Foggy and drier weather before wet wintry storm
Nov 05, 2024
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Precipitation has left the Land of Enchantment, but pockets of dense fog, as well as some freezing fog, has come in its place with cold air, high humidity, and light winds. The storm system responsible for yesterday's unsettled weather is now moving into the Great Plains over New Mexico, spiraling the clouds, as well as the precipitation, well to the northeast, but leaving behind the gloomy low-level clouds with bitter air to start on this Election Day morning with slippery conditions.
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Temperatures are mostly ranging from the teens to the low 40s across New Mexico, mostly below normal across the region for this time of the year, with freezing to sub-freezing morning temperatures for the first time this season for some southern areas near The Mexico border. As the past storm system moves well away to the northeast with the next one starting to impact the Four Corners later today with rain, as well as mountain snow, temperatures will eventually rise more than yesterday in the high 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and near 70 degrees from north to south in lower elevation.
As the next trough of low pressure quickly moves on in overnight into later tomorrow especially, the stronger system will then slow down, allowing for a breezy Pacific Cold front from the northwest, then a gusty backdoor front from the northeast, to start moving through, with widespread rain with rumbles of thunder in south-central areas, but with even more-widespread lower-elevation accumulating wet snow ahead as temperatures will drop even more.