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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 »
Ash in the Rio Grande slows Albuquerque drinking water intake
Albuquerque has curtailed drinking water diversions from the Rio Grande because of ash from the Las Conchas fire, according to David Morris, spokesman for the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility... Read more »
Dry fall forecast
As we near completion of the driest New Mexico “water year” (Oct. – Sept.) on record, the federal Climate Prediction Center’s latest outlook suggests little relief: (Brown suggests a shift... Read more »
What’s all this fuss about a fish?
This morning’s newspaper story about the US Bureau of Reclamation’s new draft “Biological Assessment” on Rio Grande water management and endangered species barely scratches the surface of a topic that’ll... Read more »
Irrigators may face more burden for minnow protection
The days of the federal government as the middle Rio Grande’s sugar daddy, providing the extra money and water needed to protect the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow, appear to... Read more »
A bad year getting worse?
In the midst of New Mexico’s driest year on record, forecasters are beginning to talk about the possibility of another arid winter. Federal forecasters have issued a “La Niña watch,”... Read more »
Another Dry Winter for New Mexico?
I hate to point this out as y’all are gasping through the dust of New Mexico’s driest year on record, but federal forecasters are beginning to make less-than-reassuring comments about... Read more »
Around the Tubes, Drought Edition
Some depressing drought-related reading from around the ‘Net on a lazy Friday’s end to the Week of Debtpocalypse: In Texas, donkeys rescued from drought In Somalia, effort to rescue humans... Read more »
