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this is our 3rd yr in the windy months.....stay indoors don't breath the dirt and dust.... heaven forbid you have allergies this time of yr......We are in T or C and the wind has blown every day this month....45-50mph gust all day long
I hope you're enjoying it as much as I am in Elephant Butte.
I did a load of laundry last week sometime, hung it on the clothesline and it was dried in 30 minutes, I love it. The only thing I don't like is the sand in my briefs.
This has been a mild wind year. Sure beats the snow. Allergies will improve if you eat local bee's honey: about a Tbl a day, all year around. Why stay indoors? The weather has been wonderful and wild flowers are abundant in the desert.
Is there a wind season in New Mexico? If so what months and how severe is it, on a daily basis or sporadic? I've heard Flagstaff is pretty bad in spring and in west Texas I think it is year around. Lived in Amarillo briefly and how they keep their cowboy hats on is beyond me!
Yes, it is pretty windy today, even blowing cars out of their lanes. Spring is typically the windiest (and driest) season in NM, but can get windy any time of year. Albuquerque doesn't have to deal with tornados too often, thank goodness, but with a good northeasterly, and a gigantic wall of dust, or haboob, will swallow the city and dump about 50 million tons of Rio Rancho on us.
For us, wind has been one of our biggest issues. It's really not that bad, it just changes those nice days, Threads regarding wind throughout the New Mexico forums:
Yes, it is pretty windy today, even blowing cars out of their lanes. Spring is typically the windiest (and driest) season in NM, but can get windy any time of year. Albuquerque doesn't have to deal with tornados too often, thank goodness, but with a good northeasterly, and a gigantic wall of dust, or haboob, will swallow the city and dump about 50 million tons of Rio Rancho on us.
It's slow going but Rio Rancho was developed to pave over as much of that dust as possible so Albuquerque would not be inconvenienced.
It's slow going but Rio Rancho was developed to pave over as much of that dust as possible so Albuquerque would not be inconvenienced.
I know it's not all from Rio Rancho, just from that direction. I think it's kinda cool to be honest. We really should be putting wind farms along the eastern edge of the Rio Puerco Valley though.
I know it's not all from Rio Rancho, just from that direction. I think it's kinda cool to be honest. We really should be putting wind farms along the eastern edge of the Rio Puerco Valley though.
From:
A Climatology of High Wind Warning Events for Northern and Central New Mexico: 1976-2005
Todd Shoemake, NWS WFO Albuquerque
May 2010
An initial hypothesis was considered before analyzing the directional tendencies of high wind events at Albuquerque. Although strong east wind events are common in Albuquerque, it was hypothesized that high wind events would be predominantly from a westerly and southwesterly direction. Qualitative analysis of each of the 55 high wind days (events) quickly revealed a sharp distinction between two different types of high wind events for Albuquerque. With wind direction as the sole deterministic variable, a sharp contrast was defined between easterly high wind events versus westerly high wind events. Figure 2 depicts the partition of the frequency of high wind observations by wind direction.
Rio Rancho is North, North West or even North East from Albuquerque depending on where you are standing....
Rio Rancho is North, North West or even North East from Albuquerque depending on where you are standing....
Whenever I see a haboob, it always seems to come in from the north, from my perspective on the west side, yet even strong westerly's produce localizes dust storms at best. Why is that? is it just sandier to the north?
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