Areal Flood Advisory — Chaves County, NM 9:45 PM Areal Flood Watch 7:00 AM

Chaves County, New Mexico, United States

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74°F
Feels like 71°
Mostly Cloudy
▲ 81°  /  ▼ 62°
Wind
12 mph ESE
Humidity
62%
Dew Point
61°
Pressure
26.34 inHg
Visibility
10 mi
UV Index
0.0
Cloud Cover
72%
Sunrise
6:45 AM
Sunset
6:54 PM
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WeatherAI™ Analysis

WeatherAI Analysis: Chaves County is currently mostly cloudy at 74°F. Precipitation is likely — peak probability 90% around 10 PM. Atmospheric instability is elevated (CAPE up to 737 J/kg) — isolated convective development possible. Sunrise: 6:45AM · Sunset: 6:54PM.

43 AQI · Good Dominant: O3 Air Quality
Hourly Forecast · Next 24 Hours
Now
74°
39%
8 PM
74°
71%
9 PM
71°
87%
10 PM
70°
90%
11 PM
69°
90%
12 AM
68°
82%
1 AM
66°
81%
2 AM
65°
81%
3 AM
65°
67%
4 AM
65°
53%
5 AM
62°
60%
6 AM
62°
60%
7 AM
63°
47%
8 AM
64°
57%
9 AM
64°
60%
10 AM
65°
65%
11 AM
66°
65%
12 PM
69°
65%
1 PM
74°
80%
2 PM
77°
80%
3 PM
76°
85%
4 PM
76°
85%
5 PM
72°
81%
6 PM
72°
82%
7-Day Forecast
Tonight
81° 62°
Heavy Rain, 90% chance.
Wed
82° 62°
Overcast with a 81% chance of rain.
Thu
78° 62°
Overcast with a 73% chance of rain.
Fri
84° 61°
Mostly Cloudy with a 74% chance of rain.
Sat
87° 67°
Clear.
Sun
88° 68°
Clear.
Mon
87° 69°
Rain, 71% chance.
TimeTempConditionsPrecipWindHumidity
Now 74° Mostly Cloudy 39% 12 mph ESE 62%
8 PM 74° Overcast 71% 10 mph ESE 69%
9 PM 71° Heavy Rain 87% 8 mph ESE 72%
10 PM 70° Heavy Rain 90% 6 mph ESE 74%
11 PM 69° Overcast 90% 5 mph ESE 75%
12 AM 68° Rain 82% 6 mph E 81%
1 AM 66° Thunderstorm 81% 6 mph E 85%
2 AM 65° Rain 81% 5 mph ESE 88%
3 AM 65° Mostly Cloudy 67% 5 mph ESE 90%
4 AM 65° Mostly Cloudy 53% 5 mph ESE 90%
5 AM 62° Overcast 60% 4 mph E 89%
6 AM 62° Overcast 60% 5 mph ESE 88%
7 AM 63° Overcast 47% 6 mph SE 86%
8 AM 64° Overcast 57% 8 mph SSE 83%
9 AM 64° Overcast 60% 9 mph SSE 80%
10 AM 65° Overcast 65% 10 mph SSE 77%
11 AM 66° Overcast 65% 11 mph SSE 73%
12 PM 69° Mostly Cloudy 65% 12 mph SSE 64%
1 PM 74° Overcast 80% 13 mph SSE 63%
2 PM 77° Overcast 80% 14 mph S 62%
3 PM 76° Overcast 85% 14 mph S 62%
4 PM 76° Overcast 85% 13 mph SSE 64%
5 PM 72° Rain 81% 12 mph SSE 66%
6 PM 72° Overcast 82% 11 mph SSE 69%
15-Day Forecast
Today
9/22
Heavy Rain
90%
62°
81°
Wed
9/23
Overcast
81%
62°
82°
Thu
9/24
Overcast
73%
62°
78°
Fri
9/25
Mostly Cloudy
74%
61°
84°
Sat
9/26
Clear
17%
67°
87°
Sun
9/27
Clear
19%
68°
88°
Mon
9/28
Rain
71%
69°
87°
Tue
9/29
Drizzle
53%
63°
81°
Wed
9/30
Clear
18%
56°
80°
Thu
10/1
Clear
44%
64°
81°
Fri
10/2
Drizzle
60%
65°
82°
Sat
10/3
Drizzle
60%
63°
80°
Sun
10/4
Drizzle
60%
61°
77°
Mon
10/5
Drizzle
60%
61°
78°
Tue
10/6
Clear
60%
62°
81°
43
Good
U.S. Air Quality Index · Dominant: O3
50 100 150 200

Air quality is satisfactory and poses little or no health risk.

Pollutant Breakdown · Today
PM2.5
Fine particulate matter
19 AQI 3.6 µg/m³
O3
Ground-level ozone
Dominant
43 AQI 46 ppb
3-Day Outlook
DayAQICategoryO₃PM2.5
Today 43 Good 43 19
Thu 42 Good 42 18
Fri 41 Good 41 27
About the Air Quality Index
0–50 Good
51–100 Moderate
101–150 Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups
151–200 Unhealthy
201–300 Very Unhealthy
301–500 Hazardous

The U.S. AQI runs 0–500. The overall value equals the highest individual pollutant sub-index, and the dominant pollutant is the one driving it. PM2.5 (fine particles) is reported in µg/m³ and ozone (O3) in ppb. Forecast source: NWS NAQFC.

1000850700500400300250200150100 -40-30-20-10010203040 0.41247101624 LCLLFCEL0°C Temperature (°C) Pressure (hPa)
Temp Dewpoint Parcel (SB) CAPE CIN Dry adiabat Moist adiabat Mixing ratio
RAP
Valid Tue Sep 22, 23:00'Z' · F0 · 130 (13 km CONUS/NA)
Hodograph · kt
10 20 30 40 50 60 SM
0–1 1–3 3–6 6–9 km
Instability
SBCAPE448 J/kg
MLCAPE722 J/kg
MUCAPE1054 J/kg
SBCIN-23 J/kg
MLCIN-16 J/kg
Lifted Index-2.1
Kinematics
0–6 km Shear23 kt
0–1 km Shear6 kt
Eff. Shear21 kt
0–1 km SRH12
0–3 km SRH53
Eff. SRH53
Storm Motion254° @ 8 kt
0–1 km EHI0.0
Composite Parameters
Sig. Tornado0.0
STP (eff)0.0
Supercell0.6
K-Index40.2
Thermo & Levels
PWAT1.47 in
0–3 km LR6.9 °C/km
700–500 LR5.4 °C/km
Total Totals48.0
LCL800 hPa
LFC742 hPa
EL222 hPa
Freezing Lvl11,614 ft