Santa RosaSXU
At an airfield/2.4 mi away/4,768 ft/174 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Santa Rosa
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Santa Rosa until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Santa Rosa is 45° and clear at 3 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 40°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the north-northeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 59° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 33° 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 Monday, near 76°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. Rain is possible Wednesday (33%) and Thursday (47%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 32°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:23 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:34 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, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 3:00 AM in Santa Rosa, New Mexico.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Fri 2 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sun 12 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
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The 3 instruments nearest Santa Rosa, 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 now1 instrument
Santa RosaSXU
At an airfield/2.4 mi away/4,768 ft/174 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Santa Rosa 0.4 SWNM-GD-3
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.3 mi away/4,633 ft/39 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Fort Sumner - Sumner LakeFSLN5
At a cooperative observer's station/29.0 mi away/4,278 ft/316 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.4 mi from Santa Rosa, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 3:15 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
42.8 F with a dew point of 33.8 F, 70 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,000 ft up.
From the north northeast (30 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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
Measured at Fort Sumner - Sumner Lake (FSLN5), 29.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 08:00. measured daily
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