Citizen station GW2457GW2457
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.5 mi away/5,946 ft/184 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Sandia Heights
Sandia Heights, New Mexico
Community in Bernalillo County, New Mexico* WHAT...For the Freeze Watch, sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 possible. * WHERE...Middle Rio Grande Valley including the Albuquerque Metro Area, and South Central Highlands. * 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.
45°
63°/38°
Clear·
Feels like 39°·Gentle breeze 10 mph E
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Sandia Heights until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Sandia Heights is 45° and clear at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 39°. The dew point is 30°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Gentle breeze from the east at 10 mph, gusting to 43 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 62° by 3 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 71°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. Rain or snow is likely Wednesday (52%) and Thursday (63%). Rain is possible Tuesday (36%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:30 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:41 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.
0UV Low
32Air quality
50%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
3:00 AM
45feels39
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
6338
16mph
UV 8
Sat
Oct 17
6331
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6541
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6945
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
7149
36%
UV 7
Wed
Oct 21
7151
52%
Thu
Oct 22
6951
63%
12mph
45°
63°38°
63°31°
65°41°
69°45°
71°49°
71°51°
69°51°
As of 3:00 AM in Sandia Heights, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at Sandia Heights
Index 32, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 3 AM from its reporting area, Albuquerque (NM), 11 miles off.
32Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good-
- Ozone28Good26 ppb8.9 mi
- Coarse particles (PM10)32Good-
The days ahead
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 39, good.
GoodModerate
- 39YesterdayOct 15
- GoodTodayOct 16
- GoodSatOct 17
- GoodSunOct 18
Smoke, the next 46 hours
Little smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM: the index from smoke stays at 6 or under.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Sandia Heights
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. 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 Sandia Heights, the next 46 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Sandia Heights, New MexicoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Sandia Heights, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.3 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rank840of 956
10K RAWSTEKN5
A remote fire weather station/3.9 mi away/10,049 ft/3,919 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/11.6 mi away/5,315 ft/815 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
I-40 WB at Sedillo MP 181NM010
Beside a road/13.0 mi away/7,043 ft/913 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Los Lunas PMCS2169
At a soil climate station/31.9 mi away/4,846 ft/1,284 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Sandia Heights 0.2 WNWNM-BR-236
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/6,099 ft/31 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Rio Grande/Sandia Mtns-Bear CanyonABFN5
At a cooperative observer's station/2.9 mi away/6,253 ft/123 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Albuquerque INTL, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 11.6 mi from Sandia Heights, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 2:52 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
49.0 F with a dew point of 30.0 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.
The wind
From the east (100 degrees) at 29 mph, gusting 43 mph: force 6, a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 44 mph.
The full report of Albuquerque INTL, 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 Sandia Heights
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Sandia Crestfeature, 3 mi
- Sandia Peakski area, 3 mi
- Edith Enclavecommunity, 6 mi
- Pueblo of Sandia Villagecommunity, 7 mi
- North Valleycommunity, 7 mi
- Sandia Parkcommunity, 7 mi
- Cedar Crestcommunity, 8 mi
- Carnuelcommunity, 8 mi
- San Antonitocommunity, 8 mi
- Kirtland AFBcommunity, 8 mi
- Los Ranchos de Albuquerquevillage, 9 mi
- Corralesvillage, 9 mi