NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A late winter storm will continue to move into New Mexico tonight. Heavy snow will be possible in northern and eastern parts of the state through Saturday evening.
A storm system brought showers, a couple thunderstorms, and mountain snow to parts of New Mexico Friday. A st
rong cold front is currently making it was southward through central New Mexico. This front will be the focus of heavy snow and windy weather as it moves south and west through Friday night. As it spills into the Rio Grande Valley tonight, it could cause wind gusts as high as 55 mph and 50 mph wind gusts in eastern New Mexico. Conditions will deteriorate though as this front moves south across the state. It will bring heavy snowfall across parts of northern and eastern New Mexico through Saturday morning and afternoon. This snow could get picked up by the wind and blown around as well.
Several inches of snow will be possible in eastern parts of the state and up to 18" in the northern mountains. A couple inches of snow will be possible all the way down to Roswell and far southeast New Mexico as well. Travel may be very difficult if not dangerous in east-central and northeast New Mexico starting later tonight. In Albuquerque, a gusty east canyon wind tonight may leave us mostly dry tonight, but on and off rain and snow showers will still be possible tonight through the day Saturday. Well-below average high temperatures will move in Saturday with the cold front, as a few places even break record cold high temperatures.
This storm system will clear up Saturday night with very chilly temperatures Sunday morning. A warming trend starts quickly though on Sunday with the return of sunny and dry weather. High temperatures will be back up to around average again on Monday. The warming trend continues into the end of next week, as much warmer weather moves in. Albuquerque will likely see its first 80° day of the year by Thursday. ...read more read less
