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 Northeast 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 upper 50s to the low 70s.
West-northwesterly winds aloft with a high pressure system south of New Mexico migrating to the Southwest will combine to squeeze out moisture in the form of some rounds of Monsoonal thunderstorms across still most of the burn scars with flooding still likely, across parts of the East Mountains, and partially down some areas within the valleys floors, including parts of the Rio Grande Valley. Some thick clouds will allow temperatures to rise around or slightly-above normal for many with most reaching the upper 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. Storms will keep temperatures from being too hot in the short term, but conditions will eventually dry out while heating up more into this weekend until the next push of Monsoon moisture arrives next week.
