US 285 at EspanolaNM016
Beside a road/2.6 mi away/5,666 ft/28 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
Weather/New Mexico/Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, 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.
36°
64°/35°
Clear·
Feels like 33°·Light breeze 4 mph NE
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Santa Cruz until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Santa Cruz is 36° and clear at 6 AM. With the wind it feels like 33°. The dew point is 25°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northeast at 4 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 63° 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 72°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 67°. Rain is likely Wednesday (55%) and Thursday (64%). Rain is possible Tuesday (34%). 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 10:36 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 16 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
25Air quality
60%Humidity
0%Cloud
Now
6:00 AM
36feels33
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
6435
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6733
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6739
UV 6
Mon
Oct 19
7043
UV 6
Tue
Oct 20
7246
34%
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
7149
55%
Thu
Oct 22
6949
64%
36°
64°35°
67°33°
67°39°
70°43°
72°46°
71°49°
69°49°
As of 6:00 AM in Santa Cruz, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at Santa Cruz
Index 25, good, led by fine particles. Read at 6 AM from its reporting area, Santa Fe (NM), 26 miles off.
25Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)25Good-
- Ozone19Good-
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 38, good.
GoodModerate
- 38YesterdayOct 15
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sun 12 AM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Santa Cruz
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 5 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 Santa Cruz, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Santa Cruz, 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 Santa Cruz, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 1.1 miles away.
measured now6 instruments
Rank838of 956
El Llano 2N - Black Mesa RawsBMRN5
A remote fire weather station/2.9 mi away/5,736 ft/42 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
AlcaldeS2172
At a soil climate station/6.6 mi away/5,693 ft/1 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Citizen station GW0084GW0084
In a volunteer observer's own ground/14.5 mi away/7,091 ft/1,397 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Los AlamosLAM
At an airfield/14.9 mi away/7,149 ft/1,455 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Los Alamos 13 W03062
At a climate reference station/28.4 mi away/8,716 ft/3,022 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Espanola 1.2 SSENM-RA-5
In a volunteer observer's own ground/1.1 mi away/5,620 ft/74 ft below here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a cooperative observer's station/6.7 mi away/5,690 ft/4 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Los Alamos, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.9 mi from Santa Cruz, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 6:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 8 mi.
The air
38.0 F with a dew point of 23.4 F, 55 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 3,300 ft up.
The wind
Calm.
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 Santa Cruz
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Españolacity, 1 mi
- Sombrillocommunity, 1 mi
- Cuartelezcommunity, 2 mi
- La Pueblacommunity, 3 mi
- El Valle de Arroyo Secocommunity, 3 mi
- Santa Clara Pueblocommunity, 3 mi
- Ohkay Owingehcommunity, 4 mi
- La Mesillacommunity, 4 mi
- San Josecommunity, 4 mi
- Chimayocommunity, 5 mi
- Hernandezcommunity, 6 mi
- Pueblitocommunity, 6 mi