Weather Authority Alert: Brownout, cold front for Wednesday Your 9Day Forecast
Apr 01, 2025
A Dust Storm Warning is posted for El Paso, Dona Ana, and Luna Counties until 6:45 PM. Visibility is under 1/4 mile in some areas. Some roads have been closed for safety: Interstate 10 in Texas between mile markers 9 and 54 and Highway 54 in New Mexico between mile markers 1 and 39.
What a horr
ible, no good, terrible, most disgusting, miserable, nasty weather day! (There, I said it for all of us.) As of 5:45 PM, here are the peak wind gusts. I may update that later this evening because we could be in for a surge of stronger winds before 10 PM.
Though the winds will not be quite as strong Wednesday as they have been today, they'll still be strong enough to produce blowing dust again. Here's your exclusive 9-Hour Forecast for Wednesday:
TONIGHT: KTSM has extended its Weather Authority Alert through Wednesday night due to powerful winds, damaging gusts, and blowing dust that will continue on Wednesday. The skies will be a nearly total brown-out from dust. A High Wind Warning is posted until 9 PM. A Blowing Dust Advisory is posted until 9 PM. The west winds will gust near 65+ mph with the strongest gusts on the east slopes. Winds will diminish a little bit in the overnight hours, and the low will drop to 51.
FORECAST: KTSM has issued a Weather Authority Alert for Wednesday due to a cold front that will bring strong winds and blowing dust. Wednesday will also bring strong west-SW winds gusting near 55 mph. Though these winds will not be quite as strong as those Tuesday, it will cause blowing dust by afternoon. Wednesday's high: 69. Thursday will be partly to mostly cloudy and cooler with a high of 65. Winds will be lighter and not strong enough to produce blowing dust. Friday will be partly to mostly cloudy with scattered light rain showers. We'll have a slight chance of isolated (non-severe) t-storms. Friday's high: 62. Saturday will be cloudy and chilly with a high of 54. Expect widely scattered rain showers, and winds will be strongest on the western slopes with cooler winds coming in from the east. Sunday will be a beautiful day with a high of 62. Skies will be mostly sunny to partly cloudy, and the winds will be light and variable.
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