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Looks like N.M. might be in for some Rain this Weekend. I guess we can safely say the Monsoons are here. The Temp is 61 degrees right now at 6 30 pm but will probably get in the 40s in the Northern Part of N.M. Starting the end of this month the temps will start dropping and then the Snow comes in October. I can hardly wait to watch the Rain Turn to Snow. pintada kid at webtv.net
We actually received a very little rain last night...first in several weeks. They keep predicting it for us, but, all we've gotten this year out of the monsoon season is humidity.
But it's a dry heat..............I've been in Houston or Dallas where the humidity is 90 and the temp is 105 and somehow it is different here. A little rain here goes a long ways towards greening thing up. Then the humidity doesn't last.
A couple of years ago the Center of N.M. had about 50 inches of rain in a years time the best on record i would think. This year we have only had about 8 inches or a little more but the years not over. We need plenty of Rain and Snow in the Mountain Desert to fill up our Aquifers and to sustain all these people that want to move here from both Coasts. pintada kid at webtv.net
A couple of years ago the Center of N.M. had about 50 inches of rain in a years time the best on record i would think. pintada kid at webtv.net
50 inches? I find that very difficult to believe. That's a whole lot of rain. That's more than Houston gets in an average year, and it rains all the time in Houston. There would have to have been catastrophic flooding in the "Center of N.M."
50 inches? I find that very difficult to believe. That's a whole lot of rain. That's more than Houston gets in an average year, and it rains all the time in Houston. There would have to have been catastrophic flooding in the "Center of N.M."
Two years ago we received 20 inches, or more than double what we normally receive, in Las Cruces, due to the monsoons in early August. I think August 1st 2006 was the day when El Paso made national news because of flooding on the Rio Grande. Additionally, that was the year Hatch was swamped. But 50 inches? I think maybe, just maybe in some of the weather stations that are the tops of summits, where there is naturally more precipitation, but you are right Domino, 50 inches is a lot of rain for NM.
Im talking in a 12 month period we were getting 3 and 4 inches at a time and even 7 or 8 inches in one day that we received and it rained most of the Summer im not even counting all the snow we had. This was in the center of N.M. and since i live on top of a hill this area doesnt flood too easy at 6000 feet its higher then Denver and Denver is a Mile high. el pintada kid
It has been a very wet summer in the southern Sacramento Mountains this year. Our neighborhood association weather station recorded just short of 22" of rain in July. This was at an elevation of ~8,000 ft. I haven't seen the accumulated total for August, it has also been very rainy.
I can see the possibility of 50 inches of rain in a year, at higher elevations.
After the dry, dry spring I say....Let it RAIN! Let it RAIN! Let it RAIN!
The forest and meadows are a thousand shades of green and wonderful.
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