The monsoon is beginning to wane, but rain chances continue for parts of New Mexico. Drier and warmer weather moves in statewide Thursday.
It was a warm and mostly dry day across New Mexico. High pressure was sitting around the Four Corners Monday afternoon, bringing some spotty showers and a couple thunderstorms to mainly the northern mountains, west-central New Mexico, and southern Colorado. Temperatures were a degree or two warmer today than Sunday as well, with seasonably cool temperatures tonight.
It will be a rinse-and-repeat pattern through Wednesday across New Mexico. Tuesday may bring a few more showers and storms in the afternoon, including in central New Mexico, where colliding outflow boundaries could bring an isolated shower to the Albuquerque Metro.
A large low pressure system moving across the northwestern United States will draw drier air into New Mexico Thursday – signalizing a more fall-like weather pattern. This will bring in windier weather Thursday and Friday afternoon with southwest wind gusts up to 35 mph. That will also mean warmer weather, with Thursday being the warmest day this week.
There’s a lot of uncertainty with this weekend’s forecast, but forecast models are suggesting that moisture will work its way north into New Mexico starting Saturday, bringing back chances for rain to the state this weekend.