At an airfield/12.9 mi away/6,470 ft/601 ft below here
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Weather/New Mexico/Black Hat
Now. Black Hat is 50° and clear at 12 PM. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the east at 16 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 57° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 31° 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. The warmest day ahead is Monday, near 62°, and the coolest Thursday, near 58°. Rain or snow is likely Wednesday (57%) and Thursday (76%). Rain is possible Sunday (36%), Monday (33%) and Tuesday (47%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 30°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:39 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:50 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 PM in Black Hat, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 PM from its reporting area, Chaco Culture National Historical Park (NM), 65 miles off.
Yesterday measured 38, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 6 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.30 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 11 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 6 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 5 instruments nearest Black Hat, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/12.9 mi away/6,470 ft/601 ft below here
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Washington Pass RAWSWPSN5
A remote fire weather station/31.2 mi away/9,278 ft/2,207 ft above here
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Citizen station GW7542GW7542
In a volunteer observer's own ground/39.6 mi away/6,437 ft/634 ft below here
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measured daily2 instruments
Mexican Springs 13.3 SW (Black Hat)NM-MK-4
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.4 mi away/7,023 ft/48 ft below here
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At a cooperative observer's station/14.0 mi away/6,506 ft/565 ft below here
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Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.9 mi from Black Hat, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 11:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
55.0 F with a dew point of 25.0 F, 31 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 6,800 ft up.
From the east northeast (70 degrees) at 24 mph, gusting 35 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 39 mph.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Gallup Sand And Gravel (GLPN5), 14.0 miles from here, read 16 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.