Mescalero RAWSMSCN5
A remote fire weather station/1.1 mi away/6,188 ft/286 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Bent
Alert. A High Wind Warning is in force for Bent until 12 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 18 degrees cooler: a high of 53° after 71° today.
Now. Bent is 51° and mostly clear at 9 PM. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the east-northeast at 18 mph, gusting to 43 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 34° by 8 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 53°. Rain is likely Wednesday (51%). Rain is possible Tuesday (45%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 25 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 29°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and sets at 9:51 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. 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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 9:00 PM in Bent, New Mexico.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 8 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 Bent, New MexicoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Bent, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Mescalero RAWSMSCN5
A remote fire weather station/1.1 mi away/6,188 ft/286 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station NB0X-13NB0X-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/22.5 mi away/6,986 ft/1,084 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/23.4 mi away/4,196 ft/1,706 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Mescalero 1.8 ENM-OT-83
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.8 mi away/6,616 ft/714 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Mountain ParkMTPN5
At a cooperative observer's station/14.0 mi away/6,854 ft/952 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 23.4 mi from Bent, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 9:15 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
A few clouds at 300 ft; visibility 6 mi.
66.2 F with a dew point of 35.6 F, 32 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 6,900 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 300 ft.
From the east (90 degrees) at 23 mph, gusting 38 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 40 mph.
The full report of Alamogordo-White, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.