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WEATHER SUMMARY FOR NEW MEXICO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
530 PM MDT MON SEP 10 2012

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOSTLY DISSIPATED IN WEST CENTRAL NEW
MEXICO BY THE EARLY MORNING HOURS JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT. HOWEVER...
REMNANT CLOUD COVER WAS OBSERVED IN PATCHY AREAS THROUGHOUT THE
LAND OF ENCHANTMENT EVEN AS THE SUN ROSE THIS MORNING. TEMPERATURES
WERE CHILLY IN SOME HIGHER ELEVATIONS...INCLUDING A LOW JUST
BENEATH THE FREEZING MARK AT ANGEL FIRE WHERE THE MERCURY FELL TO 31
DEGREES. IN THE TULAROSA VALLEY...HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE RECORDED
A LOW OF ONLY 64 DEGREES.

A MIX OF CLOUDS AND SUN WERE IN PLACE OVER MUCH OF NEW MEXICO
THROUGH THE LATE MORNING AND THE AFTERNOON HOURS TODAY WITH NEW
CUMULUS CLOUDS STEADILY BUBBLING UP INTO SOME ISOLATED TO SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. WEST CENTRAL SECTIONS OF NEW MEXICO WERE
RECEIVING THE MOST PERSISTENT STORMS WITH ACTIVITY DRIFTING SLOWLY
TOWARD THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY BY THE EARLY EVENING. IN THE EAST
CENTRAL HIGHLANDS AND HIGH PLAINS...SOME ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT WAS
NOTED...HOWEVER THESE STORMS WERE NOT AS NUMEROUS NOR AS STRONG AS
THEIR WESTERN COUNTERPARTS. A LABORATORY OBSERVATION SITE NEAR LOS
ALAMOS MEASURED 0.69 INCHES OF RAINFALL TODAY...THE BANDELIER
NATIONAL MONUMENT RECEIVED 0.67 INCHES OF RAINFALL...AND SANTA FE
AIRPORT REGISTERED 0.34 INCHES OF RAINFALL AS OF THIS WRITING.

STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PROPAGATE EASTWARD AND WILL PERIODICALLY
REDEVELOP INTO THE EVENING HOURS. AFTER MIDNIGHT MUCH OF THE
PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO HAVE DIMINISHED...LEAVING BEHIND CLOUD
DEBRIS THAT WILL LIKELY PERSIST INTO THE MORNING TUESDAY. STORMS ARE
EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE OVER CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEW
MEXICO TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS BETTER MOISTURE AND A WEAK
DISTURBANCE ALOFT APPROACH THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT.

BY WEDNESDAY THIS DISTURBANCE WILL FULLY OVERTAKE NEW MEXICO WITH
SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SPREADING FARTHER
EAST INTO THE STATE. ALSO...A BACK DOOR COLD FRONT WILL PLUNGE INTO
THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF THE STATE BY LATE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...
EVENTUALLY SPILLING THROUGH REMAINING AREAS OF THE STATE WEDNESDAY
NIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING. THIS WILL YIELD COOLER TEMPERATURES AND
A HEALTHY PROBABILITIES FOR PRECIPITATION THURSDAY.

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