A snow pillow on a mountain/2.1 mi away/9,850 ft/3 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/New Mexico/Red River Pass
Red River Pass, New Mexico
Mountain pass in Taos County, New Mexico, at 9,853 ft27°
48°/20°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 19°·Gentle breeze 8 mph NNE
Now. Red River Pass is 27° and mostly clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 19°. The dew point is 24°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 48° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 24° by 6 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 55° all week. Rain is likely Thursday (57%). Rain is possible Tuesday (33%) and Wednesday (46%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 21°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:31 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.
0UV Low
0Air quality
83%Humidity
13%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
27feels19
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
4820
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5521
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
5626
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
5430
14%
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
5430
33%
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
5533
46%
Thu
Oct 22
5334
57%
27°
48°20°
55°21°
56°26°
54°30°
54°30°
55°33°
53°34°
As of 12:00 AM in Red River Pass, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at Red River Pass
Index 0, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Taos (NM), 24 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 Red River 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 Red River Pass, the next 43 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
- 9,853 ft
- County
- Taos County
- State
- New Mexico
- Latitude
- 36.6800° N
- Longitude
- 105.3703° W
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Red River Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.1 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
QuestaN24
At an airfield/15.2 mi away/7,654 ft/2,199 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Eagle NestEGNN5
At a cooperative observer's station/10.4 mi away/8,278 ft/1,575 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Questa 4.5 SSWNM-TS-40
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.7 mi away/7,935 ft/1,918 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Eagle Nest (EGNN5), 10.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 16:00. measured daily
Elsewhere in New Mexico
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Red River Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Red Rivertown, 3 mi
- Red Riverski area, 3 mi
- Taos Ski Valleyvillage, 7 mi
- Taos Ski Valleysurveyed ski area, 7 mi
- Eagle Nestvillage, 11 mi
- Questavillage, 12 mi
- Arroyo Secocommunity, 16 mi
- San Cristobalcommunity, 16 mi
- Ute Parkcommunity, 17 mi
- Arroyo Hondocommunity, 19 mi
- Taos Pueblocommunity, 20 mi
- Angel Fireski area, 20 mi
Mountain passes near Red River Pass
- Bobcat Pass2 mi
- Costilla Pass6 mi
- Palo Flechado Pass18 mi
- Ute Park Pass20 mi
- Apache Pass21 mi
- Comanche Pass21 mi
- Osha Pass24 mi
- Shaefers Pass24 mi