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December 29, 2024. Sierra Blanca Peak West Of Ruidoso, NM. What Is Wrong With This Picture? Sierra Blanca Peak west of Ruidoso, New Mexico, is almost snow-free, which paints a pretty good picture of how dry, mild, and snowless this winter has been thus far. When will this change? Maybe in about a week or ten days? Just how cold, how much snow falls, and where is still highly questionable.    Meanwhile, social media has gone nuts with posts about the potential of a major arctic intrusion into the nation in about a week. Some have claimed that this will be the worst arctic outbreak since 1994. Really? The hype around this is insane. What bothers me is how many people are jumping on the bandwagon all claiming or predicting a winter doomsday. Honestly, it's ridiculous, and a lot of those who are doing this know better. There isn't a forecast model out there that is accurate 14 to 16 days out in time. I'm not saying that a significant intrusion of arctic air isn't possible n...

November 28, 2024. Foggy In The Mayhill Area. La Niña In Full Control Of  Our Winter This Year. We would be hard pressed to find a more boring, uneventful, relatively calm early start to our New Mexico winter than what we've had for weeks now. Outside of the major winter storm, blizzard, that hammered parts of the state during the first week of November it has been unusually calm weather-wise. Especially here in the southeastern plains and south-central mountains (Sac's).  This isn't going to change anytime soon it appears. Long-range forecast models are not picking up on any major winter storms headed our way over the next week to ten days.  More bad news for the ski industry and the snow pack.   A passing storm across northern New Mexico this coming weekend into next Monday will produce breezy to windy conditions across parts of the state. Along with abnormally warm temps across the area. Highs on Monday may approach 80F here in the Pecos Valley.  This pattern...

November 28, 2024. Cloudcroft Ski Resort.  Real-Time Regional Temperatures (RTMA). (At 3:30 PM MST Monday, December 9, 2024.  Real-Time Regional Apparent Temperatures (RTMA). (At 3:30 PM MST Monday, December 9, 2024.  Surface Map Forecast. Valid At 5 PM MST Monday, December 9, 2024.