Sapello River Above Sapello07218525
At a river or reservoir gauge/18.8 mi away/7,078 ft/291 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Parks/New Mexico/Fort Union National Monument
Fort Union National Monument, New Mexico
National Monument in Mora County, New Mexico61°
64°/29°
Clear·
Feels like 61°·Gentle breeze 10 mph S
Now. Fort Union National Monument is 61° and clear at 1 PM. The dew point is 11°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the south at 10 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 62° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 37° by 3 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 70°, and the coolest Friday, near 63°. Rain is likely Thursday (50%) and Friday (67%). Rain is possible Wednesday (42%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 43% lit, and sets at 11:30 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 15 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
7UV High
9Air quality
14%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
1:00 PM
61feels61
UV 7
Today
Oct 17
6429
13mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6936
15mph
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6841
10%
15mph
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
6944
18%
15mph
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7046
42%
Thu
Oct 22
6749
50%
12mph
Fri
Oct 23
6349
67%
14mph
UV 6
61°
64°29°
69°36°
68°41°
69°44°
70°46°
67°49°
63°49°
As of 1:00 PM in Fort Union National Monument, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at Fort Union National Monument
Index 9, good, led by fine particles. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Taos (NM), 46 miles off.
9Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)9Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 7, good.
GoodModerate
- 7YesterdayOct 16
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Mon 6 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Fort Union National Monument
None in the last 3 days, to Sat 12 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 Fort Union National Monument, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Mon 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Park
- Designation
- National Monument
- Area
- 1.11 sq mi
- Height at its point
- 6,787 ft
- County
- Mora County
- State
- New Mexico
- Latitude
- 35.9074° N
- Longitude
- 105.0120° W
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Fort Union National Monument, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 11.6 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/19.0 mi away/6,873 ft/86 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Wagon Mound 22.7 WNM-MR-8
In a volunteer observer's own ground/11.6 mi away/7,510 ft/723 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OcateOCTN5
At a cooperative observer's station/19.2 mi away/7,249 ft/462 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
-
Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in New Mexico
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Fort Union National Monument
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Watrouscommunity, 8 mi
- Wagon Moundvillage, 19 mi
- Moracommunity, 19 mi
- Las Vegascity, 24 mi
- Tecolotecommunity, 34 mi
- Sipapuski area, 35 mi
- Angel Firevillage, 36 mi
- Angel Fireski area, 37 mi
- Springertown, 39 mi
- Vaditocommunity, 42 mi
- Cimarronvillage, 42 mi
- Peñascocommunity, 42 mi