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Monday, December 30, 2024

Peak Wind Gusts Today - Next Weeks Cold?

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 next week and beyond but even the forecast models don't agree exactly where and to what extent the cold will be. 

No doubt a potentially significant pattern change is coming...with trends toward much colder and stormier areas of the country east of the Rockies. This is not abnormal. It is after all the end of December with January fast approaching. But will this Arctic blast be as recording-breaking as many are hyping? Maybe, maybe not. It's way too early to know.  

For New Mexico, especially the eastern one-half of the state this morning's 5 AM MST (12Z/12 GMT) forecast model runs illustrate the uncertainty. Model forecasts a week out or more are not considered to be reliable.  

for example, the Euro forecast model has the arctic air mass nosing into southeastern New Mexico by next Monday (a week away) with temps falling the rest of the week.

The U.S. forecast model (GFS) keeps the coldest arctic air mass well to our east. 

The Canadian forecast model (GEM) delays the intrusion of arctic air into the local area until the middle or end of next week (10 days out at least). But also shows the potential for snow over a good part of the area where as the GFS and ECMWF models don't. 

So no I'm not getting too excited about this. I won't until I see if and when the models come into better agreement in about a week from now. 

Historically the first two weeks of January are generally the coldest of our winter season. But not always. With all-time record coldest daily low temps across southeastern New Mexico and nearby areas all falling below 0F. However, most of our local coldest all-time record lows have occurred in February. 

Thursday, December 26, 2024

It Can't Get Much More Boring Than This.


November 28, 2024.
Foggy In The Mayhill Area.

La NiƱa 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 already has me worried for the rest of the winter and spring. Unless major pattern changes occur we may be facing a very warm, dry, and windy late winter, and spring this year. Which would only make conditions ripe for dangerous high wind, blowing dust, and fire weather events. 

Monday, December 9, 2024

Strong Cold Front Brings Some Of The Coldest Temps Of The Season.

November 28, 2024.
Cloudcroft Ski Resort. 

(At 3:30 PM MST Monday, December 9, 2024. 


Real-Time Regional Apparent Temperatures (RTMA).
(At 3:30 PM MST Monday, December 9, 2024. 


Valid At 5 PM MST Monday, December 9, 2024. 

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