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June 19, 2026. Near 16-Springs Canyon. Record Heat Monday. (Monday's Highs & Previous Record Highs For The Date). Carlsbad Cavern City Air Terminal Airport ASOS 108 - Previous 104 In 1930. Artesia Climate COOP Station 107 - Previous 104 in 1910. Roswell Industrial Air Center Airport ASOS 105 - Previous 105 in 2024. Artesia Airport AWOS 104 - Previous 102 in 2024.  Hobbs Regional Airport AWOS 104 - Previous 100 in 2024. Alamogordo Municipal Airport AWOS 100 - Previous 100 in 2024. Elk Climate COOP Station 98 - Previous 93 in 2002.  Sierra Blanca Regional Airport Near Ruidoso 91 - Previous 86 in 2019.  Ruidoso Climate COOP Station 89 - Previous 87 in 2011. Cloudcroft Climate COOP Station 81 - Previous 80 in 1969. A Heat Advisory   continues in effect today for Chaves, Eddy, central and southern Lea Counties, as well as across the Permian Basin. Today's forecast highs across southeastern New Mexico and West Texas are expected to come in close to yesterday's readings...

August 16, 2026. Between Artesia & Roswell.  This summer has become another summer from Hades for southeastern New Mexico and West Texas. Much as I had suspected, our very strong El Niño has played a major role in suppressing our annual summer monsoon, keeping it mostly centered along and west of the central mountain chains of the state thus far. This has kept us under a massive, unrelenting dome of high pressure that has squashed our normal summer t-storm activity locally.   Don't get your hopes up yet because it's not about to change over the next two weeks. If we are lucky, we will see a pattern shift/change the first week of September with the behemoth high weakening some and sliding east of the state, thus allowing a more favorable southerly flow into the area and hopefully increasing our t-storm chances.  Until then, we can expect to see more seemingly never-ending days of 100º to 106º daily high temps across most of the southeastern plains. A weak cold fro...

August 15, 2026. Cumulonimbus Mammatus Clouds. Looking West From Lakewood, New Mexico. Help, we're stuck, and we can't get out. Get out of this boring, unrelenting hot and dry pattern. Brought to you by our annual summer monsoon, which is being heavily influenced (IMHO) by the very strong El Niño that continues to strengthen towards record levels.  As often is the case, strong El Niños can and do produce dry, hot summers across parts of West Texas and New Mexico... this year has not disappointed so far, particularly across the eastern half of the state, east of the central mountain chain. To date, the following locations have recorded the following number of days with highs of 100º or higher: Our home in NW Carlsbad (Not official) 47.  Carlsbad Cavern Air Center Airport ASOS 43. Roswell Industrial Air Center Airport ASOS 37. Brantley Dam Climate COOP Station 35. Artesia Climate COOP Station SEBS 34. Artesia Municipal Airport AWOS 32.  Hobbs Regional Airport AWOS 19. ...

July 5, 2026. Lakewood, New Mexico. Our monsoonal mid-upper level high will remain centered over the Four Corners today and begin a slow slide eastward into the Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast States by late this week. Meanwhile, an upper-level trough of low pressure will dig southward into the Western U.S. Tuesday into the upcoming weekend.  This will allow the flow aloft to turn southerly over the state, which will import monsoonal moisture northward from Mexico later this week.   Today and Tuesday, many of us will get thrown back into the frying pan with near-record to record daily high temperatures forecast. Forecast highs today and Wednesday across the southeastern plains will be in the 102 to 105 range. By Thursday, we will knock off a few degrees from our daily highs into the weekend, with most locations in the upper 90s.  A few isolated to widely scattered t-storms will pop up over parts of southeastern plains, the Guadalupe, Sacramento, and Capitan Mountai...

July 17, 2026. Artesia, New Mexico. July was hot with widely varied rainfall totals for the month across not only southeastern New Mexico but the rest of the state as well. Selected July 2026 High Temps. Socorro NWS Climate COOP Station 112 (New all-time record high).  Tucumcari NWS Climate COOP Station 110 (Ties all-time July record high). Tucumcari AGC NMCC 108 Rio Rancho NWS Climate COOP Station #2 108 NMSU Las Cruces Main Campus NMCC 108 El Paso Intl Airport ASOS 108 2.1 NNW Downtown Carlsbad 107 (Unofficial - My PWS). 8-Mile Draw Raws 107  Roswell Industrial Air Center Airport ASOS 107  Hagerman NMCC 107 Seven Rivers/Lakewood NMCC 107 Otero Ranch East NMCC - West side of the Guadalupe Mtns 107 Dexter NMCC 106 Artesia Airport AWOS 106  Artesia NWS Climate COOP Station 106  Brantley Dam NWS Climate COOP Station 106 Loving NMCC 106 Malaga NMCC 106 Boky Ranch NMCCC - N of Alamogordo 106 Alamogordo Airport AWOS 106  Portales NWS Climate COOP Station 105 Ca...