New Mexico
Sunnier, hotter weather returns this weekend
Grant’s Friday Night Forecast
Clouds and storms brought some much needed relief from the heat and much needed rain across parts of New Mexico Friday. Drier and hotter weather returns this weekend.
Some much needed rain fell across parts of New Mexico today, especially along and north of I-40. The rain and Temperatures have been over 30° cooler today in the northern half of New Mexico, while southern New Mexico is still climbing into the triple-digits. A few isolated storms will continue in eastern New Mexico through Saturday morning, before drier weather returns around 8 AM.
Drier and hotter weather moves in starting Saturday. Temperatures will climb back to near and warmer than normal Saturday afternoon with sunny to mostly sunny skies. It will be even hotter on Father’s Day with more 90s and 100s. The heat will continue into early next week, with high temperatures falling only a couple degrees. Windier weather develops Monday afternoon, likely bringing a high fire danger across parts of the state. The windy weather won’t last long with quieter conditions again by Wednesday.
A monsoon-like patter will develop late next week and bringing back scattered afternoon rain and thunderstorm chances beginning next Thursday and will likely continue into the following weekend.
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — If you can see a dust storm from space, you know it’s huge. Dust picked up from decaying thunderstorms in New Mexico, causing a hazy first day of summer around the Phoenix metro and central and southern Arizona.
Yes, the dust came all the way from New Mexico.
National Weather Service meteorologists from El Paso to Albuquerque had their hands full with severe weather late Wednesday. Massive thunderstorms dumped large amounts of hail, flooding rain, and strong, damaging winds across the Land of Enchantment and beyond.
As we’ve seen here in the Phoenix metro during our summer Monsoon, when those towering thunderstorms start to collapse, the cold, dense air that drops tens of thousands of feet to the ground can roll up massive walls of dust.
These outflow boundaries can push this dust hundreds of miles, which showed up on weather satellites orbiting the Earth. Estimates put this enormous haboob at over 200 miles long. The outflow pushed the dust westward into our state in the overnight hours.
A check of air quality gauges across Maricopa County Thursday afternoon showed several with high levels of PM-10, particulate matter that can be unhealthy for sensitive groups of people with breathing issues.
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