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Arctic Air Has Arrived In SE NM. Hard Freeze Warning Tonight. I would like to wish all of you who visit this web page a Happy Thanksgiving. I hope that this will be a great day for all of you, your family and loved ones. Thanks for stopping by. :) An arctic cold front has arrived in most of SE NM as of 5:30 AM MST this Thanksgiving morning.  Temperatures are slowly falling across the area as the frontal boundary pushes eastward and southward into West Texas. At 5:30 AM MST temps across the local area ranged from 55 at the Bat Draw Raws at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, 50 at the Carlsbad Airport, 49 at my home in NW Carlsbad, 42 at the Artesia Airport, 36 at the Roswell Airport, 36 in South Hobbs, 34 at the 8-Mile Draw Raws, 32 in Lovington, 28 in Tatum, 20 in Santa Rosa, and 20 in Clovis. Most of the reporting stations in the Sacramento Mountains were in the upper 20's to low 30's . Today will be colder with most of the lower elevation locations struggl...

At noontime the arctic cold front was poised to move into Northwestern New Mexico. Temperatures around the state at 1 PM MST, ranged from 36 at Taos, 37 at Farmington, 39 at Gallup, to 75 at Carlsbad.  To give you an idea of just how cold this approaching arctic airmass is, most reporting stations in Montana , at 1 PM MST, have temps that range from -10 to around 10 .  Southwesterly winds have been kicking up as predicted. As of 1 PM MST the following gusts have been recorded. Guadalupe Pass 58 mph Bowl Raws 1/2 Mile North of Guadalupe Peak 58 mph Sierra Blanca Regional Airport 54 mph Queen Raws 48 mph Artesia Airport 46 mph McKittrick Canyon Raws 45 mph Mescal Raws - Near Mescalero 43 mph Smokey Bear Raws Near Ruidoso 43 mph Dunken Raws 43 mph 2 SW Tatum 42 mph Mayhill Raws 41 mph The Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction!