Climate

Like every other place in New Mexico, Alamo Canyon Ranch can be windy.  When on the peaks, it's worse.  The location is idea of for wind power, and would make an excellent wind farm. 

The climate zone is semi-arid within a  transition of high desert foothills to mountain land. Average annual precipitation is 14 inches to include snow. 

Most days are full sun with clear star bright nights.   The sky at night is amazingly clear, to the point where you think you are watching a science fiction movie.  It is perfect for astronomy.

Temperatures are mild seldom exceeding the mid 90s for summer highs with pleasant cool night temperatures. Winter night temperatures will fall below 32F from November through March with day time temperatures typically rising into the pleasant 50s and 60s. 

The climate is ideal for year round outdoor activity.

During the summer, it can be attacked by fierce electrical storms.  One of the drawbacks of being within the canyon during a storm is that there is no place to hide from lightening.  In 2011, a lightening strike fueled one of the worst fires in the county's history.  As in anywhere in the desert Southwest, be well aware of run-off, and flash floods.  There is a location near the entry, a creek, which regularly overflows, obscuring the main canyon road.  In the summer of 2014, the canyon and vicinity received 8 inches of rain in less than an hour.

It is beautiful in the snow.