At an airfield/6.0 mi away/6,519 ft/84 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Mount Taylor
Now. Mount Taylor is 47° and mostly clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the southeast at 21 mph, gusting to 34 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 4 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. 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 67°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 60°. Rain or snow is likely Wednesday (57%) and Thursday (67%). Rain is possible Monday (39%) and Tuesday (40%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:35 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:47 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 18 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Mount Taylor, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 33, good, led by ozone. Read at 12 AM from its reporting area, Chaco Culture National Historical Park (NM), 63 miles off.
Yesterday measured 50, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 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 Mount Taylor, New MexicoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Mount Taylor, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 2.0 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
At an airfield/6.0 mi away/6,519 ft/84 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Grants RAWS 11NEGRSN5
A remote fire weather station/10.9 mi away/8,619 ft/2,184 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
ThoreauS2233
At a soil climate station/28.3 mi away/7,065 ft/630 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
I-40 at SR6NM001
Beside a road/37.3 mi away/5,560 ft/875 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Grants 0.8 ENM-CB-19
In a volunteer observer's own ground/2.0 mi away/6,472 ft/37 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
CuberoCBRN5
At a cooperative observer's station/16.7 mi away/6,237 ft/198 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 6.0 mi from Mount Taylor, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
51.0 F with a dew point of 32.0 F, 48 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,300 ft up.
From the southeast (130 degrees) at 18 mph, gusting 28 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 29 mph.
The full report of Grants-Milan Muni, 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.