NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Muggy conditions remained this morning with patchy fog mostly out in the far-eastern areas with few lingering showers with occasional rumbles of thunder in the higher elevations to scattered parts of New Mexico with gusty east gap winds for a few areas. Way-above-freezing temperatures were even confined to most of the higher peaks of the Northern Mountains with valley floor locations mostly starting off in the high 40s or in the 50s, while elsewhere was mostly starting off in the 50s to the lower 70s.
Light southerly winds aloft winds with a high pressure system to the east will combine to squeeze out more moisture in the form of more rounds of Monsoonal thunderstorms across many of the burn scars with flooding more likely, across the East Mountains especially, and partially down some areas within the valleys floors, including parts of the Rio Grande Valley. Some thick clouds will dampen temperatures with most reaching the upper 70s, 80s, and in the 90s, while some highly-elevated areas or northern areas may not get out of the high 60s.
Moist air is in place, but the pendulum swing pattern of muggy mornings with breezy easterly winds shifting to southwesterly drier winds in the afternoons forming storms to the east will still continue though. More storms will form in the short term with an influx of low-level moisture from the Gulf and lower pressure also approaching from the Rockies with a frontal boundary keeping that stormy, muggy pattern in place for many with gusty winds until conditions dry out while heating up by the end of the week.
