5
On a farm or research station/22.2 mi away/4,291 ft/685 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/New Mexico/Whitmire Pass
Whitmire Pass, New Mexico
Mountain pass in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, at 4,976 ft* WHAT...East winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph expected. * WHERE...New Mexico Bootheel. * WHEN...From 9 PM this evening to midnight MDT Friday Night. * IMPACTS...Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines. Widespread power outages are expected. Travel will be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
People are urged to secure loose objects that could be blown around or damaged by the wind.
60°
63°/48°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 60°·Strong breeze 26 mph ESE
Alert. A High Wind Warning is in force for Whitmire Pass until 12 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Whitmire Pass is 60° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the east-southeast at 26 mph, gusting to 41 mph.
Today and tonight. 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, very high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 77°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. Rain is possible Wednesday (31%) and Thursday (34%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 27 mph.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:41 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 11:01 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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
15Air quality
36%Humidity
13%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
60feels60
26mph
Today
Oct 16
6348
32mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
6041
27mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
6943
13%
17mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7449
23%
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7752
29%
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7653
31%
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7353
34%
UV 7
60°
63°48°
60°41°
69°43°
74°49°
77°52°
76°53°
73°53°
As of 12:00 AM in Whitmire Pass, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at Whitmire Pass
Index 15, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Douglas (AZ), 62 miles off.
15Good
- Coarse particles (PM10)15Good-
The days ahead
Highest 101, unhealthy for sensitive groups, today, led by coarse particles. An air quality alert is called for today. Yesterday measured 7, good.
GoodModerateSensitive groups
- 7YesterdayOct 14
- 101TodayOct 16Alert
- 33SatOct 17
- 18SunOct 18
- 18MonOct 19
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Whitmire Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 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 Whitmire Pass, the next 43 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
- 4,976 ft
- County
- Hidalgo County
- State
- New Mexico
- Latitude
- 31.7998° N
- Longitude
- 108.7014° W
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Whitmire Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 11.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
I-10 Eb MP 7NM008
Beside a road/34.0 mi away/4,160 ft/816 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
LordsburgLSB
At an airfield/36.9 mi away/4,274 ft/702 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Animas 0.8 ENM-HD-38
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.8 mi away/4,410 ft/566 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Antelope WellsANWN5
At a cooperative observer's station/33.7 mi away/4,665 ft/311 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in New Mexico
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Whitmire Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Animascommunity, 12 mi
- Playascommunity, 13 mi
- Windmillcommunity, 13 mi
- Rodeocommunity, 19 mi
- Cotton Citycommunity, 23 mi
- Hachitacommunity, 24 mi
- Lordsburgcity, 38 mi
- Glen Acrescommunity, 40 mi
- White Signalcommunity, 58 mi
- Sunshinecommunity, 59 mi
- Redrockcommunity, 62 mi
- Pulpotio Bareascommunity, 62 mi
Mountain passes near Whitmire Pass
- Broken Jug Pass15 mi
- Granite Pass15 mi
- Antelope Pass15 mi
- Burro Pass16 mi
- Antelope Pass17 mi
- Cowboy Pass23 mi
- San Luis Pass28 mi
- Guadalupe Pass35 mi