At an airfield/2.1 mi away/4,308 ft/42 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Ventura
Alert. A Wind Advisory is in force for Ventura until 12 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Ventura is 61° and clear at 12 AM. The dew point is 37°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the east-northeast at 18 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 66° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 43° 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 8, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 79°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 63°. Rain is possible Tuesday (30%), Wednesday (39%) and Thursday (44%).
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:37 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:55 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 23 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Ventura, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 6, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Deming (NM), 2 miles off.
Yesterday measured 8, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Ventura, New MexicoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 3 instruments nearest Ventura, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
At an airfield/2.1 mi away/4,308 ft/42 ft above here
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Hachita 7ESEHTAN5
At a river or reservoir gauge/39.2 mi away/4,652 ft/386 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
measured daily1 instrument
Deming 3.9 ENM-LU-44
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/4,269 ft/3 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 2.1 mi from Ventura, 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.
61.0 F with a dew point of 37.0 F, 41 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 5,500 ft up.
From the east northeast (60 degrees) at 20 mph, gusting 29 mph: force 5, a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 36 mph.
The full report of Deming Municipal, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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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.