Wet Wave Train Through Weekend, Bahama Upper Low, Santa Fe Sunshine

 Seeing what's happening back home, I feel a little guilty spending a week in sunshine in Albuquerque & Santa Fe.  We did see some rain over the mountains yesterday on our trip up to Taos, which is another neat town with a downtown square devoted to galleries & restaurants.  One of the special treats was going over the Mini gorge of the Rio Grande River similar to the great Royal Gorge in Colorado.

The clearness of the bright blue skies is stunning.  With humidity's less that 20%, we have no haze resulting in unlimited visibilities. Contrast that to back home in NOLA where a persistent upper trough over the Rockies is sending a moist SW upper flow with embedded disturbance.

With the nose of the surface Bermuda high extending westward over the Gulf, it's created a stalled boundary that is sending waves of energy over us.  That triggers rounds of daily rains with above normal rain coverage.  Until the upper pattern changes, we have a wet Memorial Weekend forecast that will end any drought concerns.  The WPC's 7 day rain totals have shifted southward over most of Louisiana with amounts of 5-10" possible.

You need to pay attention to the weather as these waves of storms will create short term street flooding.

Last night in Santa Fe dipped into the upper 40s with wind.  I won't feel this cold again until November!  I'm back Saturday night and I hope weather isn't an issue in our landing.  Stay tuned and stay dry!

Hello Santa Fe, Almost Hot Again, Non-Tropical Low East of Florida

 As a sign of the approaching hurricane season, a cluster of T-Storms has formed along an old frontal boundary over the eastern Bahamas.  This is associated with an upper low surrounded by a lot of wind shear.  NHC isn't talking about it since none of the models do anything with it.

Mean while, back over the lower 48, a persistent upper trough remains anchored over the Rockies bringing them Winter like weather with snow at the higher elevations.  An upper ridge covers the eastern 2/3rds of the U.S. bringing summer-like temps and spotty daytime heating showers.  Along the frontal boundary, some of the storms are severe as SPC indicates.  The top is for today with the bottom valid for Tuesday.

Over time, this boundary will slowly sink closer to us, but the cold front will likely stall to our north.

90s have made their way up into New York while the northern Rockies are in the 30s & 40s.  A slow moving front often means excessive rainfall and WPC's 7 day rainfall totals exceed 5-10" to our north & west.

70+ dew points are into Arkansas with 60+ up to Green Bay.  Without any fronts around us, our rain chances will be driven by daytime heating.

I don't see a real increase in daily storms here until towards the end of the week.  Some locations did hit 90 today.

The FOX 8 extended is way more aggressive than me.  Perhaps way north of Lake P. you'll see 60% rain coverage Wed-Thursday, but not south of the Lake.  We'll see.  Finally, you know I'm in Albuquerque & Santa Fe this week.  My middle son (Ryan) turns 51 today and we are making it a week long celebration. Santa Fe has a wonderful Cathedral & a lovely downtown shopping area, plus views are magnificent from a roof top bar.

Ryan is on the far right in bottom picture.    I'll have more pictures in the coming days as Valerie is getting to know my family.  We plan on doing a podcast for those who have never been to New Mexico.  Stay tuned!