Blog updated at 8:20 AM MST.
Today's Weather.
Another beautiful day is on tap for southeastern New Mexico today. Sunny skies and light winds along with afternoon high temperatures in the upper 60's to near 70 are expected.
Thanksgiving Day Forecast.
Southeastern New Mexico.
Thanksgiving Day will be rather nice across SE NM this year. Mid and high level clouds will increase throughout the day. We are still expecting to see our afternoon high temperatures to climb up into the mid 70's. The strong upper-level storm depicted above will begin its trek
eastward towards the state into Thanksgiving night.
As the upper-level storm approaches the area, it will begin to draw some of the remnant moisture from Hurricane Kenneth northeastward into Arizona, and New Mexico Thanksgiving Day into Friday.
Thanksgiving Night Into Saturday Forecast.
Our upper-level storm will move slowly eastward towards NM Thanksgiving night. By sunrise Friday morning the closed upper-level low will be nearing the southwestern corner of the state. It will then move slowly eastward across the area, and into West Texas by Saturday morning.
Valid At 5 AM MST Friday Morning.
Southern New Mexico.
Light to moderate rains will move into southwestern and southern New Mexico Thanksgiving afternoon. These will spread northward and eastward Thanksgiving night into Friday morning. Heavy rainfall will be possible across at least parts of southern New Mexico Thanksgiving night.
Some locations may pick up an inch or more of rainfall along with the possibility of localized flooding.
Southeastern Plains.
Light rain showers should move into southeastern New Mexico Thanksgiving night, especially after midnight. Light to moderate rains should envelope the entire area by Friday morning. Rainfall totals of around .25" to .50" will be possible across the lower elevations of the plains.
Heavier amounts could fall in a few places, especially over and near the mountains. Our chances for rain are 30% - 50% Thanksgiving night into Friday. There could even be a few thunderstorms roaming around the area Thanksgiving night into Friday.
By late Friday afternoon the rain showers will be moving eastward into Texas, as a Pacific cold front moves in from the west. Skies will be clearing and temperatures will be falling behind the cold front. Our high temps on Friday will be in the low-mid 60's.
A stronger polar cold front will sweep southward into the area Saturday morning. Very windy conditions are likely along, and behind this front as it pushes southward. Northwesterly to northerly winds may gust up to or over 50 mph. Our highs on Saturday will only be near
50 to the low 50's.
Sacramento Mountains.
Snow levels will be high on Thanksgiving Day, and will generally be between 9,000 - 10,000'. As the upper-level storm moves across the area on Friday, snow levels will drop throughout the day. By Friday afternoon the snow level will have dropped down to around 7,000'.
Moderate to heavy snow may fall over the Sacramento Mountains for a brief time Friday, which could at least produce a couple inches of snowfall. Higher snowfall totals will likely fall at Ski Apache...in fact I think that they could end up a decent snowfall event out of this storm. I would not be surprised if they end up with close to a foot of snow.
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