Pinon 8SSEPNMN5
At a river or reservoir gauge/7.2 mi away/5,456 ft/483 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Pinon
Pinon, 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.
50°
71°/48°
Mostly clear·
Feels like 42°·Strong breeze 29 mph NE
Alert. A High Wind Warning is in force for Pinon until 12 PM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book. Tomorrow is 15 degrees cooler: a high of 56° after 71° today.
Now. Pinon is 50° and mostly clear at 11 PM. With the wind it feels like 42°. The dew point is 35°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Strong breeze from the northeast at 29 mph, gusting to 44 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 40° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 74°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 56°. Rain is possible Tuesday (32%) and Wednesday (44%). The windiest day is tomorrow, with wind to 29 mph. The first freeze could come Saturday, a low of 32°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 25 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
36Air quality
58%Humidity
14%Cloud
Now
11:00 PM
50feels42
29mph
Today
Oct 15
7148
30mph
UV 8
Fri
Oct 16
5640
29mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
5732
UV 8
Sun
Oct 18
6536
UV 8
Mon
Oct 19
7246
14%
UV 8
Tue
Oct 20
7451
32%
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7452
44%
UV 7
50°
71°48°
56°40°
57°32°
65°36°
72°46°
74°51°
74°52°
As of 11:00 PM in Pinon, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at Pinon
Index 36, good, led by ozone. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Carlsbad (NM), 66 miles off.
36Good
- Ozone36Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 37, good.
GoodModerate
- 37YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 44 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Pinon
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 9 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 Pinon, the next 44 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Pinon, New MexicoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 5 instruments nearest Pinon, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.2 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
Rank378of 956
In a volunteer observer's own ground/36.5 mi away/4,048 ft/1,891 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
At an airfield/39.2 mi away/4,196 ft/1,743 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Weed 1.8 SNM-OT-80
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.2 mi away/7,071 ft/1,132 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ElkELKN5
At a cooperative observer's station/23.8 mi away/5,814 ft/125 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Alamogordo-White, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 39.2 mi from Pinon, 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 9 mi.
The air
64.4 F with a dew point of 32.0 F, 30 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 7,300 ft up.
The wind
From the east (80 degrees) at 24 mph, gusting 37 mph: force 5, a fresh 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 Pinon
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Weedcommunity, 16 mi
- Sacramentocommunity, 16 mi
- Timberoncommunity, 19 mi
- Mayhillcommunity, 21 mi
- Twin Forkscommunity, 28 mi
- Cloudcroftvillage, 32 mi
- High Rollscommunity, 35 mi
- Boles Acrescommunity, 38 mi
- Alamogordocity, 39 mi
- Hopevillage, 40 mi
- La Luzcommunity, 42 mi
- Holloman AFBcommunity, 44 mi