Prolonged Significant High Wind/Blowing Dust Event Tonight Into Wednesday!

February 9, 2023. Capitan Mountains On St Hwy 246. Snow Showers Obscuring The Mountains. Surface Map Forecast. Valid At 5 PM MST Monday, February 13, 2023. Two Winter Storms With Significant Impacts. Two strong winter storms will impact New Mexico and surrounding areas today into Wednesday. Early this Monday morning the first winter storm (closed mid/upper-level low) to impact the area was centered over the northern Gulf of Baja, California. It is forecast to move east today and by around sunset should be located over central New Mexico. It will then pivot northeastward and by sunrise Tuesday morning will be located over far southeastern Colorado. The second and stronger winter storm will drop southward out of the Great Basin and into northern Arizona as a closed mid/upper-level low Wednesday morning at sunrise. It will then swing eastward across central and northern New Mexico Wednesday. The closed low opens up as a shortwave trough of low pressure and exits the state o...