Peralta, NM Weather Forecast
Valencia County, New Mexico
Seven-day outlook
37–74°F across the weekThe week runs between 37° and 74°, with today the warmest day of it. The second half leans cooling, and Tuesday is the coolest day in it. Sunday is the wettest day, peaking near 76%. 3 of the 7 days stay dry.
Forecasts come from the National Weather Service's own computer models, and current conditions from the nearest reporting weather station. Both are served through the weather API. A forecast is guidance, not a warning, and anything the Weather Service has actually issued is on the live map.
The written summaries on this page are generated from the forecast data above, not by a meteorologist. Each sentence is a reading of the same numbers you can see, and no forecaster has reviewed them.
About the Peralta forecast
Peralta sits at 34.8283°N, 106.6860°W in Valencia County, New Mexico. The forecast above is drawn for that point from the National Weather Service's own computer models: a seven-day outlook, and a finer-grained one covering the next eighteen hours where it reaches, and the radar and alert panels show what the Weather Service has out over the area right now.
- County
- Valencia County
- Coordinates
- 34.8283°N, 106.6860°W
- Population
- 3,428 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 4.443 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Peralta, and the forecast is for that location, not for every address inside the city limits, and a large city can have real weather differences from one side to the other.
How well can the network see Peralta?
The nearest Doppler radar is KABX (Albuquerque, NM), 24 miles to the NNW. A WSR-88D's lowest routine scan sits half a degree above horizontal, and the earth curves away beneath it, so by the time that beam reaches Peralta its center is about 1,400 ft above ground. That is about as close as radar coverage gets in the United States: the lowest scan is still near the ground when it reaches Peralta, so low-level rotation and the leading edge of a gust front show up on it. Peralta is closer to its radar than 80% of US cities.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KBRG · Belen Rgnl on the ASOS/AWOS network, 15 miles away. Far enough that "current conditions" for Peralta is an educated reading of somewhere else, worth knowing before you plan around a single temperature.
Beam height is the standard 4/3-earth approximation for the 0.5° scan and assumes normal refraction; it is where the center of the beam is, not its edges, and unusual temperature profiles bend it. Radar siting from the NWS WSR-88D network, station positions from the New Mexico observing network as of this build.
Forecasts near Peralta
- Bosque Farms, NM2 mi
- Los Lunas, NM6 mi
- Belen, NM8 mi
- Rio Communities, NM13 mi
- Albuquerque, NM19 mi
- Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM23 mi
- Corrales, NM29 mi
- Rio Rancho, NM32 mi
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