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January 9, 2026. Stormy Winter Skies. West Of Hope, New Mexico.  Several years ago, during the middle of the very heated and controversial climate change propaganda and debates, a group of respected scientists publicly came out with this statement: "It's the sun, stupid." That may offend some, but to this day it remains one of my all-time favorite quotes.  The sun and its associated solar cycles drive the planet's climate and weather. Volcanoes also play a major role, and the sun plays a major role in how and when they erupt. When they reach the major or historical eruption stage, they alter the planets short term weather and long term climate cycles.  The solar cycles, especially the solar minima cycles and grand solar minimums have drastically altered our weather and climate throughout history. Most notably during the last Little Ice Age. Many believe we are due or overdue for another such event.  Add to this mix the sun's effects on the world's ocean temper...
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Our Weather Calms Down For Now.

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February 12, 2023
 Looking West At Virga.
 Near Carrizozo, New Mexico.


A blinding dust storm with brown out conditions reportedly contributed to a massive pile up (18+ vehicles involved) in Glassock County on Hwy 137 southeast of Midland yesterday afternoon.

Our Weather Calms Down For Now.

Snowfall totals over the Sacramento mountains from this latest winter storm includes 4.5" at the Cloudcroft CoCoRaHS Station located 2.3 miles south of town. 1.8" at the CoCoRaHS Station located 1.8 miles southwest of town. And 2.2" at the CoCoRaHS Station located 5.8 miles east-northeast of La Luz. 

Scattered power outages occured in the Carlsbad and Loving areas Thursday afternoon with several reports of downed utility and power lines from the high winds. A Dust Storm Warning was issued for far southeastern Eddy County, Lea County, and much of the Permian Basin. 

The Cloudcroft National Weather Service (NWS) Climate Co-Op Station measured 4.5" of new snowfall bringing their seasonal total (Oct 1st - March 3rd) to 58.1". 

After round after round potent winter storms hammering the area our weather will calm down for the near term. The exception being on Sunday when a disturbance to our northwest passes by kicking up the winds. Westerly winds will be the strongest across the Capitan, Sacramento, and Guadalupe mountains with guts in the 50 mph range...perhaps a little higher. 

Our next weather event to impact our neck of the woods comes in the middle to the end of next week when a modified arctic cold front pushes south into the eastern and southeastern plains, and another winter storm heads out way. Our high temperatures ahead of the modified arctic cold front will climb up to near 80º Tuesday and Wednesday over the southeastern plains. 


Valid Sunday, March 5, 2023.

Selected Reported Local Peak Wind Gusts.

Guadalupe Pass ASOS 89 mph.

Salinas Peak Raws - White Sands Missile Range 79 mph.
Cloudcroft New Village Hardware PWS 73 mph.
Pine Springs West TX MesoNet Station 72 mph.
Carlsbad Airport ASOS 71 mph.

San Augustin Pass - 1.6 Miles East of Organ 67 mph.
Bowl Raws 63 mph.
Loving MesoNet Station 60 mph.

El Paso Airport ASOS 56 mph.
Bat Draw Raws 56 mph.
Deming Airport ASOS 55 mph.
Hobbs Airport AWOS 55 mph.
Roswell Airport ASOS 54 mph.
Dell City West TX MesoNet Station 53 mph.
Tatum PWS 52 mph.

Artesia Airport AWOS 47 mph.



PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
837 PM CST THU MAR 2 2023

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0134 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 5 S PINE SPRINGS        31.82N 104.81W
03/02/2023  M89 MPH          CULBERSON          TX   ASOS

            GUADALUPE PASS ASOS.

0758 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 7 WSW MCDONALD OBSERVAT 30.65N 104.14W
03/02/2023  M79 MPH          JEFF DAVIS         TX   PARK/FOREST SRVC

            RAWS STATION WDPT2 WOLF DEN DMP.

0502 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST PINE SPRINGS            31.89N 104.81W
03/02/2023  M72 MPH          CULBERSON          TX   MESONET



1153 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 5 SW CARLSBAD           32.35N 104.30W
03/02/2023  M71 MPH          EDDY               NM   ASOS



0318 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 3 N MARFA               30.35N 104.02W
03/02/2023  M70 MPH          PRESIDIO           TX   AWOS



0419 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 5 SW SAINT LAWRENCE     31.65N 101.60W
03/02/2023  M67 MPH          REAGAN             TX   MESONET



0357 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 1 WNW BIG LAKE          31.20N 101.47W
03/02/2023  M64 MPH          REAGAN             TX   MESONET



1238 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 3 NNW PINE SPRINGS      31.93N 104.83W
03/02/2023  M63 MPH          CULBERSON          TX   PARK/FOREST SRVC

            RAWS STATION GDBT2 THE BOWL.

0117 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 2 NW FORT STOCKTON      30.91N 102.91W
03/02/2023  M63 MPH          PECOS              TX   ASOS



0232 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 5 NE ODESSA             31.91N 102.31W
03/02/2023  M63 MPH          ECTOR              TX   ASOS



0340 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 8 SW MIDLAND INTERNATIO 31.86N 102.29W
03/02/2023  M63 MPH          MIDLAND            TX   ASOS



0355 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 1 W BIG LAKE            31.19N 101.48W
03/02/2023  M63 MPH          REAGAN             TX   AWOS



0449 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 19 SW MARATHON          30.03N 103.47W
03/02/2023  M62 MPH          BREWSTER           TX   PARK/FOREST SRVC

            CORRECTS PREVIOUS NON-TSTM WND GST REPORT
            FROM 19 SW MARATHON. RAWS STATION EMNT2
            ELEPHANT MTN WMA.

1241 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 3 ENE VAN HORN          31.06N 104.79W
03/02/2023  M61 MPH          CULBERSON          TX   MESONET



0135 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 2 SW PECOS              31.39N 103.52W
03/02/2023  M61 MPH          REEVES             TX   ASOS



0553 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 3 NW WINK               31.79N 103.19W
03/02/2023  M61 MPH          WINKLER            TX   ASOS



0304 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 5 W DRYDEN              30.05N 102.20W
03/02/2023  M60 MPH          TERRELL            TX   ASOS



1255 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 5 N PRESIDIO            29.63N 104.36W
03/02/2023  M59 MPH          PRESIDIO           TX   AWOS



0201 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 1 SSW MCCAMEY           31.12N 102.23W
03/02/2023  M59 MPH          UPTON              TX   MESONET



0242 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 2 E ANDREWS             32.32N 102.52W
03/02/2023  M59 MPH          ANDREWS            TX   MESONET



0120 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 2 N COYANOSA            31.27N 103.07W
03/02/2023  M58 MPH          PECOS              TX   MESONET



0129 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST CASTOLON                29.14N 103.51W
03/02/2023  M58 MPH          BREWSTER           TX   MESONET



0257 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 1 NNW CRANE             31.41N 102.36W
03/02/2023  M58 MPH          CRANE              TX   MESONET



Public Information Statement
National Weather Service El Paso TX/Santa Teresa NM
652 PM MST Thu Mar 2 2023

...HIGHEST WIND REPORTS FOR THE PAST 24 HOURS...

Location                     Speed     Time/Date       Lat/Lon
Salinas Peak (WSMR)          79 MPH    0515 AM 03/02   33.30N/106.53W
San Agustin Pass 1.6 E Organ 67 MPH    1230 PM 03/02   32.43N/106.57W
Sierra Blanca (TTU/WTM)      61 MPH    0104 PM 03/02   31.16N/105.35W
Brillo West                  61 MPH    1050 PM 03/01   32.96N/106.54W
WSMR Museum                  59 MPH    0655 PM 03/01   32.38N/106.48W
Burro Mountain RAWS          57 MPH    0159 AM 03/02   32.67N/108.54W
Condron Field (WSMR)         57 MPH    0705 AM 03/02   32.34N/106.41W
El Paso International Airpor 56 MPH    0606 AM 03/02   31.82N/106.38W
WSMR Apache                  56 MPH    0645 AM 03/02   32.63N/106.39W
Deming ASOS                  55 MPH    0124 PM 03/02   32.27N/107.72W
WSMR Main Post               54 MPH    0820 PM 03/01   32.37N/106.49W
Dell City (TTU/WTM)          53 MPH    1022 AM 03/02   31.95N/105.20W
Globe                        53 MPH    0325 AM 03/02   32.38N/106.47W
WSMR Building 1830           52 MPH    0855 AM 03/02   32.37N/106.47W
WSMR C-Station               51 MPH    0645 AM 03/02   32.36N/106.38W
South Franklin Peak          49 MPH    0523 AM 03/02   31.86N/106.49W
Las Cruces AWOS              49 MPH    0215 PM 03/02   32.27N/106.92W
North Lordsburg Playa        49 MPH    1245 AM 03/02   32.25N/108.95W
WSMR LC-32                   49 MPH    0700 AM 03/02   32.41N/106.40W
Lordsburg Playa I10 MP9 (NMD 48 MPH    1235 AM 03/02   32.27N/108.90W
Cdrrc Camp Location          48 MPH    0525 AM 03/02   32.58N/106.87W
Chiricahua Desert Museum     47 MPH    0150 AM 03/02   31.87N/109.02W
Butterfield Trail Ranch      47 MPH    0144 PM 03/02   32.26N/107.24W
Biggs Field AWOS             47 MPH    0557 AM 03/02   31.85N/106.38W
T-or-C ASOS                  47 MPH    1033 PM 03/01   33.23N/107.27W
Lordsburg Playa I10 MP12 (NM 47 MPH    1225 AM 03/02   32.29N/108.87W
Lordsburg Playa I10 MP13 (NM 47 MPH    0145 AM 03/02   32.32N/108.81W
Lordsburg Playa I10 MP7 (NMD 47 MPH    0145 AM 03/02   32.25N/108.93W
Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland  47 MPH    0935 PM 03/01   32.53N/106.81W
WSMR Pony                    47 MPH    0750 AM 03/02   32.87N/106.49W
Lc-35 North                  47 MPH    0705 AM 03/02   32.44N/106.34W
El Paso NE - K5IA            46 MPH    0655 AM 03/02   31.91N/106.41W
South Radium Springs         46 MPH    0130 PM 03/02   32.48N/106.90W
Las Cruces                   45 MPH    1105 AM 03/02   32.36N/106.72W
Santa Teresa NWS RSOIS       45 MPH    0230 PM 03/02   31.87N/106.70W
Delta Clipper                45 MPH    0705 AM 03/02   32.90N/106.41W

Observations are collected from a variety of sources with varying
equipment and exposures. We thank all volunteer weather observers
for their dedication. Not all data listed are considered official.

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