Raton, NM Weather Forecast
Colfax County, New Mexico
Seven-day outlook
33–66°F across the weekThe week runs between 33° and 66°, with today the warmest day of it. The second half leans cooling, and Wednesday is the coolest day in it. Sunday is the wettest day, peaking near 63%. 4 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 Raton forecast
Raton sits at 36.8850°N, 104.4396°W in Colfax 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
- Colfax County
- Coordinates
- 36.8850°N, 104.4396°W
- Population
- 5,978 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 7.961 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Raton, 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 Raton?
The nearest Doppler radar is KPUX (Pueblo, CO), 110 miles to the N. 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 Raton its center is about 11,100 ft above ground. At that range the beam overshoots the layer where severe weather organizes. The radar is describing the middle of the storm, not its base , which is why a warning for Raton can look unsupported on the mosaic and still be right. Trust the warning over the picture.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is KRTN · Raton/Crews Fld on the ASOS/AWOS network, 11 miles away. Near enough to be representative on most days, though a summer thunderstorm can soak one and miss the other entirely.
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.
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