High pressure is currently centered over Arizona.  This is leading to fewer showers firing over New Mexico.  What storms we are seeing are developing over the high terrain of the northern mountains and Gila.  These storms will move north to south tonight over the state.  Over the next few days storms will be isolated in nature.  However, changes will begin on Friday.  High pressure will shift back to our east.  This will open the door for more moisture to surge in to the state increasing the chance of storms through the holiday weekend.

High pressure which had been sitting over Texas last week setting up a nice monsoon flow over the state has now shifted into western New Mexico.  this will not allow for as much moisture to push into the state from the south.  Hence, thunderstorm development will not be as widespread.  Look for spot storms to form mainly near mountain sections.  By the weekend the high may well shift back to the east allowing for more moisture to push back into the state.  We'll keep you posted.

After many parts of New Mexico were soaked Sunday, it appears that bit of a drying out period lies ahead.  Now this period of drier conditions will start rather slowly as a few more showers are still expected Monday afternoon.  However the overall coverage of rain showers will be much less than it was over the weekend.

While a frontal boundary coupled with moist southwest flow aloft over the weekend to generate the soaking rains, the Land of Enchantment will be depending on recycling of moisture to help generate rain showers in the days ahead.  Of course, moisture will be more plentiful as the week starts as opposed to later on in the week.  This is why we are expecting a gradual drop in overall rain coverage as the new week wears on.

Soggy weather is set to continue across a good part of New Mexico as the weekend comes to a close.  While the overall pattern is not necessarily monsoon in nature, an abundance of moisture will remain in place to fuel the showers and storms through Sunday.

A cold front managed to drop into northeast New Mexico Saturday and will be positioned across the southern portions of the state by Sunday evening.  Behind the front moist air will continue to flow in from the east.  This surface moisture will combine with lift provided by the frontal boundary to help generate the wet weather.

As we venture into the new work week, the overall coverage of showers will begin to decrease as temperatures return to near normal levels.  However, recycling of left over moisture will still provide at least a slight chance for showers daily.

The monsoon flow pattern will break down on Saturday.  Scattered storms will still be possible throughout the day.  Late Saturday night a cold front will push west to east across the state.  this front will crank up winds in the metro area early Sunday morning.  The front will also juice up the atmosphere.  So, Sunday the chance of showers will increase east to west.  Showers will continue in a recycled fashion into next week.

High pressure currently over Texas will slowly nudge westward over the next few days.  This will slowly reduce the number of storms across the state.  Scattered showers will remain possible through at least Saturday before before most of the moisture is scoured out of New Mexico.  Next week looks a bit drier.  However, stay tuned as we've seen before these things can change.

High pressure to our east continues to open the door for moisture to flow up from the south.  The position of the high is allowing for moisture to invade central and western sections.  We should continue to see a healthy crop of t-storms.  In the east we will remain drier as the proximity to the high is a bit too close to allow for a lot of thunderstorm development.  By next week high pressure will shift directly over the state shutting off the moisture and drying things out.