A cold front will bring a slight drop in temperatures through the middle of this week. A storm may bring back rain and snow to parts of New Mexico this weekend.
It’s another warm afternoon all across New Mexico, but temperatures are a couple degrees cooler than yesterday. Still, record high temperatures have been broken in Santa Fe and Silver City. Temperatures will be mild again overnight after today’s warm weather. A cold front will start moving into the northeastern part of the state, making it as far south as Roswell by 7 AM. The cold front will keep temperatures cooler in the eastern half of the state. A Pacific front will bring a drop in temperatures in northwest and central New Mexico. A few spotty rain and snow showers will be possible around the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
By late Wednesday evening, the backdoor front will begin spilling into the Rio Grande Valley bringing a gusty east wind. Wind gusts could be as high as 40 mph in the Albuquerque Metro around midnight and slowly die down by Thursday morning. Spotty rain and mountain snow showers will be possible from Socorro to T or C, the Sacramento Mountains, and Roswell by Thursday morning with drier weather returning in the afternoon.
Warmer weather will return again Friday through Saturday. A storm will approach New Mexico this weekend, but there is still some uncertainty in its track. Highest chances for rain and mountain snow are across far northern New Mexico right now, but if the storm trends south, that will bring better moisture into the state. Another storm could bring more rain and mountain snow later next week as well.