NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Fast-moving wispy clouds are occasionally passing through but it’s mostly clear for most with southwesterly winds really picking up for many, 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 earlier 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 were occurring for a few areas in the northern mountains.
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Very strong southwesterly to westerly potentially-damaging wind gusts will continue to 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…