I-25 Raton PassNM013
Beside a road/0.2 mi away/7,825 ft/18 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Mountain passes/New Mexico/Raton Pass
Raton Pass, New Mexico
Mountain pass in Colfax County, New Mexico, at 7,807 ft* WHAT...North winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph. * WHERE...Johnson and Bartlett Mesas Including Raton Pass. * WHEN...Until midnight MDT tonight. * IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs may be blown down. Expect strong crosswinds on area roadways.
Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Use extra caution.
36°
52°/32°
Clear·
Feels like 27°·Moderate breeze 15 mph N
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Raton Pass until 12 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Raton Pass is 36° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 27°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 15 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 28° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Sunday, near 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 51°. The days ahead look dry. The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 28°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
0Air quality
79%Humidity
3%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
36feels27
15mph
Today
Oct 15
5232
25mph
UV 7
Fri
Oct 16
5128
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6326
13mph
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6733
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
6438
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
6639
12%
12mph
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
6742
22%
36°
52°32°
51°28°
63°26°
67°33°
64°38°
66°39°
67°42°
As of 11:00 PM in Raton Pass, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at Raton Pass
Index 0, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Taos (NM), 74 miles off.
0Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)0Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 10, good.
GoodModerate
- 10YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Raton Pass
None in the last 24 hours; 0.12 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.12in
3 days agoLast 24 hours 0%
Visibility
How far you can see at Raton Pass, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 7,807 ft
- County
- Colfax County
- State
- New Mexico
- Latitude
- 36.9911° N
- Longitude
- 104.4866° W
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Raton Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.2 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/17.3 mi away/6,348 ft/1,459 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
RatonRRTN5
At a cooperative observer's station/5.8 mi away/6,913 ft/894 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Raton 1.1 NNM-CL-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.7 mi away/6,690 ft/1,117 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
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 Raton Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
Mountain passes near Raton Pass
- Manco Burro Pass12 mi
- Trinchera Pass25 mi
- Ute Park Pass46 mi
- Costilla Pass48 mi
- Shaefers Pass49 mi
- Stone Wall Pass50 mi
- Comanche Pass50 mi
- Bobcat Pass51 mi