NM 502 at PojoaqueNM018
Beside a road/3.3 mi away/5,761 ft/171 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/New Mexico/Pojoaque
Pojoaque, New Mexico
Community in Santa Fe County, New Mexico* WHAT...For the Freeze Watch, sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Portions of central, east central, north central, northeast, and northwest New Mexico. * 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.
48°
62°/36°
Clear·
Feels like 45°·Light breeze 8 mph N
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Pojoaque until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Pojoaque is 48° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 45°. The dew point is 27°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 61° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 34° 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 65°. Rain is likely Wednesday (59%) and Thursday (62%). Rain is possible Tuesday (45%). Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 33°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:37 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
29Air quality
48%Humidity
4%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
48feels45
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
6236
13mph
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6533
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6540
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
6844
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
6947
45%
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
6948
59%
Thu
Oct 22
6749
62%
48°
62°36°
65°33°
65°40°
68°44°
69°47°
69°48°
67°49°
As of 12:00 AM in Pojoaque, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at Pojoaque
Index 29, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Santa Fe (NM), 19 miles off.
29Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good19.1 mi
- Ozone29Good27 ppb19.1 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 44, good.
GoodModerate
- 44YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Pojoaque
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 Pojoaque, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Pojoaque, 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 Pojoaque, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.7 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Rank934of 956
Citizen station EW4281EW4281
In a volunteer observer's own ground/9.7 mi away/6,898 ft/966 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
El Llano 2N - Black Mesa RawsBMRN5
A remote fire weather station/10.2 mi away/5,736 ft/196 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AlcaldeS2172
At a soil climate station/13.9 mi away/5,693 ft/239 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Los AlamosLAM
At an airfield/14.5 mi away/7,149 ft/1,217 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Los Alamos 13 W03062
At a climate reference station/28.7 mi away/8,716 ft/2,784 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Pojoaque 0.7 NNM-SF-96
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.7 mi away/5,904 ft/28 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/13.9 mi away/5,690 ft/242 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Los Alamos, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.5 mi from Pojoaque, 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
47.0 F with a dew point of 24.0 F, 40 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,200 ft up.
The wind
From the north (10 degrees) at 9 mph: force 3, a gentle breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Los Alamos, 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 Pojoaque
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Jaconacommunity, 2 mi
- Cuyamunguecommunity, 2 mi
- Nambecommunity, 2 mi
- Jaconitacommunity, 3 mi
- Cuyamungue Grantcommunity, 3 mi
- El Ranchocommunity, 5 mi
- El Valle de Arroyo Secocommunity, 5 mi
- La Mesillacommunity, 5 mi
- San Ildefonso Pueblocommunity, 6 mi
- Tesuque Pueblocommunity, 6 mi
- Sombrillocommunity, 6 mi
- Cuartelezcommunity, 7 mi