Fort BayardFTBN5
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.6 mi away/6,119 ft/104 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Cobre
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Cobre until 12 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Cobre is 53° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the east-northeast at 20 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 60° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 8, very high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. Rain is likely Wednesday (53%) and Thursday (50%). Rain is possible Tuesday (47%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 21 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:38 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:55 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 22 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Cobre, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 6, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Deming (NM), 43 miles off.
Yesterday measured 8, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 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 Cobre, New MexicoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Cobre, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.7 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Fort BayardFTBN5
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.6 mi away/6,119 ft/104 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW7871GW7871
In a volunteer observer's own ground/8.2 mi away/6,229 ft/214 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/10.3 mi away/5,443 ft/572 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bayard 2.8 NNM-GR-37
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.7 mi away/6,329 ft/314 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Silver City 3NSICN5
At a cooperative observer's station/10.4 mi away/6,168 ft/153 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 10.3 mi from Cobre, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
59.0 F with a dew point of 33.8 F, 39 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,700 ft up.
From the east northeast (60 degrees) at 21 mph, gusting 29 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 31 mph.
The full report of Silver City/Grant, 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.