NM 68 at VelardeNM020
Beside a road/7.1 mi away/5,837 ft/199 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/New Mexico/Dixon
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Dixon until 8 AM Saturday. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Dixon is 47° and clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north at 12 mph, gusting to 27 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 35° by 6 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 68°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. Rain is likely Wednesday (56%). Rain is possible Tuesday (45%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
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 19 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Dixon, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 0, good, led by fine particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Taos (NM), 20 miles off.
Yesterday measured 10, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in 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 Dixon, New MexicoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Dixon, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 4.1 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
NM 68 at VelardeNM020
Beside a road/7.1 mi away/5,837 ft/199 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Truchas RAWSTRUN5
A remote fire weather station/11.2 mi away/8,481 ft/2,445 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AlcaldeS2172
At a soil climate station/12.6 mi away/5,693 ft/343 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station EW4281EW4281
In a volunteer observer's own ground/30.6 mi away/6,898 ft/862 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Los AlamosLAM
At an airfield/31.1 mi away/7,149 ft/1,113 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Alcalde 10.8 NENM-RA-15
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.1 mi away/5,912 ft/124 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/12.5 mi away/5,690 ft/346 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 31.1 mi from Dixon, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.0 F with a dew point of 25.7 F, 41 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,000 ft up.
From the north (350 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Los Alamos, 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.