At an airfield/26.0 mi away/5,502 ft/525 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Shiprock
Alert. A Freeze Watch is in force for Shiprock until 8 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Shiprock is 50° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 47°. The dew point is 44°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the east-northeast at 8 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 64° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 41° by 6 AM, under a mostly clear sky. 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 Sunday, near 64°. Rain is likely Tuesday (51%), Wednesday (60%) and Thursday (72%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:37 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:45 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 15 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Shiprock, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 30, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, San Juan County (NM), 20 miles off.
Good each day through Today, led by ozone. Yesterday measured 48, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 24 hours; 0.31 in over the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 9 miles or more through Sat 6 PM, lowest 10 miles Fri 5 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Shiprock, New MexicoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 5 instruments nearest Shiprock, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.4 miles away.
measured now3 instruments
At an airfield/26.0 mi away/5,502 ft/525 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station DW4879DW4879
In a volunteer observer's own ground/28.4 mi away/5,821 ft/844 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Citizens Ditch At Bloomfield09355600
At a river or reservoir gauge/39.9 mi away/5,563 ft/586 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Shiprock 5.2 WSWNM-SJ-37
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.4 mi away/5,288 ft/311 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
ARSFARN5
At a cooperative observer's station/25.5 mi away/5,666 ft/689 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 26.0 mi from Shiprock, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.0 F with a dew point of 44.0 F, 93 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 500 ft up.
From the east northeast (70 degrees) at 6 mph: force 2, a light breeze on the Beaufort scale.
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Snow on the ground
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.