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WEATHER SUMMARY FOR NEW MEXICO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
545 AM MDT TUE MAY 21 2013

IT WAS A PRETTY QUIET EVENING ACROSS NEW MEXICO...BUT AS LOW
PRESSURE ALOFT STRENGTHENED SOMEWHAT LATER ON OVER NORTHEAST NEW
MEXICO FIRST SOME LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN DEVELOPED NEAR...NORTH AND
NORTHWEST OF TUCUMCARI. THEN AROUND 4 AM A BROKEN LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED FROM JUST WEST OF CLOVIS TO JUST SOUTHWEST
OF ELIDA. THESE CELLS GREW STRONG ENOUGH TO CREATE SOME PEA SIZED
HAIL IN THE CLOVIS AREA. OTHER LIGHTER SHOWERS WERE NOTED FROM
CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST SAN MIGUEL COUNTY NORTH INTO CENTRAL AND
EASTERN COLFAX COUNTY AND EAST TO NORTHERN UNION COUNTY. NO RAIN
AMOUNTS GREATER THAN A TENTH OF AN INCH WERE REPORTED THROUGH 5 AM
MDT...BUT THAT COULD CHANGE AFTER FOLKS ARE UP AND AROUND TO CHECK
THEIR RAIN GAGES. WESTERN AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE STATE NOT
ONLY SAW NO RAIN...BUT ALSO FEW CLOUDS.

TEMPERATURES MONDAY AFTERNOON WERE COOLER THAN NORMAL LATE MAY
LEVELS. FINAL HIGH TEMPERATURES REPORTED MONDAY VARIED FROM 57 AT
ANGEL FIRE TO A BLISTERING 96 AT CARLSBAD.

AFTER THE THIS MORNINGS SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORMS ACTIVITY MOVES OUT
OF THE STATE THERE WILL BE JUST ENOUGH LINGERING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE
AROUND TO REACT TO DAYTIME HEATING AND PRODUCE A FEW MORE SHOWERS
AND STORMS OVER THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON
AND EARLY EVENING.

A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER NEW MEXICO TONIGHT AND
WEDNESDAY...PUTTING THE KIBOSH ON NEARLY ALL SHOWER AND
THUNDERSTORM CHANCES...BUT ALSO WARMING AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES 5 TO
15 DEGREES OVER TODAY...THE GREATEST INCREASES OVER EASTERN NEW
MEXICO. AFTERNOON READINGS THURSDAY WILL WARM TO ABOVE AVERAGE
LEVELS FOR LATE MAY. WARM TO HOT TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH
THE END OF THE WORK WEEK AND INTO THE WEEKEND FOR MOST OF THE STATE.

GULF MOISTURE COMING NORTHWEST FROM TEXAS WILL MAKE OCCASIONAL RUNS
INTO EASTERN NEW MEXICO THURSDAY INTO AT LEAST THE WEEKEND. WITH
THIS MOISTURE SURGE ISOLATED TO AT TIMES SCATTERED LATER AFTERNOON
AND NIGHTTIME THUNDERSTORMS MAY MAKE OCCASIONAL APPEARANCES IN AT
LEAST THE EASTERN PLAINS DURING THIS PERIOD. A FEW STRONG OR PERHAPS
EVEN SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THIS SCENARIO.

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