NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Colder air to start has spread southward with mostly clear skies, mostly light winds, with drier air allowing for more radiational cooling than yesterday in the valley floors south of I-10, but elsewhere is starting off not only milder, but also, drier and breezier, courtesy of a ridge of high pressure to the south which is steering in some clouds region-wide with light snow in the San Juan Mountains, that will briefly warm things back up for at least the next couple of days.
To start across the region from north-northwest to south-southeast, temperatures are in the upper single digits, teens, 20s, and 30s, but even a few pockets of low-40-degree temperatures in the East Highlands with clouds absorbing infrared radiation from escaping to space, as well as the milder, westerly downsloping winds going up, above, then below the Central Mountains to the east-sloped counterparts, also mixing the air around at the surface, which doesn’t allow for as much cooling.
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