Citizen station GW7871GW7871
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/6,229 ft/66 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Little Walnut Village
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Little Walnut Village until 12 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Little Walnut Village is 52° and clear at 1 AM. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the east-northeast at 17 mph, gusting to 41 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 38° by 5 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 70°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 58°. Rain is likely Wednesday (53%) and Thursday (51%). Rain is possible Tuesday (49%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 22 mph. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:39 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:56 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 1:00 AM in Little Walnut Village, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 46, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Deming (NM), 51 miles off.
Yesterday measured 8, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 12 AM. 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 Little Walnut Village, New MexicoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Little Walnut Village, 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
Citizen station GW7871GW7871
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.1 mi away/6,229 ft/66 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Fort BayardFTBN5
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.5 mi away/6,119 ft/176 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/14.6 mi away/5,443 ft/852 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Silver City 2.6 NNWNM-GR-28
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/6,296 ft/1 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Silver City 3NSICN5
At a cooperative observer's station/0.5 mi away/6,168 ft/127 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.6 mi from Little Walnut Village, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 12:55 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
57.2 F with a dew point of 33.8 F, 41 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,300 ft up.
From the east northeast (60 degrees) at 15 mph, gusting 21 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 23 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.