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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>We have to stop meeting like this. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><img width=473 height=353 style='width:4.9236in;height:3.6805in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:ii_lx978eex5"><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This has to be the most comical cold front rendition I have ever seen. "Hey, it must be in here some where so let's draw a straight line up the rockies". The location of the dry line has become muddled. Let's draw the 50 degree dewpoint line on the nm state map.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><img width=746 height=537 style='width:7.7708in;height:5.5902in' id="Picture_x0020_8" src="cid:image001.png@01DABB3E.77ABB880"><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>note that when you do this, there is an alarming puddle of dry air in eastern new mexico. Otherwise, dry line does seem mostly to be in western NM. A look at the <a href="https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/standard/SOUTHROCKIES_loop.gif?foo=0.277542547080605">radar loop</a> makes clear what is going on. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><img border=0 width=419 height=466 style='width:4.368in;height:4.8541in' id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:ii_lx98w85t6"><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Note the cyclonic curl over east central nm. That is drawing in high dewpoint air from N and E but dryer air from wsw. This is a Teensy feature but the rest of your day’s weather will depend on whether it develop and where it moves. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The water vapor <a href="https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/GOES16_sector_band.php?sector=sr&band=09&length=24">loop</a> makes a particularly dramatic presentation of it. Clouds in green and white, unobstructed watervapor in yellow and blue. Note ctr of circulation E of ABQ. Here is a still if you cant get the loop to work.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=822 height=687 style='width:8.5625in;height:7.1597in' id="Picture_x0020_9" src="cid:image002.png@01DABB3F.5D6CB4F0"><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Let me know how it comes out. I think one thing that is generally true is that once you get water into the RG valley it tends to recirculate for a few days, and yet afternoon showers. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>N<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>n<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Jun 9, 2024 at 1:29<span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span>PM Nicholas Thompson <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" target="_blank">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Rainy day in the mosquito infested swamp, first in two weeks. A "back door front" has pushed into New England from the NE, and we have actually turned the heat on. Similarly, a back door front has pushed into NE NM, loosening the gradient of the dryline. Summer cold fronts are ambiguous with respect to moisture, being moister than desert air but dryer than gulf air. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=453 height=310 style='width:4.7222in;height:3.2291in' id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:ii_lx7pkeh00"><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Be sure to draw the 50 degree dewpoint contour. It is pushing into the Northern RG valley. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=472 height=369 style='width:4.9166in;height:3.8472in' id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:ii_lx7sljfs1"><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Note the flow of higher dewpoint air westward along I-40, coming into ABQ as an east canyon wind. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The eye candy tells it all. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><img border=0 width=429 height=387 style='width:4.4722in;height:4.0347in' id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:ii_lx7smo842"><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Will there be clouds in santa fe today? This seems the classic monsoon situation. I hope you can see this water vapor time lapse. Really dramatic!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G16§or=sr&band=09&length=24" target="_blank">https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G16§or=sr&band=09&length=24</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Low pressure cyclonic circulation over Northern Mexico, most air streaming NW into New Mexico, being forced upward by the topography. Now we have the added feature of the back door cold front. Probably not the day to plan a fishing trip down stea of a burn scar. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>NWS ABQ is quite bullinsh about weather for today. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><img border=0 width=473 height=222 style='width:4.9236in;height:2.3125in' id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:ii_lx7sxzt83"><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Oh, and by the way: heres the skewT for ABQ today, just in case anybody is curious. I wish somebody wise would put me out of my misery and explain these things to me. It does not look like a particularly rainish sounding to me, but WDIK. Not much, that's for sure. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Despite the hundreds of cards and letters I have received asking me to continue this service, I am probably going to run out<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>steam in the next few days, or so. I hope to see this current event through. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Nick <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>