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Flood Risk over Northern NM Fire Areas Today
There’s a “moderate” (40 to 60 percent) risk of thunderstorms over the Las Conchas and Pacheco burn scars today (Mon. 8/29), according to the National Weather Service. We’ve seen over… Read more
New Rio Grande Books
I can highly recommend two new books just out on the Rio Grande: Reining in the Rio Grande from UNM Press, and The Rio Grande, a River Guide from the… Read more
Around the Tubes
Some notes from the ‘Net on a Sunday evening: Some talk afoot that Irene was hyped. $7 billion (at least) in damage doesn’t sound like hype to me. That much… Read more
Graph of the week: Albuquerque Metro Area Unemployment
Unemployment in Valencia County, south of Albuquerque, is consistently higher than in Bernalillo County, which makes up the core of the Albuquerque metro area:
Feds pushing ahead with Los Alamos plutonium lab
Federal officials want to push ahead with a proposed Los Alamos plutonium laboratory despite soaring cost estimates and questions about seismic safety, according to a new analysis released late Friday afternoon…. Read more
Around the tubes, Irene edition
Some hurricane-related links as we look on in awe from New Mexico. (And if you’re reading this from Irene’s path, what are you doing sitting in front of a computer?… Read more
Grim Drought Forecast for NM and Neighbors
Thursday’s Drought Monitor for New Mexico shows little change from last week. But that’s not a good thing. At a time when drought conditions should be lessening because of summer… Read more
High Thunderstorm Risk Over Las Conchas Today
There’s a high risk of thunderstorms today over the area burned by the Las Conchas fire, according to the National Weather Service. As Journal photographer Richard Pipes and I learned… Read more
Around the tubes
Some morning links: After the fires come the floods: Staci Matlock has the latest on Nambe Lake, downstream from Pacheco. Greg Sorber and I went up to Cochiti Lake yesterday,… Read more
More ash in the Rio Grande
Cochiti Reservoir is clogged with burned logs and other floating debris, the result of a series of flash floods that blew across the burned Jemez Mountains landscape left by the… Read more
DC Earthquake Felt Strong on Capitol Hill
Well, that was a strange sensation. I was sitting here at my desk dutifully working on my next Journal story (and maybe staring a little aimlessly out the window at… Read more
Flood Debris Closes Cochiti to Boating
The Army Corps of Engineers closed Cochiti Reservoir to boating this morning, with a quarter of the lake’s surface now covered with floating debris from the last two days flooding… Read more
