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September 25, 2025. Squam River Covered Bridge - Ashland, NH. On Our Last Day in NH, I Took This Photo In The Pouring Rain.  Welcome to October...one of my favorite months of the year in New Mexico. Albuquerque International Balloon Festival. (Oct 4-12, 2025). Click On This Link For The Latest NWS Forecast For Albuquerque. Our overnight lows are gradually coming down compared to a month ago. But they are forecast to be some 5 to 11 degrees above normal across much of the state tonight through the first of next week.  Our daytime highs are forecast to remain some 4 to 10 degrees above normal across southeastern New Mexico today through next Monday. Meanwhile, the western and northern sections of New Mexico will cool some 2 to 4 degrees below normal on Saturday and Sunday behind a Pacific cold front.  Friday and Saturday still looks windy across northeastern New Mexico as south and southwest winds are forecast to gust up to around 30-40 mph.  Next week's weather still ...

September 25, 2025.  Meredith, New Hampshire.  Warming Up This Week - Changes Again Next Weekend. My wife and I recently spent time in New England, visiting family and friends. I didn't think that the timing of our visit would coincide with their annual fall leaf color changes. I was wrong. We got to see the beginning of this change, and it was beautiful, as you can tell by my cover photo.   Our annual summer monsoon has come to an end...right on time, today, the last day of September. Over the past five days, most locations in the state measured rainfall. Thankfully, excessive rainfall and catastrophic flash flooding failed to materialize in the Ruidoso area.  A few areas ended up with some rather impressive totals. Some of the heavier totals are listed below: Hondo NMCC 3.75" Sandia Park CoCoRaHS 3.6 ESE 3.69" Tijeras  CoCoRaHS  4.2 NE 3.51" Sandia Park  CoCoRaHS  0.5 S 3.15" Sandia Park  CoCoRaHS  2.4 ENE 3.08" Edgewood CoCoRaHS ...

  August 30, 2025. Carlsbad, New Mexico. Looking Northeast From C-Hill. Blog Updated At 9:28 AM MDT, Sunday, Sept 28, 2025.  Marginally Severe T-Storms - Flash Flood Watches. At 7:30 AM MDT this Sunday morning, a line of thunderstorms stretched from near Alamogordo northeast to near Las Vegas. This line of storms was moving to the northeast. Additional t-storms were located from near Deming northeast to Hatch, and west of El Paso.  Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms are forecast to continue today into tonight across the southern and eastern halves of the state. Additional lines of t-storms may develop later today. Some training activity may also form...one storm after another over the same location. Flood Watches are in effect for parts of southern, south-central, and southeastern New Mexico today through this evening. Moderate to heavy rainfall is forecast in these areas. Rainfall rates in excess of 1-2" per hour are expected with the stronger t-storms. By ...

Artesia, New Mexico. Saturday, September 13, 2025 Flash Flooding On Normaly Dray Eagle Draw. Blog Updated At 4:36 PM MDT, Monday, September 15, 2025.  A Few Isolated T-Storms In SE NM This Afternoon.  A number of locations picked up some rather hefty rainfall totals since this past Friday in a swath from southwestern New Mexico northeast through eastern New Mexico.  So far this month, the highest month-to-date rainfall total I can find is the Rowe NNW CoCoRaHS Station, which has recorded 4.73". The highest year-to-date precipitation total that I can find is 28.53" recorded at the Western Springs HADS Near Elk (11,122'), NW of Las Vegas in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The Sapello CoCoRaHS Station, located north of Las Vegas in San Miguel County, is reporting 25.38" so far this year. Not far behind is the Ski Apache CoCoRaHS Station with 24.60".  Some of the heaviest three-day totals (Friday through Sunday) are listed below: Artesia - Public Report on Ray St 2....

August 17, 2025. Northeast Of Cloudcroft, NM. Blog Updated At 3:30 PM MDT Thursday, Sept 11, 2025. Fall in New Mexico is a fun and beautiful time of the year. Weather-wise, we are slowly easing into it as the summer death ridge gets weaker with time and as more upper-level lows slam into it. Gradually, our daytime high temps are getting cooler, and so are our nights.  It is bowling ball season once again as strong short-wave troughs of low pressure dive southeastward out of the Gulf of Alaska into the Rockies and Great Basin. A closed mid-upper level low centered near Sacramento, California, early this morning will continue moving southeast today into Saturday. By Sunday, it will begin to open up, weaken somewhat as it swings across northern New Mexico and Central Colorado.  Disturbances aloft will rotate across the region today into the weekend. Southwesterly flow aloft will drag monsoonal moisture back into the state today, mainly into the western half of the state, and on F...

August 17, 2025. Near Elk, New Mexico. Blog Updated At 4:55 PM MDT Monday, Sept 8, 2025.  Remnant tropical moisture from former Hurricane Lorena is long since gone, and we've entered a drying-out and warming-up period here in the Land of Enchantment. Some central and northern locations fared pretty well as far as storm totals go from Friday through Sunday. I managed to squeeze out a dissapointing .12" here at our home in Carlsbad, and most of southeastern New Mexico had less than this since last Friday.  A couple of remote automated rain gauges near Sierra Blanca Peak west of Ruidoso picked up 2" to 2.5" of rain since last Friday, while the Ruidoso, Mescalero, Timberon, and Mayhill areas picked up anywhere from .25" to 1.00". The Runyan Ranches NMCC Station east of Elk in southwest Chaves County (corrected) measured 1.17".  The South Radium Springs NMCC Station northwest of Leasburg measured 2.17". The CoCoRaHS Stations listed below all measured 2...

August 17, 2025. Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation. Between Ruidoso And Cloudcroft, NM. Blog Updated At 2:05 PM MDT Thursday - New Graphics/Flood Watch Added.  How Wet? Former Hurricane Lorena has been downgraded to a Tropical Storm this morning by the NHC. Her remnant moisture is already streaming northward and northeastward into the region. In southern and southeastern New Mexico, we are seeing this in the form of mid-high-level clouds. Lorena is forecast to continue weakening today into Saturday as she slowly approaches the central Baja Peninsula.  A strong southward-moving cold front is forecast to enter northeastern New Mexico Friday morning and backdoor its way southward and westward into Saturday. This front should arrive in southeastern New Mexico late Friday night or early Saturday morning. A much cooler airmass will accompany the frontal passage. This will knock our daytime high temps across the area down 10-20 degrees below normal this weekend.  Between the c...

August 28, 2025. Pulling Unit - Lakewood, NM. Latest 24-Hour Rainfall Totals. Good rainy Sunday morning. Some of us lucked out over the past three days and picked up some decent rainfall totals. Others not so lucky. Please note that the 15.00" being reported by the Twin Rivers Dam 10 miles southwest of Roswell on the New Mexico MesoWest maps below is incorrect. This HADS site has been out of whack going on two years now and constantly reports erroneous rainfall data. Here are some of the heavier rainfall totals from overnight into this morning as of 7 AM MDT: Lake Arthur West Jackson/Austin Rd 2.90". Lake Arthur PWS 2:29" South side of Roswell 2.00" East Lake Arthur 1.91" Lake Arthur CoCoRaHS 2.5 ESE 1.44" Roswell Portable Raws Near Caprock 1.26" Roswell CoCoRaHS 17.4 N 1.20" Runyan Ranches 1.12" Roswell CoCoRaHS 19.3 N 1.02" Roswell PWS Cotton Rd 1.00" Roswell PWS Milky Way Rd 1.00" Cottonwood PWS N of Artesia .97" Lovin...

August 17, 2025. Rio Ruidoso Flash Flooding. Overnight Rainfall Very Heavy In E & SE NM! Numerous thunderstorms broke out over eastern and southeastern New Mexico yesterday afternoon and continued overnight into early this morning. These dumped heavy rains in some areas, and radar estimated 3" to 6" fell west and northeast of Lovington. These rainfall estimates may be a tad high since a couple of these thunderstorms were severe and produced large hail. Hail often causes radars to overestimate rainfall totals since it has a high reflectivity signature.    Selected heavier 24-hour measured rainfall totals include: Lovington CoCoRaHS 13.2 Miles NNE 2.82".  Lovington CoCoRaHS 3 Miles NNE 2.68".  Denver City, TX West Texas Mesonet 2.57".  Portales NMCC 2.50". Elida CoCoRaHS 5.7 Miles W 2.30".  Davis PWS Near Maljamar 2.11".  PWS  Lovingtoon 2.02". Tatum West Texas Mesonet 1.88".  Portales CoCoRaHS 5.1 SSW 1.85".  Dora NMCC 1.75...

August 22, 2025. Friday Night Lights. Ralph Bowyer Stadium - Carlsbad, NM. A Cooler & Wet Labor Day Weekend Ahead. Friday night lights, Sunday afternoon football, the smell of green chile roasting, soon the Aspens changing, along with cooler temps. All point to the beginning of the meteorological fall, this Labor Day. A great time of the year to be living in New Mexico.  A weak cold front swept into the eastern half of the state Monday and Tuesday, but has since pulled back to the east and northeast of us as a warm front. A second cold front is forecast to backdoor into the state Thursday into Friday. Bringing with it another round of cooler temps and increasing chances for rain for most of the state. Rich southerly monsoonal moisture, along with a moist easterly upslope flow behind the cold front, combined with several upper-level disturbances passing overhead, will combine to produce a wet Labor Day weekend and holiday over much of the state. Northwesterly flow aloft may prod...