Yesterday’s afternoon and evening thunderstorms brought rain around New Mexico, a sign that our summer monsoon season is getting underway, according to Ed Polasko of the National Weather Service’s Albuqerque office. “It’s not the traditional ‘Monsoon’ moisture surge from the south (shower/thunderstorm coverage is spotty not widespread), but since the dry “westerlies” don’t look to return anytime soon, it looks like our summer monsoon season has started,” Polasko wrote in a note this morning to members of New Mexico’s Drought Monitoring Working Group.
The real wet spots were up in Colfax County, where Eagle’s Nest got 2.47 inches in an intense thunderstorm and the airport at Raton reported 0.97 inch. Albuquerque reported 0.01 at the airport, 0.10 in Four Hills (and unofficial 0.01 in the rain gauge at my house near UNM).
Today’s forecast calls for afternoon thundershowers with locally heavy rain in the northern and western parts of the state. Check the NWS for the latest (click on the map for chances of rain where you are).
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