Temperatures continue to heat up across New Mexico through Thursday. A surge of monsoon moisture will bring showers and storms across New Mexico starting Friday.
High pressure is making its way towards New Mexico Wednesday. The effects are already being felt with hotter temperatures and fewer showers and storms earlier today. Another round of isolated showers and storms will return Thursday afternoon as high pressure moves right over northern New Mexico. This will also bring the hottest weather of the week, with a few places reaching near-record high temperatures.
By Friday afternoon, a traditional monsoon pattern sets up as high pressure moves to the east of New Mexico drawing up a surge of monsoon moisture from the south. This will fuel scattered showers and thunderstorms Friday afternoon for areas along and west of the central mountain chain, leaving eastern New Mexico dry. Temperatures will also be slightly cooler.
That plume of monsoon moisture gets tilted more to the northeast this weekend, bringing drier weather back to the Four Corners area once again. Meanwhile, the rest of New Mexico will see daily thunderstorm chances through at least the middle of next week. These storms will be capable of heavy rainfall and flash flooding. A burn scar flash flooding threat will return to southern New Mexico as early as Friday afternoon. Temperatures will also be slightly cooler with the increase in monsoon moisture and rain chances.
