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NMZ001>034-302330-
WEATHER SUMMARY FOR NEW MEXICO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
530 AM MDT SAT AUG 30 2008
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FRIDAY AFTERNOON INTO THE
EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS OVER SOME NORTHERN AND EASTERN NEW
MEXICO LOCATIONS. SOME FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN BOTH COLFAX AND
ROOSEVELT COUNTIES. IN COLFAX COUNTY OF NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO...
AREAS NEAR AND EAST OF CIMARRON RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL THAT FLOODED
MANY ROADWAYS NEAR AND INCLUDING HIGHWAY 64. STRONG STORMS CONTINUED
TO DEVELOP ALONG AND EAST OF THE SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS
WHERE OVER TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL WAS REPORTED IN SOME LOCALES.
IN ROOSEVELT COUNTY IN THE EASTERN PLAINS...FLASH FLOODING WAS
REPORTED NEAR HIGHWAY 206 NEAR THE TOWN OF DORA. BY THE EARLY
MORNING HOURS...A FEW STORMS WERE ONGOING OVER NORTHWESTERN NEW
MEXICO...AND ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHWESTWARD
OUT OF TEXAS AND INTO THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF NEW MEXICO.
COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF CLOUD COVER WERE OBSERVED OVER MUCH OF THE STATE
THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS AS WELL...WITH A FEW CENTRAL AREAS
FINALLY SHOWING SIGNS OF CLEARING BY 5 AM. TEMPERATURES WERE DOWN
INTO THE UPPER 30S AND LOWER 40S IN THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS AND THE
SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE STATE REMAINED IN THE 60S.
MORE WIDESPREAD SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TODAY
WITH THE BEST CHANCES FOR RAIN REMAINING IN THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF NEW
MEXICO. ELSEWHERE STORMS WILL ALSO BE MORE NUMEROUS THAN IN THE PAST
COUPLE OF DAYS...AND TEMPERATURES WILL GENERALLY BE 3 TO 5 DEGREES
COOLER IN MOST LOCATIONS. STORMS WILL INCREASE EVEN MORE OVER THE
WESTERN HALF OF THE STATE ON SUNDAY AND TEMPERATURES WILL DECREASE
A FEW MORE DEGREES AS WELL. THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL WILL
EXIST FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEW MEXICO. ANOTHER WET DAY
IS EXPECTED ON LABOR DAY AS THE PLACEMENT OF STORMS SHIFTS EASTWARD
AND COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES PREVAIL.
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