Holloman AFBHMN
At an airfield/13.5 mi away/4,094 ft/133 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Parks/New Mexico/White Sands National Park
White Sands National Park, New Mexico
National Park in Otero County, New Mexico69°
78°/57°
Partly cloudy·
Feels like 69°·Light air 3 mph ESE
Now. White Sands National Park is 69° and partly cloudy at 8 PM. The dew point is 51°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light air from the east-southeast at 3 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 57° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. Highs stay close to 81° all week. The days ahead look dry.
The sky now. The Moon is a waning crescent, 24% lit, and rises at 2:53 AM after midnight. The next new Moon is Saturday, Oct 10. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 44 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
42Air quality
46%Humidity
42%Cloud
Now
8:00 PM
69feels69
now, partly cloudy
Today
Oct 5
7857
UV 9
Tue
Oct 6
8057
UV 9
Wed
Oct 7
8258
UV 9
Thu
Oct 8
8159
UV 9
Fri
Oct 9
8058
UV 9
Sat
Oct 10
8058
UV 8
Sun
Oct 11
8261
UV 8
69°
78°57°
80°57°
82°58°
81°59°
80°58°
80°58°
82°61°
As of 8:00 PM in White Sands National Park, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at White Sands National Park
Index 42, good, led by ozone. Read at 7 PM from its reporting area, Las Cruces (NM), 42 miles off.
42Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good-
- Ozone42Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 41, good.
GoodModerate
- 41YesterdayOct 4
Smoke, the next 41 hours
No smoke near the ground through Wed 12 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at White Sands National Park
None in the last 3 days, to Mon 6 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 White Sands National Park, the next 41 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Wed 12 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National Park
- Area
- 232 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 3,961 ft
- County
- Otero County
- State
- New Mexico
- Latitude
- 32.7786° N
- Longitude
- 106.3244° W
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest White Sands National Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 8.6 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
San Andres Mountains RAWSSNDN5
A remote fire weather station/18.0 mi away/6,145 ft/2,184 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
In a volunteer observer's own ground/20.1 mi away/4,048 ft/87 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Jornada Exp RangeS2168
At a soil climate station/26.7 mi away/4,360 ft/399 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Las Cruces 20 N03074
At a climate reference station/26.8 mi away/4,327 ft/366 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
National MonumentWSDN5
At a cooperative observer's station/8.6 mi away/4,002 ft/41 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
WorkingPens-Alamogordo 5.7 WSWNM-OT-116
In a volunteer observer's own ground/17.0 mi away/4,050 ft/89 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in New Mexico
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near White Sands National Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Holloman AFBcommunity, 15 mi
- Boles Acrescommunity, 20 mi
- Alamogordocity, 24 mi
- La Luzcommunity, 26 mi
- Tularosavillage, 27 mi
- White Sandscommunity, 29 mi
- Organcommunity, 29 mi
- High Rollscommunity, 31 mi
- Orograndecommunity, 31 mi
- Butterfield Parkcommunity, 32 mi
- Cloudcroftvillage, 36 mi
- Timberoncommunity, 38 mi