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January 30, 2026. Atoka, New Mexico. Waiting To Be Fed After The Storm. A large area of blowing dust originating in northern Mexico, southwest of El Paso, overspread southeastern New Mexico yesterday afternoon, partially obscuring the sky. Blowing sand from Whites Sands and blowing dust from southwestern New Mexico joined the mix. That sent everyone's allergies and sinus issues into overdrive. Visibility in the blowing dust dropped as low as 3/4 to 1 mile over southern New Mexico and 3-5 miles in southeastern New Mexico. Yesterday's peak wind gust winner was the San Augustin Raws located in Organ Pass along US Hwy 70, east of Las Cruces, with a peak wind gust measured at 98 mph. A gust to 72 mph was recorded at Carlsbad Caverns West Texas Mesonet Station, as well as in Pine Springs in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park.  A gust of 72 mph was recorded by the Raton Airport ASOS, and 70 mph at the Clayton Airport ASOS. And the Sierra Blanca Regional Airport AWOS, located northe...

February 5, 2026. Altocumulus Standing Lenticular Cloud - ACSL Snow Covering Ocotillo Foothills - NW Of Carlsbad, NM. At 2:00 PM MST, my backyard Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus Wireless Station has already reached 83. It's 81 at the Carlsbad Airport, 80 in Lakewood, and at the Artesia Airport. Even at Runyan Ranches (5,458') east of Elk, it's 80. These temps are some twenty degrees above normal for mid February. Such has been the case for much of the fall and winter.  Get ready to go for a very bumpy, windy, dusty rollercoaster ride in New Mexico from Tuesday through Thursday. Tuesday will just be a flat-out ugly day in most places with damaging high winds and areas of blowing dust, tumble weeds, and needle grass, particularly from the central mountain chain eastward out onto the northeastern, eastern, and southeastern plains. Numerous High Wind Warnings, High Wind Watches, Wind Advisories, Blowing Dust Advisories, Red Flag Warnings, Fire Weather Watches, Winter Storm Warnings, an...

February 6, 2026. Seven Rivers Sunset. February's weather in New Mexico can and sometimes is pretty wild. It marks the end of the meteorological winter as the meteorological spring knocks on its front door (March 1st). Many but not all of New Mexico's all-time winter low temperatures have been set in February. On February 1, 1951, Gavilin (Rio Arriba County) officially recorded the state's all-time low temperature of -50°F. On February 8, 1933, Dulce dropped down to -48 ºF.  On February 12, 1948, Eagle Next officially bottomed out at -44 º F. On February 1, 1951, Wol Canyon recorded -41 ºF for a low.  Artesia officially recorded its all-time low of -35 ºF on the morning of February 8, 1933. Hagerman was right there with them with an official low of -34 ºF. Tatum recorded -32 ºF. Pearl west of Hobbs recorded a low of -30 ºF.  You never know what February will bring in southeastern New Mexico. One of the craziest ranges of extremes was set in this month.  Carlsbad's h...

January 25, 2026. Carlsbad, New Mexico. Here it is mid-February, and it already feels like spring is poking its head up. Not that uncommon this time of the year. Remember the meteorological beginning of spring is March 1st, even though the calendar beginning of spring is March 20th. Not to worry, winter will continue to pop its head up from time to time just to remind us that it's not done with us yet.  A Pacific cold front will sweep southeastward across the state today, producing slightly cooler temps across the state today into Sunday.  A mid-upper level closed low will continue to slide east from west of the Baja Peninsula this morning along the U.S. and Mexican International Border, today into Saturday mid-day. Lift and abundant mid-upper level moisture streaming northeast into the region ahead of this low will help to produce widespread showers with a few thunderstorms across the state today into Saturday.  Rainfall totals by Saturday afternoon across the lowlands a...

January 30, 2026. Downtown Artesia, NM. Snow Drifts From Plowing.  A Week After The Beginning Of The Winter Storm. A number of new daily record low temperatures, record low maximum temperatures, and daily snowfall records were set by our recent winter storm.  Pasamonte west of Clayton in northeastern New Mexico broke their previous record low of -5F set on January 26, 1948, with -13F.  Roswell's -6F blew their previous daily record low of 11F on January 26, 1966, out of the water with -6F.  Artesia's -6F beat their previous record of 9 set on January 27, 1928. Other daily record low,  daily record low maximum temperatures, and daily record snowfall totals are listed below. Here in Carlsbad, I recorded a low of 2F on my Davis Vantage Pro2 Plut Wireless PWS on the morning of the 26th. The Carlsbad Airport ASOS stopped reporting during the storm so I don't have their low temperature.  A strong temperature inversion trapped cold modified arctic air near the sur...

January 26, 2026. Carlsbad, New Mexico. Rime Ice From Freezing Fog This Morning. Blog Updated At 1:30 PM MST Thursday, January 29, 2026. Blog Udated At 7:17 AM MST Wednesday, January 28, 2026. Blog Updated At 1:40 PM MST Tuesday, January 27, 2026. Wow! What a storm. Historic not only for parts of New Mexico but from here all the way east and northeast to New England. And it's still not over yet for millions. At least a dozen states had reports of snowfall totals of a foot or more. This one will be remembered and talked about for years to come.  Widespread power outages from New Mexico northeastward put hundreds of thousands in the dark. Mississippi was especially hit hard. At least 11,000 people lost power in the Sacramento Mountains on Saturday, and many outages remain as of this writing. As soon as Power crews repair broken power poles and lines, additional trees and tree limbs break and fall onto them from the weight of the ice and snow. This is ongoing.  The heavy wet snow...

December 30, 2025. Carlsbad Beach/Golf Course. If you are not ready for this winter storm, then you had better finalize your preparations and plans because this one looks to be a doozy! Widespread winter weather impacts, including travel problems and power outages, look to be on the table for parts of New Mexico and most of West Texas. Abundant mid-high level sub-tropical (record levels of moisture for this time of the year) will stream northeastward into the region ahead of the cut-off upper-level low located west of LA this morning. As this low moves southeastward and into the Baja Region Friday and Friday night it will phase with a deep and very cold long-wave trough of low pressure diving southwestward out of the northern plains and into the Desert Southwest. The two systems will merge and swing eastward across the state on Sunday, providing the necessary lift and instability for a widespread major winter storm.  Meanwhile, a powerful arctic cold front will backdoor its way sou...