Challenging record high temperatures into the weekend as skies stay dry (2025)

ON THIS THURSDAY MORNING. THAT’S DOWNTOWN ALBUQUERQUE IN VIEW. NICE AND QUIET OUT THERE, AND TEMPERATURES ARE PRETTY SWEET THIS MORNING. WE’RE CLOSE TO 50 DEGREES IN ALBUQUERQUE. THE AFTERNOON HAS US CHALLENGING RECORD HIGHS IN SOME SPOTS, AND THAT’S GOING TO BE THE STORY GOING FORWARD FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. SOME BOUTS OF BREEZY AND WINDY CONDITIONS THAT WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT. RAIN CHANCES ACTUALLY IN PLAY NEXT WEEK. THEY DO LOOK PRETTY LOW NOW. THE STORM TRACK IS STILL TO OUR NORTH. A CLUSTER OF STORM SYSTEMS HERE IN THE MIDWEST AND OHIO VALLEY REGION, THOUGH, IS GOING TO WORK TO PUSH A COLD FRONT, A WEAK ONE BACK OUR WAY, AND THAT’S GOING TO RESULT IN A LITTLE WIND OVERNIGHT. MORE POWERFUL STORM SYSTEM IN FRONT OUT IN THE PACIFIC. AND THAT BY THE WEEKEND IS GOING TO TRY TO PUSH THROUGH AND BRING SOME STRONGER WIND CONDITIONS. GENERALLY, THOUGH, TODAY SUNSHINE PAIRED WITH THE WARM TEMPERATURES. WE’RE BACK IN THE 70S AND 80S, WARMER SPOTS DOWN SOUTH APPROACHED 90 DEGREES. THIS WEAK FRONT NUDGES BACK TOWARDS ALBUQUERQUE THIS EVENING. AND SO WE’VE GOT AFTERNOON WIND SPEEDS. PRETTY FRIENDLY. BUT WATCH WHAT HAPPENS THIS EVENING AND INTO THE FIRST HALF OF THE OVERNIGHT WITH THAT WEAK COLD FRONT. 9:00 WINDS GUSTING TO 20 AND PEAK WIND GUSTS JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT LOOK TO BE IN THE 25 TO 30 RANGE HERE THROUGH SANTA FE AND ALBUQUERQUE. THERE WILL BE THOSE EAST WINDS THAT PUSH BACK THROUGH THE CANYON AND TRY TO OVERTOP THE MOUNTAIN, WITH PROBABLY LITTLE SUCCESS INTO DAYBREAK FRIDAY. YOU CAN SEE THOSE WINDS. THEY’RE ALREADY IN THE PROCESS OF SETTLING DOWN. NOW, AS WE TALK ABOUT OVERNIGHT LOW TEMPERATURES, THE COLD SPOTS WILL BE DOWN IN THE 30S, BUT A LOT OF US WILL HOLD IN THE 40S AND 50S AS THOSE BREEZES KICK UP OVERNIGHT. NOW, TOMORROW WE DO HAVE TEMPERATURES 1 OR 2 WARMER THAN TODAY. SKIES DRY AND MOSTLY SUNNY. REALLY LOOKS LIKE A PRETTY WEATHER FRIENDLY FRIDAY WITH JUST A LITTLE HIGH CLOUD COVER PUSHING IN AROUND THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN EDGES OF THE STATE. WE WILL CATCH SOME MORE NOTICEABLE BREEZES BY APRIL STANDARDS. THESE NUMBERS NOT TOO BAD, BUT WE DO GUST INTO THE 20S AND ALL THOSE GREEN SHADED AREAS. NOW WE LOOK AHEAD TOWARDS SATURDAY, PROBABLY THE WARMEST OR HOTTEST DAY GOING FORWARD OF THE NEXT SEVERAL. NEAR 90 IN ALBUQUERQUE, CLOSE TO 100 DEGREES AROUND ROSWELL. WIDESPREAD RECORD BREAKING HIGH TEMPERATURES ON SATURDAY WITH DRY AND SUNNY OR MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES. A WIND GUSTS 20 AND 30 ON SATURDAY, AND THE STRONGEST SPOTS THE EXPECTATION WITH THAT WIND ON SATURDAY, PAIRED WITH THE RECORD WARMTH AND THE BONE DRY CONDITIONS, IS THAT WE’VE ALREADY GOT FIRE WEATHER WATCHES ISSUED FOR MANY NEW MEXICO COMMUNITIES ON SATURDAY. THESE WILL LIKELY BE UPGRADED, I GUESS, IF WE CAN CALL IT THAT, TO RED FLAG WARNINGS. THAT’S THE NEXT DAY WITH THE CRITICALLY DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. NORTHWEST NEW MEXICO, FOUR CORNERS RINGING IN THOSE AFTERNOON HIGHS TODAY RIGHT AROUND 80 DEGREES, GIVE OR TAKE A COUPLE WARMER FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND THEN ON SUNDAY. THAT’S PROBABLY THE DAY WITH STRONGER WINDS HERE IN NORTHWEST NEW MEXICO, THERE IS A DROP INTO THE LOWER 70S NEXT WEEK, MAYBE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN ON TUESDAY. SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO IT’S 80 TO NEAR 90 DEGREE HIGH TEMPERATURES. TODAY. WE CREEP UP A LITTLE BIT FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND THEN TURN DOWN THE NUMBERS SLIGHTLY SUNDAY INTO NEXT WEEK. WE SETTLE INTO A STRETCH WHERE WE’RE IN THE 70S FOR SEVERAL DAYS. TUESDAY BE THE ONE DAY WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE AT RAIN. IT LOOKS LIKE SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO, NOT QUITE AS WARM AS YESTERDAY, BUT CLOSE. WE TRADE THOSE UPPER 80S AND LOWER 90S FOR MIDDLE 80S TODAY AROUND ROSWELL AND CARLSBAD. KEEP IN THE MIDDLE 80S TOMORROW AND THEN SATURDAY SUNDAY. HIGHS NEAR 100 DEGREES. THOSE ARE BOTH RECORD BREAKERS BY LIKE FIVE DEGREES IN ROSWELL ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. THIS IS NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO, 70 OR ABOVE THIS AFTERNOON, AND WE TURN THE TEMPERATURES UP FRIDAY AND AGAIN SATURDAY. BREEZY TO WINDY SATURDAY. SUNDAY PROBABLY THE WINDIER OF THE TWO DAYS. THERE’S A DROP INTO THE 60S IN THIS CORNER OF THE STATE COMING ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY. MAYBE SHOWER CHANCE. THIS IS NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO AND HERE WE ARE AROUND TAOS, LOS ALAMOS, SANTA FE, WELL INTO THE 70S, TOUCHING 80 IN THE ESPANOLA VALLEY, TURNING UP THE WARMTH JUST A LITTLE BIT. OUR FIRST 80 DEGREE DAY COULD COME ON SATURDAY AND SANTA FE A DROP INTO THE LOWER 70S, THOUGH, IS EXPECTED NEXT WEEK. HERE’S THE ALBUQUERQUE METRO AND WE HIT 81 YESTERDAY. FIRST 80 DEGREE DAY OF THE YEAR SHOULD BEAT THAT BY ONE THIS AFTERNOON AND HIT 82. WE’RE WAY ABOVE THAT AVERAGE HIGH OF 69 RECORDS LARGE THOUGH TODAY AT 89 DEGREES. SO WE’RE NOT GOING TO GET CLOSE TO THAT. BUT TOMORROW’S 83 TWO SHY OF THE RECORD. SATURDAY’S 87 THREE ABOVE THE CURRENT RECORD. SUNDAY’S 82, TWO SHY OF THE RECORD. WE DO HAVE WEEKEND WIND, BREEZY SATURDAY, A LITTLE WINDIER SUNDAY AND THEN NEXT WEEK WE’