NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Storm system number one, while leaving behind plenty of clouds across the region with widespread fog in far-eastern areas, is moving away with a few fast-moving snow showers from the San Juan Mountains through the San Man Mateo Mountains, the Enchanted Circle, and into parts of the Northeast Highlands, while the southern part of the system is starting to briefly produce a few very light chilly rain showers with wet snow showers that are moving eastbound into the Gila National Forest. Permian Basin temperatures to the Pecos River Valley are mostly above freezing with any mist or fog causing wet conditions, while areas to the north are dealing with light misty snow causing slick travel with wind chill values below zero degrees for a few areas with even colder air temperatures in the San Juan Mountains around zero degrees.
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Light-to-moderate snow will continue to move into Northeast New Mexico with very sporadic rain and wet snow showers in southern areas throughout the day and while most other areas will be precipitation-free, a temperature divide will show itself by the afternoon, but a cooler one than yesterday. While afternoon temperatures will be below freezing from the North Mountain Peaks to the Northeast Highlands with that colder, more-damp air mass still being accompanied by easterly winds in eastern New Mexico as well, west-northwesterly gusty winds will warm things up more elsewhere, but not as much as yesterday, mostly reaching well into the upper 40s, 50s, and lower 60s.
As conditions dry out more later today into tomorrow, winds will shift back a little bit more from the southwest for the western majority of the region with southerly winds out east, resulting in the colder air for the next 24 hours to switch to milder air later tomorrow through Valentine’s Day for most, all before a more-robust low pressure system brings in more widespread rain and snow Thursday night into the first half of Saturday with fluctuating temperatures then following…