A strong cold front has been making it was through New Mexico overnight. This front is the focus of heavy snow and windy weather as it continues to move south and west. Conditions will continue to deteriorate through the day as heavy snowfall will fall across parts of northern and eastern New Mexico through this 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