NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Isolated showers with rumbles of thunder are present with even more-humid air in East New Mexico with east-gap winds a bit gusty after yesterday’s storms formed. Way-above-freezing temperatures are still once again confined to most of the higher peaks of the Northern Mountains with valley floor locations mostly starting off in the upper 40s or in the 50s, while elsewhere is mostly starting off in the high 50s to the low-to-mid 70s.
Persistent west-northwesterly winds aloft with a high pressure system drifting to the Southwest will combine to squeeze out more moisture once again in the form of more rounds of Monsoonal thunderstorms across the Rio Grande Valley through the higher elevations into East New Mexico, including parts of Southwest New Mexico. Despite the clouds, dry air at the surface will remain for many out in far-western areas, but because of the increase in moisture elsewhere, temperatures will be near normal for most with high temperatures in the 70s, 80s and lower 90s. Flash flooding will be more widespread with gustier conditions and some hail as well.
Moisture has moved in, but the pendulum swing pattern of muggy mornings out east with breezy easterly winds shifting to southwesterly drier winds in the afternoons forming storms to the east will still continue though. Wetter conditions are ahead with the next push of Monsoon moisture arriving in fuller force briefly while cooling things down for more areas today until conditions briefly heat up while drying out for the next couple of days despite lingering clouds with spottier storms.
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