Topic: One thing about New Mexico...

[Cienega32]

Those storms dumped a quarter-inch of giant-drop, hard rain on me but didn't last too long.

[Bunty]

GDay Chris
You have a website yet?

No. I'm too busy for that.

Once you get a weather web site going, it can pretty much take care of itself.

[Chris H.]

A chilly 45 here in Portales Monday morning. And the dorm heat system failed again (the system uses two fans in the basement, and hot and cold water pipes. Do the math.). So I'm freezing. You could literally keep a bottle of water out and it'll be nice and cold.

[Cienega32]

I spend a few days in Houston with absolutely beautiful weather and I come back home to overnite 40s! It's cold!

[Chris H.]

I spend a few days in Houston with absolutely beautiful weather and I come back home to overnite 40s! It's cold!

Thank God my friend lent me a small six inch space heater (fan forced heated aluminum/steel radiator- very small chance this thing could catch fire on its own unless the thermostat dies again- I replaced it). It's in the lower to mid 40s pretty much every night here in Portales.

[DaculaWeather]

Hell, my wife opens a couple of windows and has a fan blowing outside air in at night, I freeze my butt off when I get up in the morning!!!  Bring new meaning to the term, numb nutts!

[Albuquerque Weather]

or you could say brass monkey weather

[Chris H.]

or you could say brass monkey weather

I just got that. LMAO.
 

[Cienega32]

Today, a beautiful day - 79F, 5-10MPH breezes, clear blue sky - a real beaut!

Tomorrow? A chance of 1" hail and a rare tornado or two along with torrential rain between 4PM and 10PM.

"If a tornado does land in the area, it won't be too bad. Winds maybe from 70-100MPH", the weatherman says...

[Chris H.]

Today, a beautiful day - 79F, 5-10MPH breezes, clear blue sky - a real beaut!

Tomorrow? A chance of 1" hail and a rare tornado or two along with torrential rain between 4PM and 10PM.

"If a tornado does land in the area, it won't be too bad. Winds maybe from 70-100MPH", the weatherman says...

Hahaha..

Yeah we're expected to see damaging winds in excess of 70 mph, large hail and the possibility of a few isolated tornadoes...we'll see how that pans out...yikes!

All that's missing is a car. I have the camera and the computer, just not the car. Drat

[Cienega32]

I've been extremely lucky this year, with most (if not all) of the heavy-hitters just skirting my location. Lots of areas got hammered this year but I managed to escape the wrath of Nature.

Same story last year and then along came 9-11 with 2" in 30 minutes (or something to that extreme) and constant hail and 35+MPH winds thru-out.

I have a feeling that will pale in comparison to today. Just have a bad feel for this one. Duct tape, wet boots, shovels and camera are at the ready...

[Chris H.]

Anybody got a raft? I need to get to class..
 

[Cienega32]

If I could only hit PowerBall with this luck...

All evening, I wait & I wait - nothing. "Just about midnite", the skylites sound like a tribal drum chorus but it only drops 0.11" total and is over in minutes. Lots of lightning to my NE over the mountains and White Sands. El  Paso was hit with rain/hail/wind too. Me? nothing to speak of.

I check the RADARs and it looked like it really picked up as it passed Cloudcroft on its way towards you, Chris!

[Chris H.]

If I could only hit PowerBall with this luck...

All evening, I wait & I wait - nothing. "Just about midnite", the skylites sound like a tribal drum chorus but it only drops 0.11" total and is over in minutes. Lots of lightning to my NE over the mountains and White Sands. El  Paso was hit with rain/hail/wind too. Me? nothing to speak of.

I check the RADARs and it looked like it really picked up as it passed Cloudcroft on its way towards you, Chris!

Yeah this morning we got the raw guts of it, which is now into Kansas and extreme north Texas panhandle. As far as I can see on radars across the region (Cannon AFB, Midland-Odessa, Lubbock, Amarillo, Dodge City and Vance AFB), we're the only one NOT seeing severe weather despite SPC predictions. Ah well, it happens. Kind of wish I was in the south Texas panhandle right now...tornado warned storm going on.

Everything stops and starts really slowly on my MacBook (even if it is just ONE radar site open). I think I blame Java Script. This MacBook is faster than my Windows 7 Toshiba at home (which I stupidly left behind- I need radar software!) but it gets glitchy with Java script. Now I know why there isn't radar software for Mac.      

Scratch that, it was Flash. I thought NWS radar sites used Java script to animate the radars and update them?

EDIT:

Well I updated Flash. Opened up the radar sites in Safari instead of Chrome. Things run much smoother. 

[Chris H.]

Slow internet connection warning! Large photobucket files coded.

Pictures from this morning at Eastern:

[Chris H.]

Talk about WIND!!!

And cold…
 

[Cienega32]

72 high - 54 low for the day. Not too bad other than the 30MPH winds. 33 max with 204 miles of run for the day.

It;s supposed to warm up the next couple of days. Then it's time to close the swamp cooler!

I'm still in shorts mode tho' - not that cold yet.

[Chris H.]

72 high - 54 low for the day. Not too bad other than the 30MPH winds. 33 max with 204 miles of run for the day.

It;s supposed to warm up the next couple of days. Then it's time to close the swamp cooler!

I'm still in shorts mode tho' - not that cold yet.

You're lucky.

Areas north and northeast of you are seeing 30s temps, and no cloud cover with it. And the wind was un-freakin-bearable yesterday. But it was a warm wind- mid 70s yesterday. My Dad went to Denver on a business trip, so my Mom is in Albuquerque- poor thing, the heater wasn't turned on. Oh she's going to be maaaaaaad when he get's back.

I'm running my little space heater in combination with a desk fan clipped to a desk leg pushing heat around my dorm room. Have a thermometer that reads 65 inside the room and 35 outside the room. Brr. Heater is slowly cutting through that 65 temp.

[Cienega32]

And today is mentioned as a possible all-time record breaker in El Paso with temps expected to be in mid-80s.

Here, in Las Cruces, 11:30 and pushing 76 already. Yesterday was a beauty with a 3:30 high of 77 and I finally got around to washing the car!

[Cienega32]

What a difference a year makes...


Last year - 55.5 & 27.0
Today - 82.9 & 48.3

[Cienega32]

And today saw the first sub-32 degree day for the season. 31.5 at 6:52AM

Under 30 forecast for the weekend - right about when I should be back from all this drive-with-the-top-down weather in Tampa...

[Chris H.]

What a difference a year makes...


Last year - 55.5 & 27.0
Today - 82.9 & 48.3

La Nina?

And today saw the first sub-32 degree day for the season. 31.5 at 6:52AM

Under 30 forecast for the weekend - right about when I should be back from all this drive-with-the-top-down weather in Tampa...

We were expecting snow here in P-Ville on Thursday night, but they raised the low temp from 28 to 33. The coldest night of the season so far will be on Friday night, with a low of 28. More rain on Monday, with possible snow.

Snow. Snow! I've been waiting too long for this. SNOW!!

[Farmtalk]

Oh how I wish I had some snow right now!! Barely a snowflake so far this year!

[Chris H.]

Oh how I wish I had some snow right now!! Barely a snowflake so far this year!

Head to the Rockies. Oh, and bring your winter sporting gear. 

[Cienega32]

Planned it perfectly. I dilly-dallied on the last leg of the return trip (Houston to home) so as to pull in about 10AM or so, hoping it would be at least in the 50s. It was but after a 26.8 degree low at 7AM! "Record low for this date" and 13 under "normal"! COLD! Heater's not open and swamp cooler's not closed so I would've froze my hiney off this AM if I came back overnite.

Brutal rain between Houston & San Antonio that had me hiding under a few bridges with fear of hail (ragtop) but none showed.

More overnite cold - upper 20s/low30s for the next few forecast days.