More storms and heavy rain returns to parts of New Mexico Thursday. This will bring back a threat of burn scar flash flooding through Friday.
More storms have developed Wednesday afternoon across northern and western New Mexico thanks to northerly winds drawing down more moisture into the state today. Storms have also developed in the Sacramento Mountains, causing a Flash Flood Warning for the Salt Fire, south of Ruidoso. It’s also been hot today, with temperatures climbing into the mid and upper 90s for many, and widespread triple-digits in eastern New Mexico. Showers and thunderstorms will be wrapping up through the evening, with an isolated rain chance in the Albuquerque Metro. Rain will end overnight.
A backdoor cold front will start moving into northeast New Mexico tonight, pushing up against the east slopes of the Sangre de Cristo, Sandia, and Manzano Mountains by Thursday morning. This will bring an increase in low level moisture, and bring the threat of heavy rainfall, especially to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains Thursday afternoon. Heavy rainfall will likely cause burn scar flash flooding. Flash flooding in the Ruidoso area will also be possible. Scattered to widespread showers and storms will also develop across the rest of northern, western, and central New Mexico Thursday afternoon. High temperatures will be a couple degrees cooler. Some showers and storms may stick around through late Thursday night.
Another push of moisture will move west across New Mexico Friday morning. This will again set the stage for more widespread to scattered showers and thunderstorms by Friday afternoon. There will once again be a threat of heavy rainfall, which could lead to flash flooding, especially over burn scar areas.
Drier air quickly returns Saturday, shifting rain chances to mainly far northern New Mexico. Temperatures will start heating up again this weekend. However, another plume of monsoon moisture will start moving into New Mexico again on Sunday, bringing back chances of storms to western New Mexico. More monsoon moisture will continue to move into the state early next week, bringing more afternoon storm chances into the middle of next week.
