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South Carlsbad Gets Dumped On...Again! Call it the luck of the Irish or whatever but those of us who live on the north end of Carlsbad once again got left out of a toad strangler this morning. The Carlsbad Airport ASOS measured 1.69" from a thunderstorm between 9-11 AM this morning. Radar estimated (this may be a tad too high too) that as much as 2.40" fell just a short distance south and west of the airport.  This brings the Carlsbad Airports July rainfall total to date up to 2.85" compared to a long term average of 1.55". And their year-to-date total to 4.28" compared to a long term average of 6.73.  Our home on the northwest side of town now stands at .89" for the month and 1.77" for the year.  NWS MesoWest 12-Hour Rainfall Totals. (As Of 4 PM MDT Thursday Afternoon). Meanwhile only .03" was recorded at the Artesia Airport and .11" at the NMSU SEBS Automated Weather Station located 6 miles south of...

July 14th, 2018. Looking south from just east of the Cloudcroft Ski Resort. Putting Summer Temperatures Into Proper Perspective. When you start talking about how hot or how cold it is its very important to keep things in perspective. That is if you are interested in the truth about our weather and not what the Climate Alarmists and Globalists are feeding us via the Main Stream News Media. More and more it seems that there is a rush to convince us that we have entered uncharted territory temperature-wise with every new record high temperatures falling by the wayside every time you turn around. Social Media has become a key role player simply because most people believe what they see or read. Media hype is rampant in some cases with very little fact checking going on.  Unfortunately some private and government Meteorologists have been a part of this for the past twenty years or so too. And now sadly even some National Weather Service Meteorologists and jumping on t...