Sandia Lakes RAWSSNLN5
A remote fire weather station/11.8 mi away/5,020 ft/72 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Algodones
High Wind Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A High Wind Warning is in force for Algodones until 9 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Algodones is 54° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the east at 13 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 78): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 66°. Rain is likely Wednesday (52%). Rain is possible Tuesday (42%). Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 35°.
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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Algodones, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 78, moderate, led by coarse particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Albuquerque (NM), 23 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.02 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 9 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Algodones, New MexicoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Algodones, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.0 miles away.
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Sandia Lakes RAWSSNLN5
A remote fire weather station/11.8 mi away/5,020 ft/72 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW2457GW2457
In a volunteer observer's own ground/13.0 mi away/5,946 ft/854 ft above here
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I-25 at La BajadaNM011
Beside a road/17.6 mi away/5,699 ft/607 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Albuquerque/Double Eagle Ii AptAEG
At an airfield/23.7 mi away/5,837 ft/745 ft above here
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Los Alamos 13 W03062
At a climate reference station/32.8 mi away/8,716 ft/3,624 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Placitas 1.9 WNWNM-SN-182
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.0 mi away/5,374 ft/282 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a dam/3.4 mi away/5,398 ft/306 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 23.7 mi from Algodones, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:50 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
49.6 F with a dew point of 30.7 F, 48 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,300 ft up.
From the southeast (140 degrees) at 15 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Bernalillo - Jemez Dam (BRNN5), 3.4 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.