A high fire danger returns to New Mexico Wednesday and Thursday. Westerly winds will gust as high as 45 mph Wednesday and as high as 55 mph Thursday. #NMFire #NMwx

Freezing temperatures are on the way to parts of New Mexico Saturday morning. Freeze Warnings go into effect tonight.

Freezing temperatures are also likely in parts of the Albuquerque Metro, especially along the river and on the Westside.
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Big dust devil today in Rio Rancho! #NMwx

Westerly winds could gust as high as 30 to 50 mph across New Mexico Friday afternoon. That with low humidity will bring a critical fire danger across parts of the state. #NMwx

The Taos Ski Valley has picked up 5" of snow in the last 24 hours! #NMwx

Check out this time lapse of lenticular clouds east of the Sandias today! You can also watch as rain move in at the end of the time lapse. #NMwx

Snow is coming down right now at Ski Santa Fe! #NMwx

An outflow boundary has kicked up quite a bit of blowing dust into the Albuquerque Metro! A Blowing Dust Advisory is in effect until 5:15 pm. #NMwx

Some much-needed rain is on the way to parts of New Mexico Friday and Saturday. A few thunderstorms Saturday afternoon may even turn severe in southeast New Mexico.

Best chance for rain/storms in the ABQ Metro will be Friday afternoon.
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That's an epic shot!

March 2026 was *by far* the hottest in New Mexico's recorded history - 4.4º warmer than the previous record. The statewide average March temperature has never been above 51.2º and this year was 55.6º. It also tied for the 2nd driest March on record.
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It’s been a while since we’ve had skies like this over Albuquerque! Also, check out that lightning bolt on the other side of the Sandias! #NMwx

Big, fluffy snowflakes are coming down at the Taos Ski Valley right now! #NMwx

Snow fell last night on Sierra Blanca Peak in the Sacramento Mountains in southern New Mexico! #NMwx

Probably not much for this summer, but typically means a wetter/snowier winter!

Took a quick trip out of town this weekend… it was so nice to see the snow covering the peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains again!

Earthquake!
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has been reported at 2:01 pm MDT, north of Carlsbad, NM. The earthquake was at a depth of 10.9 km. Shaking has been reported as far away as Roswell, Cloudcroft, and Hobbs.

The NM state forester is enacting statewide fire restrictions to reduce the risk of wildfires.

Smoking, fireworks, campfires, prescribed, open, agricultural/debris burning, and flaring of gas is prohibited on non-municipal, non-federal, and non-Tribal lands.

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Freezing temperatures are likely tonight in parts of northern, central, & western New Mexico. Even parts of the Albuquerque Metro may drop below freezing.

March’s historic heat is leading to Freeze Warnings 2 to 6 weeks earlier than the average last freeze in some areas.
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"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." - Carl Sagan, 1994

Outlooks from the National Interagency Coordination Center highlight parts of New Mexico for above normal significant wildland fire potential in April, May, and June. The potential should improve in July as the monsoon kicks in. #NMwx

Wednesday's storm was enough to give a little boost to New Mexico's snowpack. Not enough to bring it out of the lowest on record, but enough to slow down the trend for earliest melt off on record. #NMwx

Albuquerque had *by far* the hottest March on record, beating the old record by 6.5°.

The average temperature was 4.5° warmer than *April's* average.

13 of the 31 days broke record high temperatures.
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The Taos Ski Valley measuring 11" of snow with today's storm system! #NMwx

This is no April Fools' joke!

For the first time since mid-February, we are actually seeing rain in New Mexico! More rain will move in through the day before clearing out tonight. Snow is also falling above 10,000'!
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Hard to believe it’s March 31 and the cacti is already starting to bloom! #NMwx

Most places that will pick up rainfall tonight into Wednesday haven't seen any measurable precipitation since mid February. #NMwx

Winter isn't quite over just yet in New Mexico! Snow is falling across the peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Heavier snow will fall tonight into Wednesday above 9,500' with 6"+ above 11,000'! #NMwx

Rain chances finally return to New Mexico this week!
A storm will bring light rain Tue. & Wed. Light snow is likely in the northern mtns.
For many places in western, central, and northern New Mexico, this will be the first measurable rainfall since the middle of February.
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A grass fire near Dexter, NM ended up burning several structures, vehicles and junk piles. Crews worked for several hours to put out the fire. Looks like they are just mopping it up now and looking for hot spots. 11.2 acres were burned. #NMFire #NMwx