Another round of high winds will move through New Mexico Tuesday afternoon. Blowing dust and a high fire danger will return too with wind gusts up to 70 mph.
Windier weather has returned to start the week. Southwest winds are gusting over 40 mph at times across parts of New Mexico. That has helped to bring in warmer weather today too, with temperatures in the 60s, 70s, and 80s for many. Winds will settle down overnight ahead of a very windy day Tuesday.
Winds will pick up through the day Tuesday, peaking around 3 PM. West, southwest winds will be 30 to 50 mph with gusts up to 75 mph in eastern parts of the state. This will cause areas of blowing dust again with an extremely high fire danger in eastern New Mexico. This storm will sweep a cold front across the state, bringing cooler high temperatures tomorrow. A few spotty rain and snow showers will also move through northwestern and northern New Mexico, along with southern Colorado. Accumulations of rain and snow will be light. Winds will die down Tuesday night as the rain and snow ends too.
A backdoor cold front will bring even colder high temperatures Wednesday. A couple more isolated rain and light snow showers will be possible along this front in eastern and northern New Mexico, but the chance is low. Winds will be breezy again Wednesday.
A warming trend starts Thursday as breezy to locally windy weather sticks around. This is the story through this upcoming weekend with mild to warm temperatures and breezy to windy afternoons.