Los Lunas Pmc ScanLNAN5
At a river or reservoir gauge/2.7 mi away/4,767 ft/142 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Los Lunas
Los Lunas, New Mexico
Village in Valencia County, New Mexico* WHAT...For the Freeze Watch, sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Middle Rio Grande Valley including the Albuquerque Metro Area, and South Central Highlands. * 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.
48°
65°/44°
Clear·
Feels like 43°·Gentle breeze 11 mph ESE
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Los Lunas until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Los Lunas is 48° and clear at 7 AM. With the wind it feels like 43°. The dew point is 29°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east-southeast at 11 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 65° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° 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 sun is strong around midday: UV index 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 65°. Thunderstorms is likely Thursday (59%). Rain is possible Wednesday (46%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 36°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:43 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 19 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
30Air quality
55%Humidity
12%Cloud
Now
7:00 AM
48feels43
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
6544
14mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
6536
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6844
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7349
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7452
26%
12mph
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7454
46%
Thu
Oct 22
7254
59%
15mph
48°
65°44°
65°36°
68°44°
73°49°
74°52°
74°54°
72°54°
As of 7:00 AM in Los Lunas, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at Los Lunas
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Albuquerque (NM), 20 miles off.
30Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)23Good15.4 mi
- Ozone30Good37 ppb0.7 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)27Good15.4 mi
- Nitrogen dioxide0Good0.6 ppb15.4 mi
- Sulfur dioxide0Good0.3 ppb24.3 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.1 ppm15.4 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 39, good.
GoodModerate
- 39YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 42 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Los Lunas
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 6 AM. 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 Los Lunas, the next 42 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Los Lunas, 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 Los Lunas, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.5 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Rank592of 956
Los Lunas PMCS2169
At a soil climate station/2.7 mi away/4,846 ft/63 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station FW8473FW8473
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.8 mi away/4,835 ft/74 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
BelenBRG
At an airfield/12.3 mi away/5,171 ft/262 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-40 at SR6NM001
Beside a road/26.7 mi away/5,560 ft/651 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Socorro 20 N03048
At a climate reference station/32.6 mi away/4,847 ft/62 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Los Lunas 0.7 SSWNM-VL-13
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.5 mi away/4,846 ft/63 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Los Lunas Ag Science CenterLLUN5
At a cooperative observer's station/2.9 mi away/4,833 ft/76 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Belen, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 12.3 mi from Los Lunas, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 7:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
44.0 F with a dew point of 29.3 F, 56 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,300 ft up.
The wind
From the west (280 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 24 mph.
The full report of Belen, 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 Los Lunas
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- El Cerrocommunity, 4 mi
- Peraltatown, 4 mi
- Valenciacommunity, 4 mi
- Bosque Farmsvillage, 4 mi
- Los Chavescommunity, 5 mi
- Tomecommunity, 5 mi
- Chicalcommunity, 6 mi
- El Cerro Missioncommunity, 6 mi
- Monterey Parkcommunity, 7 mi
- Adelinocommunity, 7 mi
- Las Maravillascommunity, 7 mi
- Isletacommunity, 7 mi