Santa RosaSXU
At an airfield/20.1 mi away/4,768 ft/525 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Pastura
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Pastura until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Pastura is 46° and mostly clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 40°. The dew point is 34°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the north-northeast at 13 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 30° 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 Monday, near 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. Rain is likely Thursday (53%). Rain is possible Wednesday (42%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 29°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:24 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:36 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.
As of 12:00 AM in Pastura, New Mexico.
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 Pastura, New MexicoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 3 instruments nearest Pastura, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 6.8 miles away.
measured now1 instrument
Santa RosaSXU
At an airfield/20.1 mi away/4,768 ft/525 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Santa Rosa 12.0 SWNM-GD-11
In a volunteer observer's own ground/6.8 mi away/5,199 ft/94 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
YesoYESN5
At a cooperative observer's station/32.3 mi away/4,784 ft/509 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 20.1 mi from Pastura, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:55 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
48.2 F with a dew point of 33.8 F, 57 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,300 ft up.
From the northeast (50 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 37 mph.
The full report of Santa Rosa, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
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The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.