In a volunteer observer's own ground/26.6 mi away/4,048 ft/161 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Orogrande
Orogrande, New Mexico
Community in Otero County, New MexicoHigh Wind Warning, in full · Every severe alert
* WHAT...For the High Wind Warning, northeast winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph expected. For the Blowing Dust Advisory, visibility between one-quarter and one mile in blowing dust possible. * WHERE...Far West Texas and Otero Mesa. * WHEN...For the High Wind Warning, until noon MDT Friday. For the Blowing Dust Advisory, until 9 AM MDT Friday. * IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions due to reduced visibility. Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines. Widespread power outages are expected. Travel will be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
Persons with respiratory problems should make preparations to stay indoors until the storm passes. Be ready for a sudden drop in visibility to near zero. If you encounter blowing dust or blowing sand on the roadway or see it approaching, pull off the road as far as possible and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights all the way off and keep foot off the brake pedal. Remember, 'Pull Aside, Stay Alive'. People are urged to secure loose objects that could be blown around or damaged by the wind.
57°
67°/49°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 57°·Fresh breeze 25 mph ENE
Alert. A High Wind Warning is in force for Orogrande until 12 PM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Orogrande is 57° and mostly clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 38°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Fresh breeze from the east-northeast at 25 mph, gusting to 40 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 65° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 42° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. Rain is likely Thursday (51%). Rain is possible Tuesday (31%) and Wednesday (48%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:31 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:48 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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
31Air quality
49%Humidity
18%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
57feels57
25mph
Today
Oct 16
6749
27mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6341
12mph
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
6943
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
7653
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7958
31%
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7959
48%
UV 6
Thu
Oct 22
7759
51%
UV 6
57°
67°49°
63°41°
69°43°
76°53°
79°58°
79°59°
77°59°
As of 12:00 AM in Orogrande, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at Orogrande
Index 31, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Las Cruces (NM), 40 miles off.
31Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)10Good-
- Ozone31Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 31, good.
GoodModerate
- 31YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Orogrande
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 Orogrande, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Orogrande, New MexicoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 6 instruments nearest Orogrande, 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 now4 instruments
Rank842of 956
Mcgreggor RangeMCRN5
At a river or reservoir gauge/27.6 mi away/4,888 ft/679 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/32.5 mi away/4,196 ft/13 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Jornada Exp RangeS2168
At a soil climate station/37.7 mi away/4,360 ft/151 ft above here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
White Sands 23.5 ENM-OT-53
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.1 mi away/4,203 ft/6 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
National MonumentWSDN5
At a cooperative observer's station/28.5 mi away/4,002 ft/207 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Alamogordo-White, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 32.5 mi from Orogrande, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
60.8 F with a dew point of 32.0 F, 34 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 6,500 ft up.
The wind
From the east (100 degrees) at 17 mph, gusting 25 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 40 mph.
The full report of Alamogordo-White, 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 Orogrande
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- White Sandscommunity, 24 mi
- Timberoncommunity, 29 mi
- Chaparralcommunity, 29 mi
- Organcommunity, 30 mi
- Boles Acrescommunity, 31 mi
- Holloman AFBcommunity, 32 mi
- Butterfield Parkcommunity, 33 mi
- Alamogordocity, 37 mi
- Vadocommunity, 37 mi
- Berinocommunity, 38 mi
- Mesquitecommunity, 38 mi
- University Parkcommunity, 39 mi