NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – As a storm system approaches from the Southwest, air-masses will collide and shift this weekend. Despite some passing clouds with light showers around the Metro this morning, it’s mostly rain-free, for now, with light winds, and still dry air for most, except for the far-southeast corner of New Mexico once again. […]
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – As a storm system approaches from the Southwest, air-masses will collide and shift this weekend. Despite some passing clouds with light showers around the Metro this morning, it’s mostly rain-free, for now, with light winds, and still dry air for most, except for the far-southeast corner of New Mexico once again. The calm conditions have allowed for radiational cooling to really take place again, with more-stable air aloft, for now. Low-level moisture is lingering in Southeast New Mexico with temperatures in the 60s and low 70s, while dew-points have dropped even more elsewhere with below-freezing temperatures in the high elevations, while mostly everywhere else is ranging from the 30s to the lower 60s.
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After conditions warm up above normal again as temperatures rise across the region from the morning school commute into the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s by the afternoon, an influx of sub-tropical moisture from the south, along with daytime heating, will lead to more-widespread showers, then thunderstorms, across the eastern half of New Mexico. The Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the Sandia’s potentially, the Northeastern Highlands later on, the Lincoln National Forest eventually, as well as a good swath of the Pecos River Valley this evening, will most likely experience the easterly-northeasterly moving batches of storms, starting from later this morning, as well as throughout the early overnight hours, with some isolated flooding possible. Within the areas that will likely rain, some hail, erratic wind gusts, frequent lightning strikes, and rapidly-dropping temperatures are possible.
Stronger southwesterly upper-level winds will partially come down toward the surface today, and as the low pressure system passes on through to the north tomorrow, areas that are dry will be drier, except for the Four Corners with some rain, as well as snow in the San Juan Mountains, as areas that are wet will be wetter, with stronger wind gusts in-between along the Rio Grande Valley. Near-to-above-normal high temperatures will ensue in the short term with near-normal low temperatures before the fall-like weather ensues in fuller force for the first weekend of fall, as well as into next week.