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WEATHER SUMMARY FOR NEW MEXICO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
530 PM MST MON NOV 23 2009

AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE...COMBINED WITH A SURFACE COLD FRONT... 
CROSSED NEW MEXICO TODAY. THERE WERE ONLY A FEW HIGH CLOUDS WITH THE 
FRONT...BUT ALSO SOME GUSTY WINDS. A PEAK WIND GUST OF 47 MPH WAS 
RECORDED AT LAS VEGAS AND RATON...WHILE CLINES CORNERS PEAKED AT 44 
MPH. TEMPERATURES WERE NOTICEABLY COOLER TODAY ACROSS THE NORTHWEST 
PORTION OF THE STATE. HIGHS WERE IN THE 40S IN THE MOUNTAINS AND 
NORTHWEST...WITH 50S AND 60S ELSEWHERE...EXCEPT 70S OVER THE 
SOUTHEAST PLAINS. EXTREMES REPORTED SO FAR RANGE FROM 46 AT TAOS 
TO 77 IN CARLSBAD. LOWS THIS MORNING VARIED FROM 9 AT CHAMA TO 34 AT 
CLAYTON. 

WITH CLEAR SKIES AND DIMINISHING WINDS TONIGHT LOW TEMPERATURES WILL 
TUMBLE TO CHILLY LEVELS. LOWS WILL BE AROUND ZERO IN THE NORTHERN 
MOUNTAINS...SINGLE DIGITS IN THE WESTERN HIGH TERRAIN...AND TEENS
TO 20S ELSEWHERE. 

HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE STATE TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. 
MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES...LIGHT WINDS...DRY AIR...AND NEAR SEASONABLE  
TEMPERATURES WILL BE THE RESULT. OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS 
WILL MAKE FOR VERY COLD MORNING LOWS IN VALLEY LOCALES...ESPECIALLY 
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY MORNING.

A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL CROSS THE STATE ON FRIDAY BUT 
ONLY PRODUCE SOME HIGHER LEVEL CLOUDS AND INCREASED BREEZES. 

EXTENDED COMPUTER MODELS ARE STILL IN GOOD AGREEMENT ON THE 
DEVELOPMENT OF A WINTER STORM LATE THIS WEEKEND. IT IS TOO EARLY 
TO DETERMINE HOW STRONG OR EXACTLY WHERE THIS SYSTEM WILL END UP. 
HOWEVER...WIDESPREAD SNOW AND MUCH COLDER TEMPERATURES WILL BE A 
POSSIBILITY WITH THIS STORM. THOSE WITH TRAVEL PLANS FOR THE END 
OF THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND SHOULD KEEP A WATCHFUL EYE ON THE LATEST 
FORECASTS THROUGHOUT THE WEEK.

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