El Paso, TX weather
Right now 64°, mostly clear · tonight 64°, partly cloudy · seven days from the National Weather Service
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Right now · 64° · mostly clear · calm · 1° warmer than this time yesterday · at El Paso, 3:55 AM
Today, in the Weather Service’s words
Partly cloudy, with a low around 64. East wind around 3 mph.
Seven days
Winter in El Paso
El Paso averages 3 inches of snow a year, according to NOAA’s 1991-2020 climate normals - a rare snow place. Snow is unusual here. An inch is enough to close schools because almost nothing is set up to clear it.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 3 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 1 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over El Paso
The nearest radiosonde launch is Santa Teresa, about 15 miles away. A weather balloon goes up twice a day and measures temperature, humidity and wind all the way through the atmosphere - which is what forecasters actually read to judge whether storms will fire, and how a surface forecast was arrived at.
Sources: National Weather Service forecast and hourly grid for El Paso (api.weather.gov), updated Tue, 3:26 AM UTC. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations. Snowfall normals from NOAA’s 1991-2020 US Climate Normals. County lines from the US Census Bureau.