Caballo Lake ParkCLKN5
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.9 mi away/4,230 ft/117 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Garfield
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Garfield until 12 PM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 8 degrees cooler: a high of 67° after 75° today.
Now. Garfield is 60° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 36°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northeast at 18 mph, gusting to 39 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 48° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 78°, and the coolest Saturday, near 64°. Rain is possible Tuesday (33%) and Wednesday (44%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph.
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 24 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Garfield, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 34, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Las Cruces (NM), 42 miles off.
Yesterday measured 31, 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 Garfield, New MexicoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 7 instruments nearest Garfield, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 9.9 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Caballo Lake ParkCLKN5
At a river or reservoir gauge/9.9 mi away/4,230 ft/117 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Las Cruces 20 N03074
At a climate reference station/32.2 mi away/4,327 ft/214 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
At an airfield/33.0 mi away/4,859 ft/746 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station EW7655EW7655
In a volunteer observer's own ground/34.9 mi away/4,506 ft/393 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Jornada Exp RangeS2168
At a soil climate station/35.7 mi away/4,360 ft/247 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Caballo DamCABN5
At a dam/10.0 mi away/4,199 ft/86 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Williamsburg 9.3 SNM-SR-27
In a volunteer observer's own ground/15.8 mi away/4,241 ft/128 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 33.0 mi from Garfield, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:53 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 36.0 F, 42 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,200 ft up.
From the north (10 degrees) at 16 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 mph.
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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.