NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Muggy conditions have 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 are 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 is mostly starting off in the 50s to the lower 70s.
Stronger westerly winds aloft with a high pressure system weakening to the east will combine to squeeze out some moisture in the form of fewer rounds of Monsoonal thunderstorms across a few of the burn scars with flooding less likely, across parts of the East Mountains especially, and partially down a few areas within the valleys floors, including very parts of the Rio Grande Valley. Thinner clouds will allow temperatures to rise with most reaching the high 70s, 80s, and in the 90s.
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. Conditions will continue to dry out while heating up by the end of the week into the early weekend until the next push of Monsoon moisture arrives.
