Signal Peak SnotelSGNN5
A snow pillow on a mountain/7.4 mi away/8,360 ft/2,255 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Lake Roberts
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Lake Roberts until 12 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Lake Roberts is 45° and clear at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northeast at 16 mph, gusting to 31 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 61° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° by 5 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 sun is strong around midday: UV index 8, very high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour. Air quality is unhealthy for sensitive groups (index 144): children, older adults and people with heart or lung conditions should cut back on long or hard exertion outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. Rain or snow is likely Tuesday (62%), Wednesday (60%) and Thursday (64%). Rain is possible Monday (43%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
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 21 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Lake Roberts, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 144, unhealthy for sensitive groups, led by coarse particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Deming (NM), 59 miles off.
Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Lake Roberts, New MexicoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Lake Roberts, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.1 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Signal Peak SnotelSGNN5
A snow pillow on a mountain/7.4 mi away/8,360 ft/2,255 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station GW7871GW7871
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.5 mi away/6,229 ft/124 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/27.2 mi away/5,443 ft/662 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Lake RobertsLARN5
At a cooperative observer's station/0.1 mi away/6,102 ft/3 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Roberts Lake 0.5 WNWNM-GR-126
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/5,987 ft/118 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 27.2 mi from Lake Roberts, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
Scattered at 8,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
52.3 F with a dew point of 31.0 F, 44 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,800 ft up; the lowest cloud reported is at 8,000 ft.
From the east northeast (70 degrees) at 13 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 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.