Mills Canyon RAWSMLCN5
A remote fire weather station/21.5 mi away/5,827 ft/395 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Wagon Mound
Freeze Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A Freeze Warning is in force for Wagon Mound until 9 AM today. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Wagon Mound is 40° and mostly clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 32°. The dew point is 33°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the north at 14 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 54° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 26° 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 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Monday, near 69°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 61°. Rain is likely Thursday (53%). Rain is possible Wednesday (45%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 26°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:22 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:31 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 17 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 12:00 AM in Wagon Mound, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 0, good, led by fine particles. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Taos (NM), 55 miles off.
Yesterday measured 10, 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
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The 4 instruments nearest Wagon Mound, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 3.5 miles away.
measured now2 instruments
Mills Canyon RAWSMLCN5
A remote fire weather station/21.5 mi away/5,827 ft/395 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
At an airfield/34.6 mi away/6,873 ft/651 ft above here
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measured daily2 instruments
Wagon Mound 3.2 WNWNM-MR-16
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.5 mi away/6,408 ft/186 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
OcateOCTN5
At a cooperative observer's station/22.7 mi away/7,249 ft/1,027 ft above here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 34.6 mi from Wagon Mound, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud reported; visibility 10 mi or more.
34.0 F with a dew point of 29.0 F, 82 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,100 ft up.
From the north northwest (340 degrees) at 13 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 41 mph.
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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.