[FRIAM] Albuquerque, NM

[Roger Critchlow]

Irene drove to Phoenix for a craft market last weekend.  She diverted into
the Gila because of wind, then overnighted in Lordsburg overlooking
hundreds of long haul truckers crammed into the Love's truck stop by I-10
closure at Tucson.  (Stuck in old Lordsburg, again?)

I was in a doctor's waiting room on Monday morning when all the phones
started receiving dust storm alerts in sequence.  I thought it was a fire
alarm at first.

We drove from Las Cruces to see a doctor in El Paso on Thursday.  We were
in a dust cloud all the way there and back, an hour on secondary roads both
ways.  Visibility less than 100 yards at times.  Like driving in a blizzard
with very fine brown snow, complete with the swirling streams crossing the
road and attempting to form drifts.

It was sunny on our way there yesterday for another doctor visit and a
visitor pickup at the airport.  But the dust came back on our way home, the
Organ Mountains were not visible as we pulled into Cruces.  I was in a
radiologist waiting room an hour later when another swarm of dust
storm warnings went off.  Visibility down to 100 yards again.  Organs still
invisible when we drove out to dinner, but the sky had finally cleared for
our drive home.

Nice today, but cold.

Need to get the mechanic to check our air filters.

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On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> I ride my bike up in the Berkeley and Oakland hills a lot.   Berkeley area
> is the worst.   On many streets, the people that live up there park their
> cars on either side of the sidewalk.  Cause it is their god given right to
> private storage on public roads.    There’s no possible way for them get
> out of there in a fire like that one using a car.  Many of those roads are
> barely even one-way as it is.
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>
> But golly, NOAA and FEMA, who needs that?
>
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> *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Nicholas Thompson <
> thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
> *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>, Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at simtable.com>
> *Subject: *[FRIAM] Albuquerque, NM
>
> https://www.weather.gov/abq/
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>
> Thanks for the heads-up!  I find those sorts of days terrify me because
> what happened in the Oakland Berkeley fire in 91 when I was there on
> sabbatical. The city burned so fast that when the trucks got the source of
> the fire in the hills, it had already burned down into to the center.  It
> took about a half an hour to burn DOWN a thousand feet.
>
>
>
> If you scroll down to the satellite map in the link above you can see the
> jet streak nosing into the sw corner of the image.  300 mb surface Image
> below shows the same thing.
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>
>
> Steve, should we be packing a go bag?
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