[FRIAM] The Dry line.

[cody dooderson]

Albuquerque is on the wet side of the dry line this morning.
It has been raining all day, which is very nice. How long do you think this
weather pattern will last?

On Sun, Jun 9, 2024, 8:47 PM Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at simtable.com>
wrote:

> Thank you, Nick. I appreciate your interpretations.
>
> Here's two videos of storm development over the Sangres today - curious on
> your thoughts.
>
>    - Los Alamos looking east toward Sangres
>    <https://playground.realtime.earth/incidents/SantaFeStorm_20240609/LosAlamos1_2024_161_13-2024_162_0.mp4>
>    - Santa Fe looking northeast toward Aspen Vista
>    <https://playground.realtime.earth/incidents/SantaFeStorm_20240609/TreeHouse_2024_161_13-2024_162_0.mp4>
>
>
> -Stephen
>
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2024 at 11:29 AM Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>> Be sure to draw the 50 degree dewpoint contour.  It is pushing into the
>> Northern RG valley.
>> [image: image.png]
>> Note the flow of higher dewpoint air westward along I-40, coming into ABQ
>> as an east canyon wind.
>>
>> The eye candy tells it all.
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>>
>> 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!
>>
>>
>> https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G16&sector=sr&band=09&length=24
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> NWS ABQ is quite bullinsh about weather for today.
>>
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Despite the hundreds of cards and letters I have received asking me to
>> continue this service, I am probably going to run out
>> steam in the next few days, or so.  I hope to see this current event
>> through.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>>
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