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Thunderstorms returned to SE NM yesterday afternoon. One of these became severe six miles south of Seven Rivers at 4:45 PM MDT. However, to my knowledge no severe weather reports were received on this storm. It did produce some heavy rainfall and a Urban and small stream flood advisory was issued on it by the Midland National Weather Service Office at 5:11 PM MDT. The weak upper level low that was responsible for producing this latest round of thunderstorms was located near Hobbs early this morning. This feature will drift slowly westward today...giving us another round of scattered afternoon thunderstorms across the SE NM Plains. A couple of these may produce locally heavy rainfall once again. The weekend looks hot with afternoon high temps climbing up to around 100 . Heavier Rainfall Totals From Yesterdays T-Storms- Paduca Raws-Near The WIPP Site 1.93" Queen Raws 1.11" Carlsbad Airport 1.02" Dog Canyon Raws .85" Indian Basin Gas Plant-20 WNW Carlsbad .64"

Heavy rainfall fell across the local area the end of last week, continuing into this past weekend. This July is shaping up to go down in the history books as being one of the top ten wettest in parts of SE NM. Our chances of seeing additional heavy rainfall will increase over the area tomorrow and Wednesday. The remnants of a Tutt low now located in Texas, will move westward into New Mexico over the next couple of days, enhancing our chances for additional rainfall. Latest Local 5 Day Rainfall Totals- (Updated At 7:00 AM MDT Monday Morning) 4.9 NE Cloudcroft 4.80" Cloudcroft Climate 4.31" Roswell #1Portable Raws-NE of Fort Stanton 4.13" Bowl Raws-1/2 Mile N Guadalupe Pk 3.97" Pinery Raws-Pine Springs 3.72" Mayhill Raws 3.61" Queen Raws 3.53" 5.4 W Cloudcroft 3.42" 16 ESE Cloudcroft-Mayhill 3.41" 0.4 ESE Cloudcroft 3.32" 33.3 WSW Carlsbad-Queen 3.25" 2.3 S Cloudcroft 3.18" Sirrea Blanca Regional Airport 3.15"

Local Rainfall Totals So Far This July & Year. (July 1st -27th) & (Jan 1st -July 27th) Chaves & Eddy Co's Updated 9:00 AM Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Chaves Co NM Roswell Airport July 2.47" Year 9.91" 0.3 SSW Roswell July 2.55" Year 9.55" 3.5 WNW Roswell July 4.40" Year 9.06" Elk Climate July 3.09" Year 9.05" 4.1 NNE Roswell July 2.17" Year 7.94" 7.6 NNW Roswell July 2.63" Year 6.58" Long Term Rainfall Averages For (July) & (Jan-Jul)- Roswell Airport (1920-2009) July 1.84" Jan-Jul 6.53" Elk Climate (1895-2009) July 3.05" Jan-Jul 8.03" Eddy Co NM 33.3 WSW Carlsbad-Queen July 9.06" Year 21.81" 0.9 NE Lakewood July 8.00" Year 15.12" 3.1 SSE Carlsbad July 6.84" Year 13.36" Carlsbad Climate July 6.81" Year 12.25" 2.1 NNW Downtown Carlsbad July 6.12" Year 11.90" 15.5 S Artesia July 6.56" Year 11.71" 1.1 NNE

I have been thinking about what has transpired with our local weather here in SE NM over June. True to form it has been interesting to say the least. Lets take a look back and see what has happened. June started off hot, and to be a little more exact, record hot in a lot of places. Listed below are some of the new daily record high temperature records that were established locally. Station Id/Lat/Long/Type/Stn Id #/New Daily Record/Old Daily Record/Years Of Record June 4th- CARLSBAD FAA AP, NM (KCNM) 32.34 -104.26 ASOS 291475 105.0°F 103.0°F 1975 69 ELK, NM 32.92 -105.34 COOP 292865 93.0°F 92.0°F 1896 59 RUIDOSO, NM 33.36 -105.67 COOP 297649 90.0°F 88.0°F 1956 59 June 5th- CARLSBAD FAA AP, NM (KCNM) 32.34 -104.26 ASOS 291475 111.0°F 108.0°F 1990 69 ROSWELL INDUSTRIAL AP, NM (KROW) 33.31 -104.51 ASOS 297610 110.0°F 106.0°F 1990 61 ARTESIA 6S, NM 32.75 -104.38 COOP 290600 105.0°F 101.0°F 2006 99 HOBBS, NM 32.73 -103.13 COOP 294026 104.0°F 104.0°F 1990 85 CARLSBAD, NM 32.35 -