Taos Ski Valley

New Mexico Opens Nov 26 · base 9,344′ · skitaos.com

32°F Mostly Clear wind 5 mph

October 26 in the books — biggest dump on this date: 20.0″ in 2020 (snowed on 4 of 16 recorded years). All-time single day: 26.0″ on Feb 02, 2022.

Stoke today Oct 26

Slush from measured snow

Next 24 hours forecast

Forecast

0.0″

best available forecast · as of Oct 26 08:56

NWS 0.0″ · Open-Meteo 0.0″

Last 24 hours measured

Station

2.0″

Taos Powderhorn SNOTEL · 1.6 km · depth 2.0″ · rolling 24 h, observed Oct 26 06:00

Resort

—

resort isn’t reporting yet

Next 48 hours

Mon 9:00 32°F Mostly Clear
Mon 10:00 39°F Mostly Clear
Mon 11:00 40°F Mostly Clear
Mon 12:00 43°F Mostly Clear
Mon 13:00 45°F Partly Cloudy
Mon 14:00 45°F Partly Cloudy
Mon 15:00 46°F Partly Cloudy
Mon 16:00 45°F Partly Cloudy
Mon 17:00 43°F Mostly Clear
Mon 18:00 39°F Partly Cloudy
Mon 19:00 34°F Mostly Clear
Mon 20:00 33°F Mostly Clear
Mon 21:00 33°F Mostly Clear
Mon 22:00 32°F Mostly Clear
Mon 23:00 31°F Mostly Clear
Tue 0:00 31°F Clear
Tue 1:00 31°F Mostly Clear
Tue 2:00 31°F Mostly Clear
Tue 3:00 30°F Mostly Clear
Tue 4:00 30°F Partly Cloudy
Tue 5:00 30°F Partly Cloudy
Tue 6:00 29°F Partly Cloudy
Tue 7:00 31°F Partly Cloudy
Tue 8:00 31°F Partly Cloudy
Tue 9:00 35°F Mostly Clear
Tue 10:00 42°F Mostly Clear
Tue 11:00 43°F Partly Cloudy
Tue 12:00 45°F Partly Cloudy
Tue 13:00 47°F Partly Cloudy
Tue 14:00 48°F Mostly Clear
Tue 15:00 48°F Mostly Clear
Tue 16:00 47°F Mostly Clear
Tue 17:00 45°F Mostly Clear
Tue 18:00 41°F Mostly Clear
Tue 19:00 37°F Partly Cloudy
Tue 20:00 36°F Partly Cloudy
Tue 21:00 36°F Mostly Clear
Tue 22:00 35°F Mostly Clear
Tue 23:00 35°F Mostly Clear
Wed 0:00 34°F Mostly Clear
Wed 1:00 34°F Mostly Clear
Wed 2:00 33°F Mostly Clear
Wed 3:00 33°F Mostly Clear
Wed 4:00 33°F Mostly Clear
Wed 5:00 32°F Mostly Clear
Wed 6:00 32°F Mostly Clear
Wed 7:00 33°F Mostly Clear
Wed 8:00 35°F Mostly Clear
Wed 9:00 37°F Mostly Clear

10-day outlook

Mon Oct 26 50°F / 32°F wind 5 mph
Tue Oct 27 49°F / 35°F wind 7 mph
Wed Oct 28 50°F / 35°F wind 8 mph
Thu Oct 29 53°F / 37°F wind 5 mph
Fri Oct 30 52°F / 36°F wind 8 mph
Sat Oct 31 45°F / 35°F ❄ 0.2″ wind 6 mph
Sun Nov 01 41°F / 37°F wind 8 mph
Mon Nov 02 40°F / 29°F ❄ 0.2″ wind 11 mph
Tue Nov 03 40°F / 24°F ❄ 1.7″ wind 9 mph
Wed Nov 04 36°F / 19°F partial day wind 4 mph

Forecast data: National Weather Service; Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0); Data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0) — adapted by SnowAlert.

In the forecaster’s words

Overnight

Partly cloudy, with a low around 29. Southwest wind around 5 mph.

Today

Mostly sunny, with a high near 46. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight

Mostly clear, with a low around 28. Southwest wind 0 to 5 mph.

Tuesday

Mostly sunny. High near 49, with temperatures falling to around 45 in the afternoon. West wind 5 to 10 mph.

Tuesday Night

Mostly clear, with a low around 31. West wind 5 to 10 mph.

Wednesday

Sunny, with a high near 49. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph.

Forecast discussion ABQ · Oct 26 02:26

Issued at 103 AM MDT Mon Oct 26 2026 - Showers and thunderstorms will continue over southeast and east central areas today into tonight, but the risk of locally heavy rainfall and flash flooding is subsiding. - River flooding will continue over parts of central and northern New Mexico today. - After dry weather mid week, showers, thunderstorms, and very high terrain snow are forecast during the latter half of the week.

Read the full discussion
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FXUS65 KABQ 260826
AFDABQ

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
226 AM MDT Mon Oct 26 2026

...New SHORT TERM, LONG TERM, FIRE WEATHER...

.KEY MESSAGES... 
Issued at 103 AM MDT Mon Oct 26 2026

- Showers and thunderstorms will continue over southeast and east
  central areas today into tonight, but the risk of locally heavy
  rainfall and flash flooding is subsiding. 

- River flooding will continue over parts of central and northern 
  New Mexico today.

- After dry weather mid week, showers, thunderstorms, and very
  high terrain snow are forecast during the latter half of the
  week.

&&

.SHORT TERM...
(Today through Wednesday Night) 
Issued at 103 AM MDT Mon Oct 26 2026

Patchy fog is forecast in spots from the east slopes of the
central mountain chain westward until mid morning. Locations with
pooling water on the ground from recent heavy rainfall will be
favored for the fog, which will likely be dense and make travel
hazardous in spots.  

As the second in a series of two, back-to-back, storm systems that
brought unprecedented flooding to parts of the forecast area exits
the region to the northeast, a weaker tertiary disturbance will
keep isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms going over 
the south central mountains, southeast, and east central areas
today into the late night hours tonight. PWATs will continue to
trend downard, so the risk of locally heavy rainfall is low. NBM
90th Percentile QPF suggest a few parts of the southeast plains
could accumulate another 0.75" of rain, which could result in
nuissance flooding where the ground is saturated from the recent
rounds of heavy rain over the past few days.  

Otherwise, drier and warmer weather is forecast today through
Wednesday night as an active storm track north of NM draws dry 
west and southwest flow over the forecast area. High temperatures 
will climb near 1991-2020 averages areawide starting Tuesday, then
as much as 8 degrees above the averages on the eastern plains 
Wednesday.  

&&

.LONG TERM...
(Tuesday night through Sunday)
Issued at 103 AM MDT Mon Oct 26 2026

During the latter half of the week, models continue to depict an 
upper level low pressure system stalling over the Pacific NW 
coast. It will draw a rich return flow of Gulf moisture into the 
forecast area Wednesday night and Thursday. Showers and 
thunderstorms will then increase in coverage over southern areas 
Thursday afternoon, and areawide Thursday night through Friday 
night, as a couple of shortwave troughs cross NM in succession 
from the southwest. GEFS PWATs peak Friday and Friday night 
around 180-250 percent of normal, which is quite high. However, 
actual PWATs are only forecast to vary from 0.50-1.00" from 
northwest to southeast across the forecast area. The main wave of
precip with the first shortwave trough will cross the southeast
third of the forecast area Friday morning when the instability 
isn't very strong, so the risk of locally heavy rainfall will be 
minimal. Similarly, the main wave of precip with the second 
shortwave trough looks to cross Friday night and Saturday morning,
limiting instability and the risk of locally heavy rainfall. 
Temperatures at 700 mb look to bottom out around +2 to +4 C Friday
and Friday night, indicating the highest peaks over 10K feet will
probably accumulate a few inches of snow.

There are significant differences in track, depth, and timing, but
models generally depict a stronger and colder storm system
tracking southeastward over the forecast area early next week with
precip breaking out over western areas Saturday night, then
becoming widespread across the forecast area on Sunday.

&&

.AVIATION...
(06Z TAFS)
Issued at 1136 PM MDT Sun Oct 25 2026

Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms will continue over
the eastern plains and south central mountains for the remainder
of tonight. Showers and storms will then linger over far east 
central areas until mid morning Monday. Monday afternoon and night
scattered showers and thunderstorms will then return to the south
central mountains, southeast plains, and east central plains.
Otherwise, widespread MVFR and IFR conditions in low clouds will 
continue east of the central mountain chain for the remainder of 
tonight until mid morning Monday, except into the afternoon in 
some east central and southeast locations. Along and west of the 
central mountain chain, patchy fog will impact many locations for 
the remainder of the night until mid morning Monday, including 
KGUP.

&&

.FIRE WEATHER...
Issued at 103 AM MDT Mon Oct 26 2026

The main fire weather concern today and tonight, then again during
the latter half of the week and the weekend, will be gusty and 
erratic thunderstorm outflow. Southwest winds will probably gust 
in the 25-35 mph range over northeast areas on Tuesday and
Wednesday. Otherwise, areas of poor ventilation are forecast daily
this week, becoming most widespread Thursday and Friday.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
Farmington......................  61  38  64  40 /   0   0   0   0 
Dulce...........................  57  27  61  30 /   0   0   0   0 
Cuba............................  58  36  61  38 /   0   0   0   0 
Gallup..........................  63  31  66  33 /   0   0   0   0 
El Morro........................  62  32  64  33 /   0   0   0   0 
Grants..........................  63  33  67  32 /   0   0   0   0 
Quemado.........................  65  35  68  34 /   0   0   0   0 
Magdalena.......................  62  42  67  42 /   0   0   0   0 
Datil...........................  61  36  65  35 /   0   0   0   0 
Reserve.........................  68  35  69  36 /   0   0   0   0 
Glenwood........................  73  41  73  42 /   0   0   0   0 
Chama...........................  53  28  54  31 /   0   0   0   0 
Los Alamos......................  58  39  62  41 /   0   0   0   0 
Pecos...........................  61  34  62  36 /   0   0   5   0 
Cerro/Questa....................  56  35  58  36 /   0   0   0   0 
Red River.......................  49  26  50  30 /   0   0   0   0 
Angel Fire......................  55  19  55  23 /   0   0   5   0 
Taos............................  59  27  61  31 /   0   0   0   0 
Mora............................  60  29  63  32 /   0   0   5   0 
Espanola........................  64  37  66  38 /   0   0   0   0 
Santa Fe........................  60  39  62  39 /   0   0   5   0 
Santa Fe Airport................  62  37  65  38 /   0   0   0   0 
Albuquerque Foothills...........  66  45  67  47 /   0   0   0   0 
Albuquerque Heights.............  67  46  69  46 /   0   0   0   0 
Albuquerque Valley..............  68  43  70  45 /   0   0   0   0 
Albuquerque West Mesa...........  65  45  68  46 /   0   0   0   0 
Belen...........................  67  44  70  44 /   0   0   0   0 
Bernalillo......................  66  43  69  44 /   0   0   0   0 
Bosque Farms....................  67  42  70  42 /   0   0   0   0 
Corrales........................  66  43  68  44 /   0   0   0   0 
Los Lunas.......................  67  44  70  42 /   0   0   0   0 
Placitas........................  64  43  67  45 /   0   0   0   0 
Rio Rancho......................  65  44  67  45 /   0   0   0   0 
Socorro.........................  69  49  72  49 /   0   5   0   0 
Sandia Park/Cedar Crest.........  60  40  63  40 /   0   0   0   0 
Tijeras.........................  62  42  64  42 /   0   0   0   0 
Edgewood........................  62  35  64  37 /   0   0   0   0 
Moriarty/Estancia...............  63  33  66  32 /   0   0   0   0 
Clines Corners..................  60  40  62  40 /   0   0   0   0 
Mountainair.....................  63  40  64  41 /   0   5   5   0 
Gran Quivira....................  63  41  63  42 /   0  10   5   0 
Carrizozo.......................  66  47  66  48 /  20  20   5   0 
Ruidoso.........................  61  42  62  43 /  30  10   5   0 
Capulin.........................  59  38  64  38 /   0   5   5   0 
Raton...........................  63  34  68  33 /   0   5   5   0 
Springer........................  65  32  71  31 /   0   0   5   0 
Las Vegas.......................  61  34  65  36 /   0   0   5   0 
Clayton.........................  66  46  69  46 /  10  10   5   0 
Roy.............................  62  40  68  38 /   0  10   5   0 
Conchas.........................  69  48  74  47 /  10  10   5   0 
Santa Rosa......................  66  47  72  47 /   5  10   5   0 
Tucumcari.......................  69  49  74  50 /  30  20   5   0 
Clovis..........................  66  52  71  52 /  50  60  10   0 
Portales........................  67  52  72  50 /  40  60  10   0 
Fort Sumner.....................  66  51  71  49 /  40  40  10   0 
Roswell.........................  65  52  70  48 /  30  40  10   0 
Picacho.........................  65  46  71  46 /  40  20  10   0 
Elk.............................  65  44  69  44 /  40  20  10   0 

&&

.ABQ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
None.

&&

$$

SHORT TERM...44
LONG TERM....44
AVIATION...44

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