At an airfield/3.5 mi away/6,470 ft/386 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Catalpa Canyon
Now. Catalpa Canyon is 41° and clear at 1 AM. With the wind it feels like 36°. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-northeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 60° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 29° 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 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 65°, and the coolest Thursday, near 60°. Rain or snow is likely Wednesday (52%) and Thursday (64%). Rain is possible Tuesday (31%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:38 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:49 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 1:00 AM in Catalpa Canyon, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Chaco Culture National Historical Park (NM), 60 miles off.
Yesterday measured 50, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.18 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. 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 Catalpa Canyon, New MexicoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Catalpa Canyon, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.2 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/3.5 mi away/6,470 ft/386 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Zuni Buttes RAWSZNRN5
A remote fire weather station/27.1 mi away/6,683 ft/173 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW7542GW7542
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.6 mi away/6,437 ft/419 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
ThoreauS2233
At a soil climate station/31.7 mi away/7,065 ft/209 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Gallup 0.7 ENENM-MK-30
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.2 mi away/6,672 ft/184 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/2.6 mi away/6,506 ft/350 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 3.5 mi from Catalpa Canyon, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:53 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
41.0 F with a dew point of 38.0 F, 89 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 700 ft up.
From the east northeast (60 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Gallup Sand And Gravel (GLPN5), 2.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. 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.