March Weather at Tucumcari Municipal Airport United States

Daily high temperatures increase by 8°F, from 63°F to 71°F, rarely falling below 48°F or exceeding 82°F.

Daily low temperatures increase by 7°F, from 33°F to 40°F, rarely falling below 22°F or exceeding 50°F.

For reference, on July 4, the hottest day of the year, temperatures at Tucumcari Municipal Airport typically range from 67°F to 94°F, while on January 5, the coldest day of the year, they range from 26°F to 52°F.

The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average temperatures for the quarter of the year centered on March. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.

Isfahan, Iran (7,492 miles away) is the far-away foreign place with temperatures most similar to Tucumcari Municipal Airport (view comparison).

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The month of March at Tucumcari Municipal Airport experiences gradually decreasing cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy decreasing from 37% to 32%.

The clearest day of the month is March 31, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 68% of the time.

For reference, on February 15, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 38%, while on October 4, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 78%.

A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. At Tucumcari Municipal Airport, the chance of a wet day over the course of March is gradually increasing, starting the month at 7% and ending it at 9%.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 35% on August 10, and its lowest chance is 4% on January 11.

Over the course of March at Tucumcari Municipal Airport, the chance of a day with only rain increases from 5% to 8%, the chance of a day with mixed snow and rain remains an essentially constant 1% throughout, and the chance of a day with only snow remains an essentially constant 1% throughout.

Rainfall

To show variation within the month and not just the monthly total, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.

The average sliding 31-day rainfall during March at Tucumcari Municipal Airport is gradually increasing, starting the month at 0.4 inches, when it rarely exceeds 1.1 inches, and ending the month at 0.6 inches, when it rarely exceeds 1.6 inches.

Over the course of March at Tucumcari Municipal Airport, the length of the day is rapidly increasing. From the start to the end of the month, the length of the day increases by 1 hour, 6 minutes, implying an average daily increase of 2 minutes, 13 seconds, and weekly increase of 15 minutes, 31 seconds.

The shortest day of the month is March 1, with 11 hours, 27 minutes of daylight and the longest day is March 31, with 12 hours, 34 minutes of daylight.

The earliest sunrise of the month at Tucumcari Municipal Airport is 6:12 AM on March 9 and the latest sunrise is 59 minutes later at 7:11 AM on March 10.

The earliest sunset is 5:50 PM on March 1 and the latest sunset is 1 hour, 25 minutes later at 7:15 PM on March 31.

Daylight saving time (DST) ends at 3:00 AM on March 10, 2024, shifting sunrise and sunset to be an hour earlier.

For reference, on June 20, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 5:40 AM and sets 14 hours, 32 minutes later, at 8:12 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 6:59 AM and sets 9 hours, 47 minutes later, at 4:46 PM.

The figure below presents a compact representation of the sun's elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon) and azimuth (its compass bearing) for every hour of every day in the reporting period. The horizontal axis is the day of the year and the vertical axis is the hour of the day. For a given day and hour of that day, the background color indicates the azimuth of the sun at that moment. The black isolines are contours of constant solar elevation.

The figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for March 2024. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon. The vertical gray bars (new Moons) and blue bars (full Moons) indicate key Moon phases. The label associated with each bar indicates the date and time that the phase is obtained, and the companion time labels indicate the rise and set times of the Moon for the nearest time interval in which the moon is above the horizon.

We base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night.

The chance that a given day will be muggy at Tucumcari Municipal Airport is essentially constant during March, remaining around 0% throughout.

For reference, on August 10, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 3% of the time, while on January 1, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time.

This section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages.

The average hourly wind speed at Tucumcari Municipal Airport is gradually increasing during March, increasing from 11.5 miles per hour to 12.4 miles per hour over the course of the month.

For reference, on April 10, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 12.4 miles per hour, while on August 10, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 9.0 miles per hour.

The hourly average wind direction at Tucumcari Municipal Airport throughout March is predominantly from the west, with a peak proportion of 42% on March 1.

Definitions of the growing season vary throughout the world, but for the purposes of this report, we define it as the longest continuous period of non-freezing temperatures (≥ 32°F) in the year (the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere, or from July 1 until June 30 in the Southern Hemisphere).

The growing season at Tucumcari Municipal Airport typically lasts for 6.7 months (205 days), from around April 7 to around October 29, rarely starting before March 19 or after April 26, and rarely ending before October 10 or after November 16.

The month of March at Tucumcari Municipal Airport is more likely than not fully outside of the growing season, with the chance that a given day is in the growing season rapidly increasing from 1% to 32% over the course of the month.

Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature, discarding any excess above a maximum temperature. In this report, we use a base of 50°F and a cap of 86°F.

The average accumulated growing degree days at Tucumcari Municipal Airport are gradually increasing during March, increasing by 164°F, from 122°F to 286°F, over the course of the month.

This section discusses the total daily incident shortwave solar energy reaching the surface of the ground over a wide area, taking full account of seasonal variations in the length of the day, the elevation of the Sun above the horizon, and absorption by clouds and other atmospheric constituents. Shortwave radiation includes visible light and ultraviolet radiation.

The average daily incident shortwave solar energy at Tucumcari Municipal Airport is increasing during March, rising by 1.4 kWh, from 5.1 kWh to 6.5 kWh, over the course of the month.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Tucumcari Municipal Airport are 35.183 deg latitude, -103.603 deg longitude, and 4,042 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Tucumcari Municipal Airport contains only modest variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 230 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 4,044 feet. Within 10 miles contains only modest variations in elevation (1,184 feet). Within 50 miles contains very significant variations in elevation (2,411 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Tucumcari Municipal Airport is covered by cropland (52%) and grassland (41%), within 10 miles by grassland (60%) and shrubs (26%), and within 50 miles by grassland (73%) and shrubs (21%).