Vallecito Creek At Paliza Canyon Nr Ponderosa08324950
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.4 mi away/6,768 ft/1,248 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Zia Pueblo
High Wind Warning, in full · Every severe alert
Alert. A High Wind Warning is in force for Zia Pueblo until 9 AM tomorrow. 1 more alert is in force here as well. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Zia Pueblo is 53° and clear at 11 PM. The dew point is 31°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the east at 15 mph, gusting to 29 mph.
Today and tonight. Tonight falls to about 41° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. Air quality is moderate (index 95): fine for most people, though people unusually sensitive to air pollution may feel it outdoors.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Tuesday, near 72°, and the coolest Saturday, near 64°. Rain is likely Wednesday (54%). Rain is possible Tuesday (44%). Frost is possible Saturday morning, a low of 35°.
The sky now. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 26% lit, and stays below the horizon until dawn. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. Look for Saturn, bright in the south-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 20 minutes long, 2 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 11:00 PM in Zia Pueblo, New Mexico.
Air quality
Index 95, moderate, led by coarse particles. Read at 10 PM from its reporting area, Albuquerque (NM), 30 miles off.
Good each day through Sun Oct 18, led by fine particles. Yesterday measured 44, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 10 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
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The 7 instruments nearest Zia Pueblo, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 7.7 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Vallecito Creek At Paliza Canyon Nr Ponderosa08324950
At a river or reservoir gauge/14.4 mi away/6,768 ft/1,248 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
Citizen station DW7603DW7603
In a volunteer observer's own ground/16.5 mi away/5,746 ft/226 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Albuquerque/Double Eagle Ii AptAEG
At an airfield/25.5 mi away/5,837 ft/317 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Los Alamos 13 W03062
At a climate reference station/26.0 mi away/8,716 ft/3,196 ft above here
temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip
I-25 at La BajadaNM011
Beside a road/27.5 mi away/5,699 ft/179 ft above here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
measured daily2 instruments
Jemez Pueblo 1.6 WNM-SN-134
In a volunteer observer's own ground/7.7 mi away/5,610 ft/90 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
At a dam/12.6 mi away/5,398 ft/122 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 25.5 mi from Zia Pueblo, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 10:50 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
49.6 F with a dew point of 30.7 F, 48 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 4,300 ft up.
From the southeast (140 degrees) at 15 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 25 mph.
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Snow on the ground
Measured at Bernalillo - Jemez Dam (BRNN5), 12.6 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 07:00. measured daily
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.