Drier air will limit monsoon storms through Thursday afternoon. Storms that do develop could still drop locally heavy rainfall, especially in the mountains.
Quieter and warmer weather has moved into New Mexico Tuesday. Fewer monsoon storms have developed today, with isolated storms mainly across the mountains of northern, western, and central New Mexico, along with the Sacramento Mountains. Thankfully, there has been no flash flooding so far today. Storms will all end after sunset tonight.
If you’ve bee noticing the haze in the skies today across New Mexico, it’s thanks to wildfires burning in western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. With high pressure to the west of us, this haze will continue across New Mexico through the end of this week, possibly into the weekend.
More showers and storms will develop Wednesday and Thursday afternoon, but mainly across the high elevations and mountains of southwestern, central, and northern New Mexico, along with the Sacramento Mountains again. The threat of burn scar flash flooding will stay low though. Temperatures will also continue to heat up, with dry weather for the eastern half of the state.
Rain chances increase for the Rio Grande Valley and more of western, northern, and central New Mexico Friday afternoon as more monsoon moisture moves back into the state. This rain chances will move into northeast New Mexico by Saturday, but northwestern and west-central parts of the state will dry out. Much drier air returns to almost all of New Mexico starting Sunday as high pressure begins building overhead. This will start a period of hotter and drier weather that will continue into the middle of next week.
