Fall Weather at Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport United States

Daily high temperatures decrease by 30°F, from 87°F to 58°F, rarely falling below 47°F or exceeding 93°F.

Daily low temperatures decrease by 29°F, from 64°F to 35°F, rarely falling below 26°F or exceeding 69°F.

For reference, on June 28, the hottest day of the year, temperatures at Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport typically range from 68°F to 94°F, while on December 30, the coldest day of the year, they range from 31°F to 53°F.

The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average fall temperatures. 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.

Shahr-e Bābak, Iran (7,919 miles away) and Quetta, Pakistan (8,048 miles) are the far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar to Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport (view comparison).

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The fall at Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport experiences essentially constant cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy remaining about 25% throughout the season. The lowest chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 19% on October 3.

The clearest day of the fall is October 3, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 81% of the time.

For reference, on August 5, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 41%, while on October 3, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 81%.

A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. At Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport, the chance of a wet day over the course of the fall is very rapidly decreasing, starting the season at 26% and ending it at 8%.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 36% on August 10, and its lowest chance is 3% on April 9.

Rainfall

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

The average sliding 31-day rainfall during the fall at Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport is decreasing, starting the season at 1.5 inches, when it rarely exceeds 2.8 inches or falls below 0.5 inches, and ending the season at 0.5 inches, when it rarely exceeds 1.4 inches.

Over the course of the fall at Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport, the length of the day is very rapidly decreasing. From the start to the end of the season, the length of the day decreases by 2 hours, 42 minutes, implying an average daily decrease of 1 minute, 48 seconds, and weekly decrease of 12 minutes, 37 seconds.

The shortest day of the fall is November 30, with 10 hours, 7 minutes of daylight and the longest day is September 1, with 12 hours, 50 minutes of daylight.

The latest sunrise of the fall at Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport is 7:28 AM on November 2 and the earliest sunrise is 59 minutes earlier at 6:29 AM on November 3.

The latest sunset is 7:33 PM on September 1 and the earliest sunset is 2 hours, 32 minutes earlier at 5:01 PM on November 30.

Daylight saving time (DST) starts at 1:00 AM on November 3, 2024, shifting sunrise and sunset to be an hour later.

For reference, on June 20, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 6:00 AM and sets 14 hours, 21 minutes later, at 8:21 PM, while on December 21, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 7:08 AM and sets 9 hours, 57 minutes later, at 5:06 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 the fall of 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 Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport is essentially constant during the fall, remaining around 0% throughout.

For reference, on July 25, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% 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 Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport is increasing during the fall, increasing from 6.4 miles per hour to 7.9 miles per hour over the course of the season.

For reference, on April 10, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 10.9 miles per hour, while on August 14, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 6.0 miles per hour.

The highest daily average wind speed during the fall is 8.0 miles per hour on November 15.

The wind direction at Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport during the fall is predominantly out of the south from September 1 to October 13 and the west from October 13 to November 30.

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 Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport typically lasts for 7.8 months (237 days), from around March 18 to around November 11, rarely starting before February 23 or after April 7, and rarely ending before October 23 or after November 27.

During the fall at Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport, the chance that a given day is within the growing season is very rapidly decreasing falling from 100% to 6% over the course of the season.

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 Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport are very rapidly increasing during the fall, increasing by 1,156°F, from 3,884°F to 5,040°F, over the course of the season.

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 Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport is very rapidly decreasing during the fall, falling by 2.6 kWh, from 6.2 kWh to 3.6 kWh, over the course of the season.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport are 33.238 deg latitude, -107.270 deg longitude, and 4,826 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport contains only modest variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 351 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 4,794 feet. Within 10 miles contains only modest variations in elevation (1,762 feet). Within 50 miles contains very significant variations in elevation (6,434 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Truth or Consequences Municipal Airport is covered by shrubs (100%), within 10 miles by shrubs (94%), and within 50 miles by shrubs (80%) and trees (16%).