NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Fast-moving wispy clouds are occasionally passing through but it’s mostly clear for most with southwesterly winds starting to pick up for a few areas, which is allowing for air to descend down the east slopes of the mountains while leading to a warmer effect at the dry surface, resulting in the above-normal morning temperatures in the Rio Grande Valley to southern communities of New Mexico with many starting off in the 50s to the 60s, while around-freezing temperatures are occurring for a few areas in the Northern Mountains.
Very strong southwesterly to westerly potentially-damaging wind gusts will then develop under the very dry air-mass, leading to widespread dust with the even higher fire threat as a temperature divide will form today, ranging from the upper 50s to the lower 70s in the Four Corners, while a vast majority of communities from the Metro the south and east will be around the 80s to the 90s with a few areas possibly breaking records once again in Southeast New Mexico.
Unstable weather in the form of a low pressure system from the west will once again lead to very breezy weather tomorrow with the high fire danger, as well as some blowing dust, but a push of even wetter conditions for many with mountain snow with colder air will arrive later tomorrow through early Easter Sunday Morning; but then, improving conditions with higher temperatures, dry air, and calmer winds, will return.