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!
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