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WEATHER SUMMARY FOR NEW MEXICO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
521 AM MDT SAT MAY 25 2013

ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS GREETED THE EASTERN HALF
OF SO OF THE STATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW LOCATIONS
RECEIVED SOME IMPRESSIVE RAINFALL TOTALS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS DURING THE
LAST 24 HOURS RANGED FROM JUST THREE HUNDRETHS OF AN INCH AT LAS
VEGAS TO TWO TENTHS OF AN INCH AT ARTESIA...FORTY NINE HUNDRETHS
OF AN INCH AT CLAYTON...TO A HEFTY SEVENTY SIX HUNDRETHS AT DUNKEN...
WEST OF ARTESIA AND ANOTHER WHOPPING ONE INCH AND SIXTY EIGHT
HUNDRETHS AT THE RATON AIRPORT. HIGH TEMPERATURES FRIDAY WERE SEVERAL
DEGREES COOLER THAN THURSDAY/S MAXIMUMS. HIGH TEMPERATURES RANGED
WIDELY FROM A RAIN COOLED 60 DEGREES AT RATON TO 91 AT DEMING AND
LORDSBURG.

ONE MORE DAY OF SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL
GREET RESIDENTS OF EASTERN NEW MEXICO TODAY...WITH THE BEST CHANCES
FOR ISOLATED STRONG TO PERHAPS SEVERE STORMS OVER THE SOUTHEAST
PLAINS.

DRIER AIR WILL OVERSPREAD THE STATE FROM THE WEST ON SUNDAY...WITH
ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR A THUNDERSTORM OR TWO ALONG THE TEXAS
BORDER. WINDY...WARM AND DRY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED SUNDAY THROUGH
LABOR DAY...BRINGING FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS TO LIGHT BOTH DAYS.

AN UNSEASONABLY STRONG UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL APPROACH THE STATE
TUESDAY...SENDING THE ASSOCIATED SURFACE COLD FRONT THROUGH
THE STATE FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST TUESDAY NIGHT. COOLER
CONDITIONS ALONG WITH A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE
POSSIBLE JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE IN STATE WEDNESDAY. DRIER AIR
WILL MOVE IN FOR THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK BUT TEMPERATURES WILL
REMAIN BELOW AVERAGE THROUGH AT LEAST FRIDAY.

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