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A snow pillow on a mountain/8.4 mi away/10,180 ft/1,375 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Mountain passes/New Mexico/Shaefers Pass
Shaefers Pass, New Mexico
Mountain pass in Colfax County, New Mexico, at 8,805 ft29°
51°/24°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 22°·Light breeze 7 mph NNE
Coming up. Tomorrow is 8 degrees warmer: a high of 59° after 51° today.
Now. Shaefers Pass is 29° and mostly clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 22°. The dew point is 23°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 7 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 50° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 28° 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 59° all week. Rain is likely Thursday (57%). Rain is possible Tuesday (32%) and Wednesday (46%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 24°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 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 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
0Air quality
92%Humidity
19%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
29feels22
now, mostly clear
Today
Oct 16
5124
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
5924
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6029
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
5832
14%
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
5733
32%
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
5935
46%
Thu
Oct 22
5737
57%
29°
51°24°
59°24°
60°29°
58°32°
57°33°
59°35°
57°37°
As of 12:00 AM in Shaefers Pass, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at Shaefers Pass
Index 0, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Taos (NM), 30 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 Shaefers Pass
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 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 Shaefers Pass, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 4 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 4 miles Fri 6 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
Weather instrument stations by state
Mountain pass
- Height
- 8,805 ft
- County
- Colfax County
- State
- New Mexico
- Latitude
- 36.4503° N
- Longitude
- 105.0461° W
What is measuring near here
The 4 instruments nearest Shaefers Pass, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.7 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Angel FireAXX
At an airfield/13.7 mi away/8,379 ft/426 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
CimarronCPSN5
At a cooperative observer's station/5.7 mi away/6,588 ft/2,217 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Cimarron 0.5 NENM-CL-22
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.0 mi away/6,497 ft/2,308 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 Shaefers Pass
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Ute Parkcommunity, 8 mi
- Cimarronvillage, 8 mi
- Eagle Nestvillage, 14 mi
- Angel Fireski area, 14 mi
- Angel Firevillage, 15 mi
- Taos Ski Valleyvillage, 24 mi
- Taos Ski Valleysurveyed ski area, 25 mi
- Springertown, 26 mi
- Red Rivertown, 27 mi
- Red Riverski area, 27 mi
- Taos Pueblocommunity, 28 mi
- Maxwellvillage, 29 mi
Mountain passes near Shaefers Pass
- Stone Wall Pass3 mi
- Fowler Pass4 mi
- Comanche Pass4 mi
- Webster Pass5 mi
- Ute Park Pass5 mi
- Apache Pass16 mi
- Palo Flechado Pass16 mi
- Osha Pass17 mi