Citizen station EW2978EW2978
In a volunteer observer's own ground/4.8 mi away/4,848 ft/199 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Monterey Park
Monterey Park, New Mexico
Community 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.
53°
64°/43°
Clear·
Feels like 53°·Gentle breeze 12 mph E
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Monterey Park until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Monterey Park is 53° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east at 12 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 63° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 35° 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. Air quality is moderate (index 76): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 64°. Rain is likely Thursday (50%). Rain is possible Wednesday (46%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 34°.
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
76Air quality
41%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
53feels53
12mph
Today
Oct 16
6443
20mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
6434
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6743
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7248
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7452
28%
14mph
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7353
46%
12mph
Thu
Oct 22
7153
50%
15mph
53°
64°43°
64°34°
67°43°
72°48°
74°52°
73°53°
71°53°
As of 12:00 AM in Monterey Park, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at Monterey Park
Index 76, moderate, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Albuquerque (NM), 22 miles off.
76Moderate
- Fine particles (PM2.5)33Good17.9 mi
- Ozone32Good36 ppb6.3 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)76Moderate17.9 mi
- Carbon monoxide-0.1 ppm17.9 mi
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 44, good.
GoodModerate
- 44YesterdayOct 14
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Monterey Park
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 Monterey Park, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Monterey Park, 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 Monterey Park, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.6 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Rank879of 956
Los Lunas Pmc ScanLNAN5
At a river or reservoir gauge/6.7 mi away/4,767 ft/280 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Los Lunas PMCS2169
At a soil climate station/6.7 mi away/4,846 ft/201 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
BelenBRG
At an airfield/13.2 mi away/5,171 ft/124 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Socorro 20 N03048
At a climate reference station/31.1 mi away/4,847 ft/200 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
I-40 WB at Sedillo MP 181NM010
Beside a road/31.5 mi away/7,043 ft/1,996 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Los Lunas 6.9 SSENM-VL-64
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.6 mi away/4,986 ft/61 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Los Lunas Ag Science CenterLLUN5
At a cooperative observer's station/6.5 mi away/4,833 ft/214 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Belen, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 13.2 mi from Monterey Park, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
55.6 F with a dew point of 30.0 F, 37 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,800 ft up.
The wind
From the east southeast (110 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 Monterey Park
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- El Cerro Missioncommunity, 1 mi
- Las Maravillascommunity, 2 mi
- El Cerrocommunity, 3 mi
- Valenciacommunity, 4 mi
- Tomecommunity, 5 mi
- Meadow Lakecommunity, 5 mi
- Peraltatown, 6 mi
- Adelinocommunity, 6 mi
- Los Chavescommunity, 7 mi
- Los Lunasvillage, 7 mi
- Bosque Farmsvillage, 7 mi
- Chicalcommunity, 8 mi