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A snow pillow on a mountain/0.5 mi away/9,350 ft/238 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/New Mexico/Palo Flechado Pass
Palo Flechado Pass, New Mexico
Mountain pass in Taos County, New Mexico, at 9,112 ft27°
51°/17°
Clear·
Feels like 18°·Gentle breeze 8 mph NNE
Now. Palo Flechado Pass is 27° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 18°. The dew point is 23°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 49° by 1 PM. Tonight falls to about 24° by 4 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. 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. Highs stay close to 57° all week. Rain is likely Wednesday (53%) and Thursday (60%). Rain is possible Tuesday (42%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 18°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:32 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 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
0Air quality
92%Humidity
1%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
27feels18
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5117
13mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5818
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
5822
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
5623
16%
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
5525
42%
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
5728
53%
Thu
Oct 22
5530
60%
27°
51°17°
58°18°
58°22°
56°23°
55°25°
57°28°
55°30°
As of 12:00 AM in Palo Flechado Pass, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at Palo Flechado Pass
Index 0, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Taos (NM), 14 miles off.
0Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)0Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 10, good.
GoodModerate
- 10YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Palo Flechado Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 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 Palo Flechado Pass, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 9 miles Fri 4 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 9,112 ft
- County
- Taos County
- State
- New Mexico
- Latitude
- 36.4145° N
- Longitude
- 105.3364° W
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Palo Flechado Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Angel FireAXX
At an airfield/2.6 mi away/8,379 ft/733 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Angel Fire - InactAGFN5
At a cooperative observer's station/3.1 mi away/8,638 ft/474 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Taos 11.3 ESENM-TS-25
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.2 mi away/8,443 ft/669 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in New Mexico
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Palo Flechado Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Angel Fireski area, 3 mi
- Angel Firevillage, 4 mi
- Eagle Nestvillage, 10 mi
- Taos Pueblocommunity, 12 mi
- Taos Ski Valleyvillage, 13 mi
- Taostown, 13 mi
- Taos Ski Valleysurveyed ski area, 14 mi
- Ranchos de Taoscommunity, 15 mi
- Talpacommunity, 15 mi
- Arroyo Secocommunity, 16 mi
- Ute Parkcommunity, 16 mi
- Arroyo Hondocommunity, 20 mi
Mountain passes near Palo Flechado Pass
- Apache Pass2 mi
- Osha Pass5 mi
- Quintana Pass8 mi
- Chosa Pass8 mi
- Comanche Pass13 mi
- Webster Pass14 mi
- Fowler Pass15 mi
- Shaefers Pass16 mi