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At a river or reservoir gauge/3.1 mi away/4,111 ft/1,179 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/Texas/Smugglers Pass
Smugglers Pass, Texas
Mountain pass in El Paso County, Texas, at 5,290 ftHigh 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°
61°/49°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 56°·Strong breeze 31 mph ENE
Alert. A High Wind Warning is in force for Smugglers Pass 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. Smugglers Pass is 56° and partly cloudy at 1 AM. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the east-northeast at 31 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is hazardous (index 596): everyone should stay indoors and keep activity low.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. 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
596Air quality
42%Humidity
39%Cloud
Now
1:00 AM
56feels56
31mph
Today
Oct 16
6149
33mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5940
15mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
6741
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
7450
10%
UV 8
Tue
Oct 20
7855
18%
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7857
40%
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7657
45%
UV 7
56°
61°49°
59°40°
67°41°
74°50°
78°55°
78°57°
76°57°
As of 1:00 AM in Smugglers Pass, Texas.
Air quality
The air at Smugglers Pass
Index 596, hazardous, led by coarse particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, El Paso (TX), 4 miles off.
596Hazardous
- Fine particles (PM2.5)152Unhealthy7.6 mi
- Ozone42Good33 ppb7.6 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)596Hazardous7.6 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide1Good1 ppb7.6 mi
The days ahead
Highest unhealthy for sensitive groups, today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 85, moderate.
GoodModerateSensitive groups
- 85YesterdayOct 15
- Unhealthy for sensitive groupsTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Smugglers Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 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 Smugglers Pass, the next 42 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
- 5,290 ft
- County
- El Paso County
- State
- Texas
- Latitude
- 31.8795° N
- Longitude
- 106.4992° W
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Smugglers Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.8 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Citizen station FW5426FW5426
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.6 mi away/3,943 ft/1,347 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Fort BlissBIF
At an airfield/7.3 mi away/3,947 ft/1,343 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily1 instrument
El Paso 5.1 WTX-EP-144
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.8 mi away/4,427 ft/863 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in Texas
20 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Smugglers Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Canutillocommunity, 6 mi
- Prado Verdecommunity, 7 mi
- Fort Blisscommunity, 7 mi
- Westwaycommunity, 7 mi
- Vintonvillage, 8 mi
- El Pasocity, 8 mi
- Anthonytown, 10 mi
- Homestead Meadows Northcommunity, 19 mi
- Homestead Meadows Southcommunity, 20 mi
- Socorrocity, 21 mi
- Sparkscommunity, 21 mi
- Horizon Citycity, 23 mi
Mountain passes near Smugglers Pass
- Guadalupe Pass98 mi
- Echo Pass114 mi
- Vieja Pass142 mi
- San Antonio Pass158 mi
- Wild Rose Pass179 mi
- Paisano Pass194 mi
- Panther Pass263 mi
- Dead Mans Pass349 mi