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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...

August 17, 2025. Rainy Day In The Sac's.  Clouds Topping Mtn's East Of Cloudcroft. Update At 11:21 AM MDT Friday. A Flood Watch is now in effect for the Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains-East Slopes Sangre de Cristo Mountains-Northeast Highlands- FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... With high pressure aloft centered over the Four Corners Region this morning, a slightly drier airmass has settled in over parts of the state, including southeastern New Mexico. This has allowed our overnight low temps to drop a little closer to seasonal norms. The Angel Fire Airport recorded a low this morning of 33. Most of the rest of the state reported overnight lows in the 50's and 60's with a few 70-degree readings. With high pressure dominating our weather today into the weekend, rain showers and t-storm activity will be confined to the western and northern one-third of the state.  Big changes are on their way, starting late this weekend across northern and northeaste...

July 28, 2025. Dirt Road To Nowhere. Northwest Of Carlsbad, NM. Updated At 1:55 PM MDT Saturday, August 16, 2025.  Monsoonal T-Storms Continue. We are halfway through August, and gradually, we are losing daylight. By the end of the month, most of New Mexico will have lost about an hour of daylight. Most of the state will have cooled off roughly a degree or two by the end of the month when considering average daily high/low temperatures. Our meteorological fall begins September 1st, and I don't know about you, but I'm ready. Fall is my favorite time of the year in New Mexico.  From mid-August through the first of October, on average, is when most of us see our wettest time of the year...some in the state start in July. This is prime season for flash flooding, too. Many of the state's worst flash flood events occur during this time frame. Thankfully, the remnant tropical moisture from tropical disturbance AL98 I talked about in yesterday's blog, located off the Brownsvill...

July 31, 2025. Looking Southeast From Hobbs. Dissipating T-Storm With Cumulonimbus Mammatus (CBMAM) Clouds.  The Rain Is Back. Another surge of monsoonal moisture northward out of Mexico is underway this morning. This will continue at least into the middle of next week. Increasing clouds, widely scattered to scattered showers and t-storms, and slightly cooler temps will be focused from the east slopes of the central mountain chain westward today. Scattered to numerous showers and t-storms will overspread more of the state this weekend into the first of next week. As has been the case all summer, once again the threat for brun scar flash flooding will be high today into next Tuesday. This includes the Hermit Peak/Calf Canyon burn scar in northern New Mexico and the Ruidoso burn scar complex.  Isolated and localized flash flooding will be possible elsewhere across the state whenever and wherever t-storms produce locally heavy rains in a short period of time.  There is a fly...

August 4, 2025.  Lea County Sunset. Halfway Between Carlsbad & Hobbs. Low temperatures across New Mexico this morning were above normal in many places. Numerous locations in southern, eastern, and southeastern New Mexico reported overnight lows in the 70's. While the Angel Fire Airport ASOS reported a chilly low of 34.  Friday afternoons highs were once again hot underneath a stout upper-level ridge of high pressure that has been centered over the state. The Roswell Airport ASOS reported a high of 106, which was one degree short of their record high for the date of 107 in 2011. Heat Advisories are in effect today for Chaves County and Central New Mexico. Heat Advisories are also in effect today for parts of southern New Mexico (Deming and El Paso areas).    Forecast high temps will be similar to yesterday's readings statewide this afternoon. A slight cooling trend is forecast for the area starting Sunday, continuing into the middle of next week. A weak cold fron...

July 30, 2025.  Artesia Tumble Weeds. July 30, 2025. Roswell Needle Grass. Two More Days Of Rain Then Here Comes The Heat! With the advent of our recent summer rains, the tumbleweed and needle grass pastures are faring very well in southeast New Mexico. So are the many different types of weeds in the state. Bad news for those who suffer from allergies this coming fall, winter, and spring. I'll still put up with them over the endless days of blowing dust we had this spring.  Scattered to numerous thunderstorms are forecast across parts of the state today into tomorrow before things calm down next week. Next week will be brutally hot in many areas, especially across the southern deserts and southeastern plains.  Severe thunderstorms will be possible in northeastern New Mexico today into this evening and again on Saturday. Burn scar flash flooding will once again torment the Ruidoso area. Flash flooding will also be possible in other areas of Lincoln County, across the north...