NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Colder air on the backside of yesterday’s potent storm system is still accompanied with some windy weather in the Rio Grande Valley, the east slopes of the mountain chains, and in Northeast New Mexico leftover sprinkles/flurries, as well as light snow for some of the higher elevations, as the wind is coming more from the north with lower wind chills accompanying the air temperatures near 0 degrees in parts of the Northern Mountains with mostly below-freezing temperatures the north to west half of the region.
More-stable atmospheric conditions in the form of the exiting low pressure system to the northeast is leaving behind a backdoor front along the Central Mountain Chain, with northeasterly winds out east contrasting with northwesterly winds elsewhere as despite leftover precipitation in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains toward the East Highlands, clearer skies with less dust will accompany below-normal afternoon temperatures in the 40s, 50s, and 60s from north to south where fire threat conditions will still be critical in the Pecos River Valley to the Permian Basin, all while patchy blowing snow is possibly for the high elevations, which will only reach on either side of the freezing mark.
Less-windy conditions later this week into the weekend will continue with relatively mild air eventually returning as little precipitation will fall in the northern communities.