NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Slightly-muggier conditions are present with rain-free conditions now across New Mexico with gustier easterly gap winds for a few areas. Above-freezing temperatures are even confined to most of the higher peaks of the Northern Mountains with valley floor locations mostly starting off in the 40s, while elsewhere is mostly starting off in the 50s, 60s, and low 70s.

Less-persistent upper-level westerly winds with not much moisture, along with a high pressure system around the region, will combine with the daytime heating, as well as with just enough lingering low-level moisture to the east, to produce a very few storms in the mountains to East New Mexico today. Elsewhere, some clouds will pass on through with temperatures, although not as high as yesterday in northern areas, still reaching well into the 80s, 90s, and above 100 degrees for most central to southern areas, while some northern areas won’t get out of the 70s.

Drier air aloft is ahead, but the pendulum swing pattern of muggy mornings with breezy easterly winds shifting to southwesterly drier winds in the afternoons forming storms to the east will continue ahead. Above-normal temperatures will continue but a slight nudge in the jet stream will allow for temperatures to rise a little bit by the first day of summer with the elevated fire threat. 

Monsoon storms will then become more likely later this weekend with an eventual relief from the heat.