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Correction: Albuquerque’s high Friday, March 15, tied the record of 77 set in 2007.
Albuquerque’s semi-official high of 77 at the National Weather Service’s airport thermometer this afternoon fell two degrees short of the record for the day. The record, 79, was set in 2007.
Expect a warm weekend, but not quite that warm, with highs in the low to mid 70s Saturday and Sunday, accompanied by increasing wind.
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John Fleck has written about science for the Journal since 1990. His specialties include nuclear weapons work at Sandia and Los Alamos labs and the federal budgets that drive them, along with New Mexico's tenuous water situation and the climate issues that underly it. He's worked as a newsman since before he could drink legally, covering NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory before moving to New Mexico to work at the Journal.
He's been a fellow and contributing editor at Stanford University's Bill Lane Center for the American West, where he worked on water issues with the center's Rural West Initiative. He's the author of A Tree Rings' Tale, a University of New Mexico Press book for young people about the science of climate, water and weather.
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