US 285 at TesuqueNM017
Beside a road/2.7 mi away/6,824 ft/336 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/New Mexico/Encantado
Encantado, New Mexico
Community in Santa Fe County, New Mexico* WHAT...For the Freeze Watch, sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, north central, northeast, and northwest New Mexico. * WHEN...From late tonight through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
43°
59°/33°
Clear·
Feels like 39°·Light breeze 5 mph NNE
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Encantado until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Encantado is 43° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 5 mph, gusting to 20 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° 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 Wednesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. Rain is likely Tuesday (50%), Wednesday (62%) and Thursday (63%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:37 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.
0UV Low
29Air quality
57%Humidity
5%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
43feels39
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5933
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6231
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6238
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6541
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
6544
50%
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
6646
62%
Thu
Oct 22
6447
63%
43°
59°33°
62°31°
62°38°
65°41°
65°44°
66°46°
64°47°
As of 12:00 AM in Encantado, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at Encantado
Index 29, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Santa Fe (NM), 15 miles off.
29Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good15.1 mi
- Ozone29Good27 ppb15.1 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 44, good.
GoodModerate
- 44YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Encantado
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Encantado, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Encantado, New MexicoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 8 instruments nearest Encantado, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.7 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Rank560of 956
Citizen station EW4281EW4281
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.6 mi away/6,898 ft/262 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Santa Fe SnotelSFSN5
A snow pillow on a mountain/7.4 mi away/11,445 ft/4,285 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/15.8 mi away/6,345 ft/815 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
AlcaldeS2172
At a soil climate station/22.1 mi away/5,693 ft/1,467 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Los Alamos 13 W03062
At a climate reference station/34.4 mi away/8,716 ft/1,556 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Santa Fe 3.7 NENM-SF-223
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.3 mi away/7,471 ft/311 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Santa FeSTFN5
At a cooperative observer's station/12.6 mi away/6,718 ft/442 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Santa Fe Co. Muni, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 15.8 mi from Encantado, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
41.0 F with a dew point of 32.0 F, 70 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up.
The wind
From the west (280 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Santa Fe Co. Muni, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Elsewhere in New Mexico
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Encantado
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Chupaderocommunity, 1 mi
- Peak Placecommunity, 2 mi
- Rio en Mediocommunity, 2 mi
- Tesuquecommunity, 3 mi
- Tesuque Pueblocommunity, 4 mi
- Hyde Parkcommunity, 6 mi
- Cuyamungue Grantcommunity, 6 mi
- Tano Roadcommunity, 6 mi
- Ski Santa Feski area, 7 mi
- Santa Fecity, 7 mi
- Cuyamunguecommunity, 8 mi
- Nambecommunity, 8 mi