Station Overview Station Location
Station Number NM-BR-40 Latitude 35.0831
Station Name ALbuquerque 8.1 ESE Longitude -106.4869
County Bernalillo Elevation (ft) 5961



Month 30 Yr Avg by PRISM Total Prcp Sum Days Covered By All Observations Daily Prcp Sum Daily Observation Count Multiday Prcp Sum Days Covered by Multiday Observations Multiday Observation Count Days With Prcp Days With Trace Total Snowfall Days With Snowfall Days With Snow On Ground
Oct 09 1.55 2.23 31 2.23 31 0.00 0 0 7 2 2.1 3 1
Nov 09 0.66 0.44 30 0.44 30 0.00 0 0 3 1 0.7 1 1
Dec 09 1.08 0.58 31 0.58 29 0.00 2 1 7 1 9.1 6 7
Jan 10 0.52 0.99 30 0.99 30 0.00 0 0 5 4 1.5 2 8
Feb 10 0.70 0.56 28 0.56 28 0.00 0 0 5 4 2.7 4 3
March 10 1.06 1.06 31 1.06 31 0.00 0 0 9 2 7.9 8 5
April 10 1.14 0.76 30 0.76 30 0.00 0 0 4 3 0.2 1 0
May 10 0.68 0.11 29 0.11 29 0.00 0 0 2 2 0.0 0 0
June 10 0.97 0.59 28 0.59 28 0.00 0 0 4 2 0.0 0 0
July 10 2.25 3.25 31 3.25 31 0.00 0 0 10 6 0.0 0 0
Aug 10 2.64 3.03 29 2.97 17 0.06 12 2 7 2 0.0 0 0
Sept 10 1.41 2.24 28 2.24 28 0.00 0 0 3 1 0.0 0 0
Water Year Totals: 14.66" 15.84" 356 days 15.78" 342 0.06" 14 days 3 66 days 30 days 24.2" 25 days 25 days



Days in Water Year Cell Color Key
        Daily Observation with Prcp         Missing Day
        Multiday Observation         Daily/Multiday Observation Conflict

Day of Year Daily Prcp Multiday Prcp
10/1/2009 0.00
10/2/2009 0.00
10/3/2009 0.00
10/4/2009 0.00
10/5/2009 0.00
10/6/2009 0.00
10/7/2009 0.19
10/8/2009 0.11
10/9/2009 T
10/10/2009 0.00
10/11/2009 0.00
10/12/2009 0.00
10/13/2009 0.00
10/14/2009 T
10/15/2009 0.00
10/16/2009 0.00
10/17/2009 0.00
10/18/2009 0.00
10/19/2009 0.00
10/20/2009 0.00
10/21/2009 1.08
10/22/2009 0.34
10/23/2009 0.00
10/24/2009 0.00
10/25/2009 0.00
10/26/2009 0.00
10/27/2009 0.00
10/28/2009 0.28
10/29/2009 0.19
10/30/2009 0.04
10/31/2009 0.00
11/1/2009 0.00
11/2/2009 0.00
11/3/2009 0.00
11/4/2009 0.00
11/5/2009 0.00
11/6/2009 0.00
11/7/2009 0.00
11/8/2009 0.00
11/9/2009 0.00
11/10/2009 0.00
11/11/2009 0.00
11/12/2009 0.00
11/13/2009 0.00
11/14/2009 0.02
11/15/2009 0.09
11/16/2009 T
11/17/2009 0.00
11/18/2009 0.00
11/19/2009 0.00
11/20/2009 0.00
11/21/2009 0.00
11/22/2009 0.00
11/23/2009 0.00
11/24/2009 0.00
11/25/2009 0.00
11/26/2009 0.00
11/27/2009 0.00
11/28/2009 0.00
11/29/2009 0.33
11/30/2009 0.00
12/1/2009 0.00
12/2/2009 0.00
12/3/2009 T
12/4/2009 0.04
12/5/2009 0.00
12/6/2009 0.00
12/7/2009 0.00
12/8/2009 0.16
12/9/2009 0.00
12/10/2009 0.00
12/11/2009 0.00
12/12/2009 0.00
12/13/2009 0.00
12/14/2009 0.01
12/15/2009 0.00
12/16/2009 0.00
12/17/2009 0.00
12/18/2009 0.00
12/19/2009 0.00
12/20/2009 0.00
12/21/2009 0.00
12/22/2009 0.00
12/23/2009 0.16
12/24/2009 0.04
12/25/2009 0.00
12/26/2009 **
12/27/2009 0.00
12/28/2009 0.00
12/29/2009 0.00
12/30/2009 0.05
12/31/2009 0.12
Day of YearDaily PrcpMultiday Prcp
1/1/2010 0.00
1/2/2010 0.00
1/3/2010 0.00
1/4/2010
1/5/2010 0.00
1/6/2010 0.00
1/7/2010 0.00
1/8/2010 0.00
1/9/2010 0.00
1/10/2010 0.00
1/11/2010 0.00
1/12/2010 0.00
1/13/2010 0.00
1/14/2010 T
1/15/2010 0.00
1/16/2010 0.00
1/17/2010 0.00
1/18/2010 0.00
1/19/2010 0.32
1/20/2010 T
1/21/2010 0.00
1/22/2010 0.32
1/23/2010 0.29
1/24/2010 0.04
1/25/2010 0.00
1/26/2010 0.00
1/27/2010 0.00
1/28/2010 T
1/29/2010 0.02
1/30/2010 T
1/31/2010 0.00
2/1/2010 0.00
2/2/2010 0.00
2/3/2010 0.00
2/4/2010 0.33
2/5/2010 0.00
2/6/2010 0.00
2/7/2010 0.00
2/8/2010 0.11
2/9/2010 0.02
2/10/2010 0.00
2/11/2010 T
2/12/2010 0.00
2/13/2010 0.00
2/14/2010 0.00
2/15/2010 0.00
2/16/2010 T
2/17/2010 0.00
2/18/2010 0.00
2/19/2010 0.00
2/20/2010 0.00
2/21/2010 T
2/22/2010 0.01
2/23/2010 0.09
2/24/2010 0.00
2/25/2010 0.00
2/26/2010 T
2/27/2010 0.00
2/28/2010 0.00
3/1/2010 0.01
3/2/2010 0.00
3/3/2010 0.00
3/4/2010 0.00
3/5/2010 0.00
3/6/2010 0.00
3/7/2010 0.00
3/8/2010 0.42
3/9/2010 0.03
3/10/2010 0.04
3/11/2010 0.22
3/12/2010 T
3/13/2010 0.00
3/14/2010 0.00
3/15/2010 0.10
3/16/2010 0.00
3/17/2010 0.00
3/18/2010 0.00
3/19/2010 0.00
3/20/2010 0.19
3/21/2010 T
3/22/2010 0.00
3/23/2010 0.00
3/24/2010 0.02
3/25/2010 0.03
3/26/2010 0.00
3/27/2010 0.00
3/28/2010 0.00
3/29/2010 0.00
3/30/2010 0.00
3/31/2010 0.00
Day of YearDaily PrcpMultiday Prcp
4/1/2010 0.00
4/2/2010 0.00
4/3/2010 0.00
4/4/2010 0.00
4/5/2010 0.00
4/6/2010 0.00
4/7/2010 0.00
4/8/2010 0.00
4/9/2010 0.00
4/10/2010 0.00
4/11/2010 0.00
4/12/2010 0.00
4/13/2010 0.00
4/14/2010 0.00
4/15/2010 0.00
4/16/2010 0.00
4/17/2010 0.37
4/18/2010 0.00
4/19/2010 0.06
4/20/2010 T
4/21/2010 T
4/22/2010 0.08
4/23/2010 0.25
4/24/2010 0.00
4/25/2010 0.00
4/26/2010 0.00
4/27/2010 0.00
4/28/2010 0.00
4/29/2010 0.00
4/30/2010 T
5/1/2010 T
5/2/2010 0.00
5/3/2010 0.10
5/4/2010 0.00
5/5/2010 0.00
5/6/2010 0.00
5/7/2010 0.00
5/8/2010 0.00
5/9/2010 0.00
5/10/2010 0.00
5/11/2010 0.00
5/12/2010 0.00
5/13/2010 0.00
5/14/2010 0.00
5/15/2010
5/16/2010 0.00
5/17/2010 0.00
5/18/2010 0.00
5/19/2010 0.00
5/20/2010 0.00
5/21/2010 0.00
5/22/2010
5/23/2010 0.00
5/24/2010 0.00
5/25/2010 0.00
5/26/2010 0.00
5/27/2010 0.00
5/28/2010 0.01
5/29/2010 T
5/30/2010 0.00
5/31/2010 0.00
6/1/2010 0.00
6/2/2010 0.00
6/3/2010 0.00
6/4/2010 0.00
6/5/2010
6/6/2010
6/7/2010 0.23
6/8/2010 0.00
6/9/2010 0.00
6/10/2010 0.00
6/11/2010 0.00
6/12/2010 0.00
6/13/2010 0.00
6/14/2010 0.00
6/15/2010 0.00
6/16/2010 0.00
6/17/2010 0.00
6/18/2010 0.00
6/19/2010 0.00
6/20/2010 T
6/21/2010 T
6/22/2010 0.00
6/23/2010 0.00
6/24/2010 0.00
6/25/2010 0.00
6/26/2010 0.05
6/27/2010 0.05
6/28/2010 0.00
6/29/2010 0.26
6/30/2010 0.00
Day of YearDaily PrcpMultiday Prcp
7/1/2010 0.00
7/2/2010 0.05
7/3/2010 0.06
7/4/2010 0.02
7/5/2010 0.00
7/6/2010 0.00
7/7/2010 0.00
7/8/2010 T
7/9/2010 0.00
7/10/2010 0.00
7/11/2010 0.00
7/12/2010 T
7/13/2010 0.00
7/14/2010 0.00
7/15/2010 T
7/16/2010 0.01
7/17/2010 0.00
7/18/2010 0.00
7/19/2010 0.04
7/20/2010 0.00
7/21/2010 0.00
7/22/2010 0.05
7/23/2010 0.00
7/24/2010 0.00
7/25/2010 1.32
7/26/2010 0.47
7/27/2010 0.63
7/28/2010 T
7/29/2010 0.60
7/30/2010 T
7/31/2010 T
8/1/2010 0.37
8/2/2010 0.01
8/3/2010 **
8/4/2010 **
8/5/2010 **
8/6/2010 **
8/7/2010 **
8/8/2010 **
8/9/2010 **
8/10/2010 **
8/11/2010 **
8/12/2010 0.06
8/13/2010 T
8/14/2010 0.00
8/15/2010 0.00
8/16/2010 1.43
8/17/2010 0.11
8/18/2010
8/19/2010 0.00
8/20/2010 0.00
8/21/2010
8/22/2010 0.00
8/23/2010 0.77
8/24/2010 0.25
8/25/2010 0.00
8/26/2010 0.00
8/27/2010 0.00
8/28/2010 T
8/29/2010 0.03
8/30/2010 **
8/31/2010 0.00
9/1/2010
9/2/2010 0.00
9/3/2010 0.00
9/4/2010 0.00
9/5/2010 0.00
9/6/2010 0.00
9/7/2010 0.00
9/8/2010 0.00
9/9/2010 0.17
9/10/2010 0.00
9/11/2010 0.00
9/12/2010 0.00
9/13/2010 0.00
9/14/2010 0.00
9/15/2010 0.00
9/16/2010 0.00
9/17/2010 0.00
9/18/2010 0.00
9/19/2010 0.00
9/20/2010 0.00
9/21/2010 0.16
9/22/2010 0.00
9/23/2010 1.91
9/24/2010 T
9/25/2010
9/26/2010 0.00
9/27/2010 0.00
9/28/2010 0.00
9/29/2010 0.00
9/30/2010 0.00



Observation Date Observation Time Precipitation Snowfall Snowfall SWE Snow Depth Snow SWE Notes
10/1/2009 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 47.3ºF. (Guess Fall is Here!) Clear. Breezy, from North ~ 5-10.
10/2/2009 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 43.6ºF. Clear. Calm.
10/3/2009 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Clear. Calm.
10/4/2009 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 53.8ºF. A layer of altocumulus covers the north& east halves of sky. SW quad. is clear. Slight breeze from the S/SE at <5. "Wet" smelling. There was dew earlier on the vehicles.Good ballooning, tho upper winds may be too strong. Beautiful Moon - on west horizon.
10/5/2009 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 58.5ºF. Clear-small cumulus over top of one Mt. to east. Breezy - from S/SW ~10.
10/6/2009 7:10 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 52.ºF. Gray Altocumulus layer across most of sky with another layer - white,wispy washboardy ?cirrocumulus - right above it. Calm. No dew this morning.
10/7/2009 7:25 AM 0.19 0.0 M 0.0 M 54ºF. Layer of cumulus/altocumulus across total sky, though broken in a couple places. Calm. Still raining. High yesterday 69ºF. No thunder or lightning. It sounded as if there may have been small hail @0600, but I could not see it - too dark still.
10/8/2009 7:30 AM 0.11 0.0 M 0.0 M 51.7ºF. Clear. Calm. Rain was a continuation of yesterday morning's, which stopped about 0900, though there was a brief sprinkle at 2145 last evening.
10/9/2009 7:00 AM T 0.0 M 0.0 M 51.7ºF. Clear. Very slight breeze from NE. Brief Sprinkles at 1210 (with small hail) and 1418.
10/10/2009 7:10 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 49ºF. Very thin wispy cirrus over most of sky. Very slight breeze from east. A beautiful morning. Balloons aloft!
10/11/2009 7:20 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 47.2ºF. Cirrus across most of sky - heavier to the west & NW. Slight breeze from the S/SE.
10/12/2009 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 50ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from the east~5. A nice fall morning.
10/13/2009 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 59ºF. (Yes, that's right. Much warmer.)Mostly Cloudy - mixed: broken altocumulus, cirrocum.)Wind from S ~10. "Smells" like rain, but none that I'm aware of.
10/14/2009 7:15 AM T 0.0 M 0.0 M 53.6ºF. Thin wispy broken cirrus across most of sky. Slight breeze from E~5. Brief Sprinkles yesterday morn at 0800.
10/15/2009 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 55.9ºF. Clear. Calm.
10/16/2009 6:55 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 52.2ºF. (after that dropped to low of 51.6ºF.) Clear. Slight breeze from EAst ~5. High yesterday was 78ºF.
10/17/2009 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 51.8ºF. Clear. Gusty canyon winds started 0330 - from E ~20 now, harder earlier.
10/18/2009 7:35 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 55.4ºF. Clear. calm.
10/19/2009 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 60.1ºF. Broken altocumulus across most of sky. Calm.
10/20/2009 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 56.1ºF. Mostly clear. Cumulus clouds at south & west horizons. Slight breeze from NE < 5.
10/21/2009 7:10 AM 1.08 0.0 M 0.0 M Temp 45.2ºF. Total low dense stratus cloud cover to bottom half of near foothills. Still raining. Started for 15min. at 1401 yesterday = 0.04". Restarted 1524, raining since. At 1830=0.35".
10/22/2009 7:15 AM 0.34 0.0 M M M temp 43.6ºF. Total-sky, thick altocumulus/stratus to western horizon where it breaks. No sun visible (not risen yet?) Totally calm.
10/23/2009 7:05 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 44.1ºF (now down to 43.3ºF.)Totally clear. Calm. High yesterday was 60ºF.
10/24/2009 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 43.7ºF. Cirrus across most of sky, with a few alto cumulus under near the Sandias. Slight breeze from NE~5. Hign yesterday was 67ºF.
10/25/2009 7:25 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 48.5ºF. Sky dotted with altocumulus/cumulus puffs, moving rapidly to EAst/SE. Breeze from NW ~5. High yesterday was 70.1ºF.
10/26/2009 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Temp.=37.5ºF. Scattered altocumulus around edges S, W, E.
10/27/2009 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 39ºF. cirrus & lower altocumulus. Breeze fron East ~10. High Yesterday=59ºF.
10/28/2009 6:50 AM 0.28 0.2 M 0.2 M Obs. at 0650: temp 40.1ºF.Calm. Total gray cloud cover, and mixed snow/rain at the time. At 0730 went out to get the gauge:0.23" in it with another 0.05 after snow in funnel melted. Now(0730) heavy snow of just BIG flakes. Cold hardscape (Trash can, hedge & car hood) have ~0.25" and r white. Ground just wet. Temp now 38.0º.(0750) Husb. said started with snow @ 0500.
10/29/2009 7:45 AM 0.19 1.0 M T M Temp=27.3ºF. Totally clear. Very Slight breeze from SE.definite freeze/frost. Rain barrels frozen. High yesterday =40ºF. Snow and rain at time of last report changed to all snow, which accumulated to a measured inch on cold hardscapes at 0930. Stopped at 1000. Snow Restarted for short periods at 1200(~0.25?) and 1430. But, it stayed so warm that first melted before 2nd snow.
10/30/2009 7:15 AM 0.04 0.9 M T M 27.7ºF. Mostly clear - a few patches of altocumulus or cirrocumulus. breeze from N ~5. Snow twice yesterday: 1421-1509 flakes, heavy, 0.8" measured, then melted; 1640-1730 light "tapioca" snow, just enough to make things thinly white again on cold hardscape - 0.1-0.2". High 43ºF.
10/31/2009 8:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Clear. Calm. High Yesterday was 63ºF.
11/1/2009 7:20 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 40.3ºF. Clear. Calm.High yesterday was 63ºF.
11/2/2009 7:10 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 40.5ºF. Clear. Calm. High yesterday=68ºF.
11/3/2009 7:05 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 45.7ºF. Clear. Calm.A beautiful morning! High Yesterday =70ºF.
11/4/2009 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 46.6ºF. Clear Calm. High yesterday=70ºF.
11/5/2009 7:20 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 50.2ºF. This veil of cirrus across most of sky. Some altocumulus over the mts to E&SE.Calm now. East canyon winds during night - started about 1730& took most of the rest of leaves from the trees.
11/6/2009 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 50.2ºF. Clear as the proverbial bell. Very slight breeze from E/SE. High yesterday=70ºF.
11/7/2009 7:20 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 51.1ºF. Scattered wispy cirrus. Calm. High yesterday was 71.4ºF.
11/8/2009 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M temp 47.4ºF. Broken clouds - ?altocumulus. Calm. High yesterday=71.4ºF.
11/9/2009 7:10 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 49.3ºF. Scattered cumulus, mostly to E and S. Calm. High yesterday=69.4ºF.
11/10/2009 7:50 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Temp 49.6ºF. Thin high cirrus. Calm. High yesterday = 69.1ºF.
11/11/2009 7:40 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 51.4ºF. High thin layer of cirrus over most of sky, tho broken in places. calm. High yesterday =69ºF.
11/12/2009 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 0.00 M M 51.6ºF. Total cloud cover: altostratus? Breeze from S/SE <5.
11/13/2009 7:40 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Temp 51.6ºF. Total low gray cloud cover. Very slight breeze from SE.<5. High yesterday was 67º with very little sun - gloomu all day.
11/14/2009 7:30 AM 0.02 0.0 M 0.0 M 44.3ºF. Total cloud cover. Calm. Light Rain several times between 1215 and 1600 yesterday.
11/15/2009 7:00 AM 0.09 0.7 M 0.7 M At obsv.=35.3ºF. slight breeze. Had light rain several times yesterday, starting about 0930, under mostly cloudy sky til sunset. Some clouds moving back in - was mostly clear at 0645, after brief snow between 0600-0630 under total low, heavy cloud cover that moved rapidly out. Powdery ball snow. rapidly changing weather. Now fully cloudy again as I write.
11/16/2009 7:30 AM T T M 0.0 M Temp at 0730=27.7ºF. Totally clear. Heavy frost. Mod. Snow yesterday morn between 0855-0910, a continuation of the storm. Wind blew in afternoon moderately here, but it gradually cleared. All snow melted/sublimated - none in gauge.
11/17/2009 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 30.5ºF. Clear. Slight breeze <5. High yesterday=50.2ºF.
11/18/2009 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 32ºF. Clear. Calm. Max min yesterday was 58/30ºF.
11/19/2009 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 40.1F. Mostly cloudy - low cumulus. Calm. High yesterday60.1ºF.
11/20/2009 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 34.9ºF Clear. Calm. Yesterday's high was 61.7ºF.
11/21/2009 7:50 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 40ºF. Cirrus. Slight breeze from S=<5. Min/max=36/61ºF.
11/22/2009 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Temp=40.3ºF. bands of cirrus in SE quadrant, clear elswhere. Breeze 5-10 from NW.
11/23/2009 7:40 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M temp=38.0ºF. Totally Clear. Slight breeze fromN/NW ~5.
11/24/2009 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M temp26.3ºF. XClear. Very slight breeze from NE~2-3. High yesterday=52.3ºF.
11/25/2009 7:10 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Temp.=27.1ºF. Clear. Calm. High yesterday=52.6ºF.
11/26/2009 7:35 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 33.6ºF. Clear. Calm. Happy Thanksgiving to all!
11/27/2009 7:50 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 36ºF. Clear. calm.
11/28/2009 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Min/Max 30/60. Cirrocumulus moving rapidly east. Calm.
11/29/2009 7:25 AM 0.33 0.0 M 0.0 M 38.4ºF. Mostly cloudy - several layers of low cumulus/altocumulus.Wind from E ~20-30. Rain started at 1730. Intermittent showers. Walk still wet at 0530.
11/30/2009 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 31.7ºF. Almost total overcast/cloud cover - cumulus/stratus. (Ignore report for 11/29. I think it had some sprinkler water in it.)
12/1/2009 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 30.7ºF. Clear. Slight breeze ~2-5 from NE.
12/2/2009 7:25 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 33.7ºF. Clear. Very slight breeze from East ~1-3. High yest. =51.4ºF.
12/3/2009 7:30 AM T T M 0.0 M 25.7ºF. Total solid gray overcast - stratus. Gusty east canyon winds from East ~20-30. It has just begun to snow a really fine powdery snow that is blowing to west down the street. Will report accumulation tomorrow, as it seems to be getting harder.
12/4/2009 7:00 AM 0.04 1.0 M 0.5 M 17.8ºF. Clear. Calm now. Heavy frost. Yesterday:snowed all morning, moderately at times. Wind was strong so it was difficult to capture all in gauge, snowboard.It blew almost horizontally. The calm spots where it didn't drift had 0.8"to 1.25" snow yesterday. Sun came out at 1430, and melted some. Hardscape is dry/clear; grass still covered, tho. Drifts ~6".
12/5/2009 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M 21.4ºF. Cirrus. Breeze from E ~5. Snow left on ground is patchy where it drifted, none in sunny thin areas.
12/6/2009 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M 32.5ºF. altostratus to north. Clouds moving to east & south. Seem to be increasing. breeze from SE~5. High yesterday=37ºF. Still patches of snow in deep shade.
12/7/2009 7:40 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 39.8ºF. Total altostratus cloud cover. Slight breeze from West. AHigh yesterday =44ºF. No snow left in my yard; tiny patches still in some street gutters.
12/8/2009 6:45 AM 0.16 0.8 M 0.8 M 33.8ºF. Partly cloudy - cumulus moving east rapidly. Wind from West ~10-15. Sprinkles started ~1530; several times during evening. Thunder& lightning storm started at 05:20 per notice from my dog. Precip started at 05:30, done by 05:45. Very intense fast moving storm. Wet snow, preceded by sleet and rain. Wind was harder then, so all of snow may not have made it into gauge. Was plastered on west side of it.
12/9/2009 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M 23.8ºF. Washboard altocumulus over parts of sky. Breeze from East ~5-10. Still patches of snow from yesterday's snow on north/shaded areas.
12/10/2009 7:20 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M 27.0ºF. Partly cloudy - bands of cumulus across sky. Breeze from N ~5-10. High yesterday=44ºF.Small patches of snow on North deep shade areas still.
12/11/2009 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M 27.8ºF. Partly cloudy. Slight breeze from NW. Still light patches of snow in deep shade areas.
12/12/2009 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M 31.8ºF. High cirrus overcast in most of sky - darker to W& NW. Light Breeze from East.
12/13/2009 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 33.1ºF. Altocumulus/altostratus. Slight breeze from East.
12/14/2009 6:45 AM 0.01 0.0 M 0.0 M 33.5ºF. Seems clear, tho may be light cirrus. Not light enough to tell yet. Breeze ~5 from N/NW. A brief light shower last evening sometime between 1930-2000, with gusty winds prior to and during.
12/15/2009 6:40 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 33.7ºF.(tho at 0530 it had been 26.5ºF) Clear. calm.
12/16/2009 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 29.0ºF. Some cirrus to south & SE. calm. High yesterday=53ºF.
12/17/2009 6:55 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 31.3ºGF. Clear. Calm. High yesterday=52.3ºF.
12/18/2009 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 31.5ºF. Overcast with mixed clouds: altocumulus, cirrocumulus?Calm. High yesterday=52.6ºF.
12/19/2009 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Clear blue. Calm. High yesterday 52.
12/20/2009 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 29.6ºF. Clear except for a patch of clouds at far S and SE horizon.
12/21/2009 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 33.5ºF. Mostly clear, but spme cirrus bands across sky. Very slight breeze, from East.
12/22/2009 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 39.6º F. Total overcast - ?alto staratus. No sun. Light breeze from S/SE~5.
12/23/2009 7:00 AM 0.16 2.8 0.18 2.8 M Temp: @0500=32.7;@0600=31.1;@0830=32.9. Almost Total cumulus Cloud cover.Snowing (ground white) at 0150;Had finished by 0530. Little wind. The core melt value was taken on 2.5" of snow, as it was taken later(0830)after gauge contents melted. Streets have melted off as I write.
12/24/2009 7:15 AM 0.04 0.5 M 1.0 M 28.5ºF. Cumulus/cum.-stratus most of eastern half of sky, scattered cumulus over west half. Breeze from N to NW ~ 10. intermittent snow during day,at 1230 hard snow for 30 min. with big flakes, tho it got up to 42F. so all melted as it fell. Some during the night accumulated to 3/8"(measured after melting began), so We probably had at least half inch more total. Total on ground from 0 to 1.0 in. in shaded areas."
12/25/2009 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M 23.0ºF. Clear. Wind from N/NM ~10-15. Yesterday was sunny, so meltd most of snow. Still some in shaded areas, up to ~ 1/2".
12/28/2009 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.5 M 20.2ºF. Cirrus/cirrostratus to south. Calm. Still patches of snow left in shaded areas, 0.5-1.0" deep.
12/29/2009 7:20 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 29.2ºF. Total gray stratus. Calm. Looks like snow is in the offing.
12/30/2009 7:15 AM 0.05 1.0 M 1.0 M 29.5ºF.at obsv. time. Clouds broken cumulus/stratus, clearing from the west.Calm. Snow intermittently all day yesterday; first flurries about 0830,; at noon there was 1/4" on ground; warmed to 35ºF. and it all melted. dusting on grnd. again @2200, then more during night. Now 3/4" on hard, cold, open-area surfaces(dry powdery). Grass covered. Probably 1.0" total for the day. Snow remains in shade from previous:up to 1.0" total in scattered places.
12/31/2009 6:50 AM 0.12 3.0 0.14 3.0 M 29.9ºF. (Less now) Cloud cover: cumulus & altostratus. Seems to be clearing from west. NW Breeze ~5-10. Snow flurries from 1100 intermittently, with some wind initially, again yesterday. 2.8" after snow, @1815, tho temp still 35.6ºF then. A light, fluffy snow, wetter, big flakes. Light dusting again after 2230 during night. 3.0" this am. Streets icy. High yesterday 45.2w/ sun, melted most of previous snow before this started.
1/1/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 1.0 M 24ºF. Calm. Clear. High yesterday=43.6ºF. Snow ~1" still in shaded areas. Sun melted open sunny areas all off yesterday.
1/2/2010 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.5 M 28.5ºF. High cirrostratus overcast. Calm. High yesterday=45.9ºF. Snow left only in shady spots & north sides.
1/3/2010 6:55 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.5 M 25.5ºF. Clear. Calm Yesterday's high was 51.7ºF. melted a lot of the snow, but there are still small patches in deep shade north up to 0.5".
1/5/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M 26.9ºF. Very light cirrus. Calm.
1/6/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M 29.7ºF. (& still falling) Clear. Calm. High yesterday was 47.8ºF. Most of snow left is mostly ice - occ. 0.5" thick;most less.
1/7/2010 7:20 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.5 M 26.8ºF. Thin Cirrostratus cover over most of sky. Calm now. High yesterday was 48ºF.Stll small(er) patches of snow/ice) in deep shade.
1/8/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M Temp.=18.5ºF. COLD!! Clear. Calm now. (Was breezy from SE at 0600.) High yesterday was 43.7ºF.
1/9/2010 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M 27.4ºF. Altostratus over most of sky. Calm. High yesterday=41.7ºF.
1/10/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M 29ºF. Thin Cirrus/cirrostratus. Calm.
1/11/2010 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M 29.7ºF. Mostly clear, thin cirrus to south. Calm. High yesterday was 50.1ºF.
1/12/2010 6:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M 32.2ºF. Clear. slight breeze from ENE. High yesterday=51.7ºF. Less snow still on ground in deep shade.
1/13/2010 7:40 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 33.5ºF. Thin Cirrostratus layer over most of sky, tho some blue shows thru. Calm. High yesterday: 57.8ºF. Snow gone from my yard but still some in deep shade on north side,across the street.
1/14/2010 7:45 AM T 0.0 M T M temp.=36.2ºF. Total stratus cloud cover. Slight breeze. Rain Started at 2330; not at 0500, but bricks still wet. Just s couple of drops in gauge.
1/15/2010 6:50 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M 31.0ºF. Clear. Very slight breeze from NE~2. No frost.
1/16/2010 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M Temp=35.3ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from NW.
1/17/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 35.1ºF. Cirrus/cirrostratus. Calm.
1/18/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 32.4ºF. Cirrocumulus with altocumulus lower, including one lenticular segment to SE right over Tijeras Canyon Pass/ Manzano Mts. Slight breeze<5 from E/NE. Yesterday's high=55ºF.
1/19/2010 6:55 AM 0.32 T M 0.0 M Temp. = 38.9ºF, Total low cloud cover. ?Stratus fractus. Wind ~ 5-7 from S to SE.Rain was mixed with snow at 2050 & again at 2200. Raining at 0420. No snow On ground. Too warm. Top third of near mts, prob. 8500-10000ft. Still a little "spitting " at obsv. time.
1/20/2010 7:00 AM T T M T M temp was 38.3•F. total altostratus leaden cloud cover, that is broken to the west. Wind from S to SE ~10. Feels "wet" out. There appears to have been a touch of snow/precip fairly recently. Gauge is wet on bottom - not frost - and some path stones are still wet.
1/21/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 33.8. Cirrostratus. Slight breeze from the east.
1/22/2010 7:15 AM 0.32 T M T M Temp=36.3ºF. (Still Falling, I think.) Total very low solid stratus. Light rain between 1330-1400 yesterday. No precip at 0320. Rain only at 0500, Mixed Rain & snow at 0715 & beginning to get ground white. Now snow only as I write (0800). Streets slushy, not frozen yet. Very wet heavy snow. Gauge was mixed rain & snow water. No wind now, tho there was mod-strong wind from S all evening & at 10pm.
1/23/2010 7:00 AM 0.29 1.0 M 0.5 M Temp @0700=31.8ºF. Total stratus cloud cover, again. Calm . A continuation of the same storm as yesterday, when we had snow(0.5") continued until 0930; flurry x 10 min at 1155; another brief storm at 1550 with rain, snow, sleet, & 1/4" hail all mixed & a little thunder Then no more til between 0400-0500 this AM when snow started again. Still continues. Totals inc. 0.21" from 08-1700; rest this AM. Yesterday's snow all melted. High 40.8ºF (0.5"snow this morn)
1/24/2010 7:00 AM 0.04 0.5 M 0.5 M Temp. = 27.8ºF. Partly cloudy w/ cumulus in south half; north half total dark cumulus clouds. Wind from North ~ 10. Snow yesterday continued from previous reporttil 1000;then 4 intermittent brief showers of snow - all ball/tapioca type ~up to 1/4" (?graupel) - which were pretty intense for 2-3 minutes each, making the street half white - at 1228 (with thunder), 1425 (with thunder), 1452 (no T), 1615 (non T). Graupel still on ground, most early snow melted. No precip after that. High got up to 38.7ºF. that I noticed.
1/25/2010 6:50 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.5 M Temp: 26.4ºF, Mostly clear. Breeze from N ~10. Most snow in sunny areas is gone.
1/26/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.5 M 29.2ºF. Cirrostratus cloud cover. Breeze from E ~ 5-10.High yesterday=44ºF. Snow lwft only in heavily shaded areas.
1/27/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M Thin layer of cirrostratus clouds. Slight breeze.
1/28/2010 7:00 AM T 0.0 M M M Temp=37.4ºF. Warm. Total cloud cover. Wind from east ~ 15 - 20. Was strong all night. A few "spits" ~2145 last night, as we arrived home, but nothing else.
1/29/2010 7:00 AM 0.02 T M T M 29.7º Thick stratus cloud cover. Calm now. Wind last evening (~1715) was blowing snow horizontally. Flurries or brief heavy snows throughout day. Little accumulation -just enough to tell there was white on the ground. There was a curious precip this morn abt 0630: VERY fine snow/sleet that was round - looked like someone had thinly sprinkled cream of wheat or salt on the street/drive/vehicle.
1/30/2010 7:00 AM T T M 0.0 M 33.6 F. Mostly clear. North wind ~ 5. A light flurry yesterday morn at 1000. I wasn't home the rest of day. High was 42ºF. Sun came outmid-afternoon.
1/31/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Temp 35.3ºF. Cumulostratus cloud cover across all of sky. Calm. High yesterday=49.7ºF.
2/1/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M temp. 32.0ºF. Clear. Wind from N/NW ~10. Min/Max 30/44ºF.
2/2/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 29.4ºF. Light cirrus. Slight breeze from N <5. Yesterday N wind all day. High 44ºF.
2/3/2010 7:10 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M A warm 38.5ºF. Total cloud cover: alto/nimbo? stratus. Wind from S ~10. High yesterday=53.1ºF.
2/4/2010 7:20 AM 0.33 1.5 M 1.5 M temp 33.1F. total "socked-in" cloud cover covering most of the mts. to east, even near ones, tho no fog here.Beginning to lift? Now slight breeze from East. Rain, mix,&/or snow most of yesterday intermittently. No accumulation til ~ 2100. Had started again ~2030 w/ sleet,then snow - very fine. Moderate to strong wind most of daytime, and temp was warm - to 39F - so it melted.
2/5/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M 31.5ºF. Mostly clear - small amt. of cirrus over the Sandia Mts. to east. Breeze from SW ~5.High yesterday 46.8ºF.
2/6/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M Temp=34.5. Cirrus. Slight breeze from W/NW. High yesterday was 53.4ºF.
2/7/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 41.9ºF. Stratus/altostratus cloud cover entire sky. Breeze from East /NE. High yesterday:56.3ºF.
2/8/2010 7:30 AM 0.11 0.5 M T M 33.8ºF. Cumulostratus, total cover. Calm. Rain & snow flurries intermittently yesterday. Stopped before evening. Heaviest snow between 1030-1115.AM.
2/9/2010 7:00 AM 0.02 0.5 M 0.2 M temp.=33.4ºF. Cumulostratus. Snowed 0805-0830 yesterday morn & 0630-0700 this morn, total ground white each time, tho melted in AM yesterday. + rain/sleet/snow for short time at 2130-2215 thatalso melted & didn't accumulate..
2/10/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 32.7ºF. Thin CirrusStratus,& cumulus. Calm. High yesterday=53.4ºF.
2/11/2010 7:45 AM T 0.0 M 0.0 M 28ºF. Wind from North ~10. A couple of brief sprinkles yesterday morn & evening, that didn't even get the drive/walk fully wet. High 51ºF.
2/12/2010 7:20 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 31.5ºF. Clear. Still breeze from N-NW ~5-10. High yesterday=46ºF. SUNSHINE!!
2/13/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 31.5ºF. Clear. Wind from N ~5. High yesterday= 51ºF.
2/14/2010 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 34ºF. Clear. Breeze from N ~5. High yesterday 53ºF & sunny.
2/15/2010 7:25 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 27.0ºF. Thin veil of cirro-stratus layer over most of sky. Calm. Min/Max yesterday=24º/54ºF.
2/16/2010 7:00 AM T T M T M 36.4ºF. Total cloud cover - ?altostratus. A flurry of snow pellets right before obsv. time. Calm. High Yesterday was 48ºF.
2/17/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 31.7ºF. Clear. Calm. High yesterday: 50ºF.
2/18/2010 7:10 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 36.2ºF. Mostly clear. A few clouds east of Sandia Mts; , and a patch at far north horizon. Calm. High yesterday was 55ºF.
2/19/2010 7:40 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 34.7ºF. Slight breeze from N<5. Cirrus wisps dot the majority of the sky. High yesterday was 62.2ºF.
2/20/2010 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 36.7ºF. Light Cirrus stratus over most of sky, increasing.Slight breeze. High yesterday =60.
2/21/2010 7:50 AM T 0.0 M 0.0 M 38ºF. Altocumulus /stratus fractus? Precip sometime during evening/night.
2/22/2010 7:35 AM 0.01 T M 0.0 M 38.1ºF. Solid cloud cover: ? altocumulus. Breeze from S to SW ~10. Several periods of precip, snow flurry @1015; rain between 1330 & 1430; again @ 1510; snow graupel & hail - all ~1/4" at 1620. A few flakes of snow after that. No accumulation. It looked to be more south of us, and over NE the mts/Crest there were clouds all day.
2/23/2010 6:45 AM 0.09 0.2 M 0.2 M 24.7ºF. Mostly clear - a couple patches of cumulus. Calm. Snow yesterday intermittently with graupel, big flakes, misty flakes from 0930-1330.Temp was 40-42, so it melted as it fell. On ground now is just from early am.
2/24/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 26.8ºF. Cirrostratus solid across sky. High yesterday:44ºF.
2/25/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M overcast. Slight breeze from N~5.
2/26/2010 7:00 AM T T M 0.0 M 29.8ºF. Clear. Calm. Sun about to be up. A couple of flurries yesterday at 0820 & 1015, but no accumulation on ground or in gauge.
2/27/2010 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 389ºF. Total thin Cirrostratus across sky. Breeze from S ~5. High yesterday: 53ºF.
2/28/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 42º Solid gray stratus cloud cover. Wind from West to NW ~10.
3/1/2010 7:00 AM 0.01 0.0 M 0.0 M Temp: 36.4ºF. Clear except for (alto)cumulus clouds over top & to the east of Sandias east of us. Calm. High yesterday was 55ºF. (Surprising, as it was cloudy dreary all day.) It was raining at 0250 when my storm dog let me know. The gauge total seems low for as hard as it was raining then, but that's what it was.
3/2/2010 7:10 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 33.5ºF. Mostly of south with some thin cirrus. Very slight breeze.
3/3/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 34.9ºF. Clear. Calm. High Yesterday=59.6ºF.
3/4/2010 7:10 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 37.7ºF. Clear. Calm. High yesterday 63.1ºF.
3/5/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 38.3ºF. Mostly clear. A few patches of clouds. Wind from west ~10. High Yesterday=66.1ºF.
3/6/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 35.8ºF. Thin high cirrostratuscovering sky.Breeze from West to SW ~5.
3/7/2010 7:40 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 49.2ºF. Total cloud cover. Breeze from East ~ 5. high Yesterday =59ºF.
3/8/2010 7:20 AM 0.42 0.2 M 0.2 M 37.1ºF. Total cumulostratus cloud cover, tho seems to be clearing from W some. Calm. Yesterday had rain & hail/big sleet x 2 (1422 * 2101) & snow & rain. See hail reports. We probably had more snow than I'm reporting, as it is so warm, it's melting fast. Ground was totally white, tho could see tops of grass blades. Thunder & lightning started at 2100 for half hour, including very strong wind with hail at 2101 x 2 min. More heavy rain at 2230. Precip in gauge at 1745 was 0.01".
3/9/2010 6:50 AM 0.03 T M 0.0 M Intermittent flurries and bursts of snow,rain, graupel, sleet/hail? during day yesterday. Temp stayed above 40ºso it melted as it fell. Ground was partially white once. High = 48.7º.
3/10/2010 7:05 AM 0.04 0.5 M 0.5 M 29.1ºF. Breeze from S~5. Total stratus cloud cover. Thin strip of blue at west horizon. Snow had stopped by 0530. None on drive/street, but lawn white, and half inch on vehicle & trash container in open area. Started snow ~2200. (None at 2145, tho "snow sky" evident; and ground was half-white at 2215, and was snowing well.)
3/11/2010 7:00 AM 0.22 4.3 M 4.5 M 31.1ºF. Total cloud cover - 3/4 down over the near mts. to the east. Slight breeze from N <5. Snow started sometime after 2215. Still snowing as I report(0820). "Wet" heavy flake snow.
3/12/2010 7:00 AM T 0.5 M T M 31.8ºF. Clear. Breeze ~5 from NW. Storm Snow continued yesterday from 0700-0945.Another half inch, but it was melting almost as fast as it fell. I measured at 0930 on metal trash can in open. Gauge did not get back out to catch most of the snow. Was inside melting previous snow. Sun came out at 1200. All but one small patch of snow is gone. Hi was 51.1 yesterday, surprisingly.
3/13/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 36.8ºF. A few thin cirrus streaks across an otherwise clear sky. Calm.
3/14/2010 7:10 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 39.8ºF. Clear except cloud bank at far west horizon. Slight breeze from S to SE ~5.
3/15/2010 7:30 AM 0.10 1.0 M 0.5 M 38ºF. Heavy dark, cumulus & mixed clouds all around. Calm. Had 3 periods of snow yesterday: 1018-1050; 1520-1600; 1620-1730. BIG, heavy wet flakes each time. Beautiful to watch! Was warm:56º after first when sun came out & it cleared; fell to 45º with the 2nd storm, then 38º with last. most melted as it fell. 1/2" on ground now is from last.
3/16/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 32.2ºF. Mostly clear. Calm.
3/17/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 36.4ºF. Clear except for a couple of streaks of cirrus over mts. to east & S. Calm. High yesterday=65.4ºF.
3/18/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 42ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from E ~ 5. High yesterday was 70.0ºF.
3/19/2010 7:40 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 46.4ºF. Broken Cumulus clouds across sky. Calm. High yesterday was 71.4ºF.(North side of house.)
3/20/2010 7:15 AM 0.19 1.0 M 1.0 M 25.0ºF. Total low gray solid cloud cover, down 2/3 to all of mts to east. Still snowing. Wind from east canyon decreased now to ~15, but "howled" most of the night. Snow seems to avg. ~1.0 in. only, but is drifted to 8." Rain yesterday morn, cleared somewhat, high got to 60ºF ~1400, but dropped when it then clouded up again, and snow started in late evening abt. 2100.
3/21/2010 7:40 AM T 0.2 M T M Temp 29.9ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from N <5. Snow was continuation of yesterday morning's accumulation after gauge was brought in to melt. Very little fell into it after I returned it, though there probably would have been a couple of hundredths. Sun came out, temp high got to 50.1ºF at 1600;most snow melted
3/22/2010 7:40 AM 0.00 0.0 M T M 36.4ºF. Thin cirrus over most of otherwise clear sky. Two contrails. Calm. High yesterday was 63.4ºF. Small patches of Snow left in deep shade spots only.
3/23/2010 7:05 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 42.0ºF, Thin Cirrus over much of sky. slight breeze from E. High Yesterday=70.4ºF.
3/24/2010 7:20 AM 0.02 0.0 M 0.0 M 32.2ºF. Cumulus/Status whole sky. Breeze from N~5. Rain started at 2130 exactly, but it was sleet not rain. (?Frozen rain)I would not have called it hail. That lasted 5 minutes, then stopped. It was 45ºF out then. Heard rain/something harder at 0425. Seems to be clearing, but still clouds to west. No snow that I know of.
3/25/2010 7:10 AM 0.03 0.2 M 0.0 M 33.0ºF. Mostly clear blue, except for two streak of cirrus to S. Calm. Intermittent snow yesterday, mostly graupel & powder. Last was big flakes. About 1/4" accumulation, but melted fast. Sun came out at ~1430 - melted. Last snow was at 1605 for ~ 5 min. from big black cloud coming from N along mts. Then it cleared again & was sunny. High I saw was 51.3 at 1530.
3/26/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 36.0ºF. Clear. Light Breeze. High yesterday :63.2ºF.
3/27/2010 7:25 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 34.4ºF. Clear. Wind from N ~10-15.
3/28/2010 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 33.3ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from N ~5. High yesterday=62 briefly before it clouded up. Windy most of day.
3/29/2010 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Clear. Slight breeze from S/SE. Min/max yesterday was 34º/63ºF.
3/30/2010 6:55 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 46.6ºF. Clear overhead, with light altocumulus all around, washboard to the E & SE. Light breeze from E/ NE <5. High Yesterday70ºF; min-44ºF.
3/31/2010 7:10 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 46.4ºF. Clear in east half, but west half is covered with thin layer of wispy cirrus. Slight breeze <5 from S/NE. High yesterday was 81.4º(north side of house.)
4/1/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 56ºF. Thin cirrus over most of sky to west & north. Wind from South ~ 10. Yesterday's high 76.4ºF.
4/2/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 33.1ºF. mostly clear blue with a few small patches of cirrus/cumulus. Yesterday was windy and high of 53ºF.
4/3/2010 8:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 34ºF. Mostly clear. Calm. Min/Max yesterday was 32/53ºF. Very windy & gusty intermittently. Dark clouds passed , but no moisture here.
4/4/2010 7:40 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Temp=43.7ºF. Clear. Calm. High yesterday=71ºF.
4/5/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Temp=47.7ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from NE ~5.
4/6/2010 6:50 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 45.9ºF. Mostly clear to W and S, but dark cumulus to NE over Sandia Mts. Calm. High yesterday 76, but windy, some strong gusts in afternoon.
4/7/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 31.0ºF. Clear, as the proverbial bell. Wind from N/NW ~5-10. High Yesterday = 61.9ºF & windy.
4/8/2010 7:10 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 34.7ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from NE~5. High yesterday =62.4ºF.
4/9/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 43.7ºF. Clear. Calm. High yesterday = 68.4ºF.
4/10/2010 6:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 47.5ºF. Clear. Slight breeze. High yesterday=78.5ºF.
4/11/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 47ºF. Broken thin cirrus. Calm. High yesterday =78.7ºF.
4/12/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 53.4ºF. Cirrus to N & NW, a few puffy cumulus to so. Calm. High yesterday =78.7ºF.
4/13/2010 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 51.7ºF. clear. breeze ~5-10 from S. Smells"wet."
4/14/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 46.7ºF altocumulus to south & East. Slight breeze from S.
4/15/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 49.6ºF Clear w/ contrail to south. Calm.
4/16/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 55.4ºF. Scattered Cirrus and cirrocumulus across sky.Seem to be clouds coming up behind(East of) the Sandia Mts. East canyon Wind howled all night, still ~ 15-20. High yesterday 81.4ºF.
4/17/2010 7:30 AM 0.37 0.0 M 0.0 M 45.7ºF. solid cloud cover. Wind from E ~10 now, harder all day yesterday, 30-40 (?more?) last evening. High yesterday = 76.4º. Intermittent thru night, hard at 0240.
4/18/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 55.7ºF. Mostly clear - a few clouds to NE over the Sandia mts. Seem to be spreading? Breeze from E/SE ~5.
4/19/2010 7:15 AM 0.06 0.0 M M M 51.3ºF. Total stratus cloud cover. breeze from S to SE~5.High yesterday was 76, just before the rain, which dropped it to 63 rapidly. Rain light & intermittent.
4/20/2010 7:00 AM T 0.0 M 0.0 M 49.3ºF. Scatterred altocumulus to East over mts., with cirrus& cirrostratus to west& north, changing.Calm - surprisingly - at observation time. Had a few "spits" yesterday mid afternoon along with gusty wind for a while.
4/21/2010 7:10 AM T 0.0 M 0.0 M 56.0ºF. Mostly clear. Calm. A few drops at 2031 last evening. A little distant rumbling of thunder about then, too..
4/22/2010 7:05 AM 0.08 0.0 M 0.0 M 46ºF. Most of sky is gray,cumulus cloud cover. Slight breeze. Very brief thunder storm early AM, started with one huge clap Thunder & lightning almost simultaneously, Tho dog heard T&L before that, and after rain receded. There was a little hail mixed with the initial two min, 1/4" & less.
4/23/2010 7:00 AM 0.25 0.2 M T M temp=35.5ºF. Cold!! alto cumulus clouds dot the sky. Breeze from south ~5-10. High yesterday only 58ºF. Intermittent drizzle/rain, mostly in late afternoon 1630 and after. Weird accumulation at 2100, I don't know whether to call it rain, hail, graupel, or sleet, but seemed a combo of all. A downpour of white that sounded like heavy rain, but contained uniformly round 1/8" balls white in center, clear outside that covered ground in five minutes. Accompanied by a little thunder& Lightning & increased wind.Dropped the temp 10º immediately. Some still on ground now.
4/24/2010 6:20 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 44.5ºF. Cumulus clouds and pink sky! Breeze/wind from North today(instead of S as last 3 days)~10. Off to outdoor tomato plant sale. Ha!
4/25/2010 7:10 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 41.1ºF. mostly clear. Yesterday was windy & cool, with passing clouds throughout the day - not good for our outdoor tomato plant sale. A little thunder from dark clouds to E& SE in mid-afternoon, but no precip.
4/26/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 49.3ºF. Clear. slight breeze. High yestersday = 76ºF.
4/27/2010 7:20 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 46.6ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from West.
4/28/2010 7:25 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 55ºF. Thin cirrus east half, with thin cirrus stratus over all of west half, coming this way apparently.Slight breeze from N <5. High yesterday = 76.6ºF.
4/29/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Temp53ºF. Mostly clear. Wind from W ~ 10.
4/30/2010 7:30 AM T T M 0.0 M 37.6ºF. Clouds all around: cumulus/cumulostratus; tho is nostly clear overhead.Wind has died - from NW ~5 - very strong gusts(?40-50?)yesterday, broke small limbs and tore leaves from trees, and blew over potted plants/objects. At 0600 there was light "corn snow" (graupel) on truck and garbage container, some on grass, not cement. So between 0030 and 0600 there was a light snow.
5/1/2010 7:15 AM T T M 0.0 M temp=34.0ºF. Clear. Calm now. Yesterday high =54ºF. Snow x3: 0946-1002(Flakes to graupel); 1029-1054(graupel); flurry at 1205.
5/2/2010 7:10 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 43.3ºF. Total gray cloud cover. Wind from S ~10.
5/3/2010 7:30 AM 0.10 0.0 M 0.0 M Clear. Slight breeze from East <5. Min/ MAx temp last 24hrs. = 32.7/48.7ºF. COLD! Wind from S tho. Heavy Frost this morn. Light rain between 12:01 and 14:35 in two showers.Clouds here were halfway down mts. to east while raining. My husband was hiking near Sandia Ski Area - snowed all morning (from ~1030-1400) he said: 4-6" with dense fog above that.
5/4/2010 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Temp = 36.5ºF. Clear. Breeze from S ~ 5.
5/5/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 55.2ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from E ~ 5.
5/6/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Clear. Slight breeze from SW to W ~ 5. Min/Max temp yesterday = 53º/83ºF.
5/7/2010 7:25 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Clear. Slight breeze from N ~5. Min/Max last 24 hrs=50/83ºF.
5/8/2010 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 45.7ºF. at obsv. time. High, thin cirrus/stratus layer in areas, across most of sky. STRONG gusty east canyon winds all night from about 2100 last night. Now ~40 (whole main branches swaying.)
5/9/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 55º7F. Very light cirrus in spots. Contrail. Slight breeze.
5/10/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp@obs, 54.3ºF. Mostly clear overhead w/ fluffy cumulus at NE and North horizon. Mod. wind from NW, gusty, from 15-35.
5/11/2010 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 50.5@obs. Time. Min /Max temp last 24 hrs=50/78ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from S <5.
5/12/2010 7:10 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 43.6ºF. Clear - no clouds - except for some hazinesss - ? dust due to strong gusty (~20-40, some higher?) SW winds yesterday?. Now light breeze from west <5. High yesterday=82.5ºF. Min =43.0ºF.
5/13/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Temp @ obsv=50.3ºF. thin cirrus across sky with 7 (!) contrails, some of which have spread. Slight breeze from NE now. Windy again yesterday, not quite as strong as Tuesday. Min/Max = 41/74
5/14/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Temp=56.8ºF. Light patchy cirrus overhead ,with bank of clouds at west horizon. Strong east canyon wind last night continuing today, started ~ 2000; leaf& small fruit litter all over.
5/16/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 50ºF. Some Cirrus.E & SE. Slight breeze. Min/Max temp yesterday=49/73ºF.
5/17/2010 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Temp 59ºF. Clear. Calm now, but east canyon wind during night 2300 - til ~ 0400. Min/max yesterday = 48/80ºF.
5/18/2010 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 65ºF. Total cloud cover. Breeze from E to S ~5-10. Min/Max for yesterday was 58/87ºF.
5/19/2010 7:20 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp 57.2ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from W <5. Min/Max yesterday=50/79ºF. Some gray clouds in the afternoon, but no precip.
5/20/2010 7:20 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M temp 57ºF. Clear. Slight breeze~5 from SW. MIN/Max temp yesterday: 51/79ºF.
5/21/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Clear. Slight breeze <5. Min/Max yesterday=62/80.
5/23/2010 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 62ºF. Clear. Breeze from S ~10. Wind yesterday from 1100 until dusk ~20-30. Gusty. Min/Max for yesterday = 62/88ºF.
5/24/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 55.4ºF. Mostly clear w/ one long cumulus rope along west and others at far horizon W. Moderate wind from w to SW ~ 15-20 - gusty. Min/maxyesterday=58/88ºF.
5/25/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M temp 52ºF. Clear. CALM!! Min/Max yesterday = 52/72ºF.
5/26/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M temp=60.6ºF. Clear. Gusty East canyon winds ~25-35. Min/Max for yesterday = 51/80ºF.
5/27/2010 6:55 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 64.0ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from E. Min/max for yesterday= 61/88ºF.
5/28/2010 7:10 AM 0.01 0.0 M M M temp @ obsv. time =63.3ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from ESE<5. 3 rumbles of Thunder from dark clouds ~1830 to S and SE, but no rain then. Light rain 2115-2200. No T & L then.
5/29/2010 7:30 AM T 0.0 M 0.0 M Temp=63.2ºF. A few thin cirrus/ cirro-cumulus. Cak=lm at this time. A few sprinkles yesterday 1900.
5/30/2010 7:25 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Clear. Calm. Min/max yesterday = 56/90ºF.
5/31/2010 7:25 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 63.2ºF. Clear. Slight breeze ~5 from N. Min/Max yesterday was 62º/88ºF.
6/1/2010 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 63.4ºF. Clear almost calm - very slight breeze from N. Min/max for yesterday= 61º/89ºF.
6/2/2010 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 60.5ºF. Cirrus and cirrocumulus across sky. Slight breeze. Some gray clouds yesterday, but precip.
6/3/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 61.3ºF. Clear. Calm. Min/max temp yesterday was 61/89ºF. (One thermometer said 90.9ºF for high.)
6/4/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Clear. Calm. 64ºF. Min/Max for yesterday=62º/90ºF.
6/7/2010 7:35 AM 0.23 0.0 M M M 71.8ºF.@ obsv. time. Mostly cloudy - stratus, w/some cumulus lower. Min/max yesterday was 65/101ºF.(Another thermometer said 103.8, but the two others were 101.) Short hard rain last evening large drops preceded by thunder and lightning. No hail.
6/8/2010 6:50 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp @ obsv.= 69.7ºF. Thin Cirrostratus layer across entire sky. Slight breeze from E<5. Dark clouds and a little lightning late afternoon to south and SE over and East of Manzano Mts. No precip here.
6/9/2010 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp @obsv. =61.7ºF. Clear with two contrails to SW. Calm. Min/max temp yesterday=66/99ºF.
6/10/2010 6:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp @ obsv. time= 61.5ºF. Clear. Calm. Min/max for yesterday=66/97ºF. Smelled like rain @ 2245, but none in gauge this morn.
6/11/2010 6:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp=61.5ºF. Clear. Calm.
6/12/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp=67.5 Cumulus clouds dot the entire sky. Slight breeze from S/SE. Min Max yesterday=66/98ºF.
6/13/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M temp 58ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from S/SW.
6/14/2010 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 61ºF. Clear. Calm. Min/Max yesterday =58º/80ºF.
6/15/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 62ºF. Clear. Wind varies ~ 15-20 from East. Min/max yesterday=59º/88ºF.
6/16/2010 7:35 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 68.2ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from S. Min/max temp yesterday =65º/89ºF.
6/17/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp 63ºF. Clear. Calm. Min/Max yesterday=62º/92ºF.
6/18/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp 64ºF. Clear. Calm. Yesterday min/max temp= 64º/94ºF.
6/19/2010 7:25 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 66ºF. Clear. Slight breeze. Min/Max yesterday=64º/97ºF.
6/20/2010 7:30 AM T 0.0 M M M Temp70ºF. Clear. Calm. There was a mess of clouds just before sundown, that produced intermittent strong gusts from West, and a few drops of rain ~ 2022.
6/21/2010 7:15 AM T 0.0 M M M Temp=68ºF. Clear. Calm. Min/Max temp yesterday=66º/96ºF. Dark clouds started gathering ~1630 yesterday. A few sprinkles at 1730, along with intermittent gusty winds.
6/22/2010 7:40 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M temp=68ºF. Wispy Cirrus over most of sky & alto cumulus below it in SE quadrant, and seem to be increasing. Calm. Min/max temp yesterday = 66º/97ºF. Some gray clouds in pm, but no rain made it to the ground.
6/23/2010 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 67.5ºF. Clear. Calm.Yesterday's Min/Max temp66º/96.4ºF.
6/24/2010 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp=70ºF. High of 100.0ºF at 1500 yesterday. Low of 64ºF.Cirrus, cirrocumulus. Breeze now only ~ 10 from east. But, STRONG east canyon winds started early evening, and got worse. Knocked 1/4"-1/2" branches off trees; fruit, leaves litter the yard; large filled pots & trash container turned over. At least 40 mph., prob. higher gusts. Huge cumulonimbus clouds to east of Sandia Mts midday. No rain here.
6/25/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M temp 69ºF. "Wispy" cirrus & "washboard" altocumulus. Calm. Min/Max of yesterday= 66º/97ºF.
6/26/2010 7:20 AM 0.05 0.0 M M M Temp64ºF. Clear. Calm. Thunder started at 1615, from dark cumulonimbus to SE and EAst. Rain: a 15 min shower that was LARGE drops. 0.03" from that. More later abt MN at least, but drip line still wet at 0730. Another 0.02".
6/27/2010 7:20 AM 0.05 0.0 M M M 66.6ºF. Clear. Calm. Rain twice last evening: gentle rain, but with thunder & lightning(started 1545) preceding the second rain (started 1635;x 20min) First(started @ 1451 x18min;0.01") was cloud from NE over Sandias; second (0.04"), came from west/SW across valley. Min/Max temp yesterday=63/88ºF.
6/28/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 68ºF. Clear. Wind from East all night - now ~15-20. Min/Max=64º/91ºF.
6/29/2010 7:40 AM 0.26 0.0 M M M 64.2ºF. Cirrus & washboard altocumulus, with a few cumulus right over the Sandias. Min/maz temp yesterday = 58º/88ºF. Nice rain! Thunder & lightning, but no hail or flooding (Street full)but there was both in other lower parts of the city, according to news. We're in the foothills.
6/30/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp.63.9ºF. Totally Clear sky, except for the moon. East canyon winds started morning, and moderately strong all night, now ~ 15-20. Min/Max temp yesterday: 62º/88ºF.
7/1/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 66.3ºF. Clear. Wind from East ~10;was stronger during the night. Min/Max temp=63/87ºF.
7/2/2010 7:45 AM 0.05 0.0 M M M Fluffy Cumulus dot the entire sky. Slight breeze from SW. Min/Max=64/89ºF. Nice thundershower early evening.
7/3/2010 7:45 AM 0.06 0.0 M M M 69.7ºF. Sky dotted with cumulus, and Thunderheads beginning to form over/behind Sandias to east. Rain during the night after 2230, poss. ~2320 (smelled like rain.) and/or 0250 (Scared Dog woke me up.) T & L started ~2100 to west, and sky was all cloudy at 2230. The min/max for yest. =64/94ºF.
7/4/2010 7:30 AM 0.02 0.0 M M M 65.3ºF @ obsv. Clear. Breeze from S/SW~5-10. Very brief light rain yesterday mid afternoon w/ T&L prior.
7/5/2010 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 64ºF. Clear. Breeze ~5 from NW. Min/max yesterday 64/98ºF.
7/6/2010 7:20 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 64.4ºF. Clear. Slight breeze. Min/max temp yesterday was 64/88ºF.
7/7/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Clear. Breeze from East. Min/MAx=64/98ºF. Hard east Canyon wind last evening into the night. Thunderheads gathered to SE over Manzanao Mts. but nothing wet materialized here.
7/8/2010 7:15 AM T 0.0 M M M 65.0ºF. Scattered clouds - Altocumulus; with cumulus over Sandia Mts. to the east, and a bank of ?type at west horizon. East/SE canyon winds all night - now ~15-20, gusting higher. Min/Max temp yesterday= 63º/89ºF. A brief spatter of rain at 1750 last eve.Dk. clouds, T & L several times during the day, but moved off to east each time w/o rain - ~1330, 1545, & 2330.
7/9/2010 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 64.6ºF. Breeze from east ~10, decreaased from last night. Altocumulus mostly solid over western part of sky, clear eastern , with exception of some cumulus peeking over the top of Sandia Mts. to East. Cumulus at North horizon. Min/max temp yesterday=63/88ºF. No rain.
7/10/2010 8:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 66.6ºF. Clear. Breeze from East. Min/Max temp=64/92ºF.
7/11/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 70ºF.Warm! Total layer of overcast,? altocumulus - broken in a few places. Slight breeze~5 from S/SW. "Smelled" like rain at 2330, but no evidence that it actually did rain.
7/12/2010 7:00 AM T 0.0 M M M 65.5ºF. Clear. Calm. Cloudy & overcast all day yesterday. About 20 drops of precip at 1845. Min/max yesterday=70/80ºF.
7/13/2010 7:20 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp=70.8ºF. Clear. Calm. WHERE'S THE MONSOOON?!Min/Max temps yesterday: 66/94ºF.
7/14/2010 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp 70.9ºF. 50% broken cloud cover - altocumulus mostly. Totally calm (Good, as there is a fire burning in the foothills to NE of us ~ 1mi.) Min/Max for yesterday: 70/98ºF.
7/15/2010 7:00 AM T 0.0 M M M Temp 70.4ºF. Calm. Just started to sprinkle lightly. Total altocumulus cloud cover. Min/Max for last 24 hrs. was 70/98ºF. Very warm this morn.
7/16/2010 7:40 AM 0.01 M M M M Broken cloud cover with altocumulus over most of sky. 71.8ºF. Wind from SE ~10. Min/Max for yesterday was 72/98ºF. Rain was early yesterday morn. None later, tho there were dark clouds with T&L to SE over/beyond Manzanos ~1330, and later to SW, but no precip here.
7/17/2010 7:40 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 70.0ºF. Clear. calm. Min/max temp=67/97ºF. Dark clouds with a little thunder mid-afternoon east over mts, but no precip here.
7/18/2010 7:20 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 70.2ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from SE. Min/Max temp for yesterday=70/97ºF.
7/19/2010 7:00 AM 0.04 0.0 M M M Temp at obsv. 71.3ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from ENE <5. Min/Max:70/100ºF. Rain last night: Sprinkles started 2008, but not much rain til 2030, when T&L and mod-light rain started.
7/20/2010 7:40 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 70.2ºF. Altocumulus scattered.Slight breeze. Min/Max=70/97º. Dark clouds yesterday afternoon ~1600-1700, but they dissipated and/or moved east.
7/21/2010 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp=72.9ºF. Altocumulus clouds scattered. Calm. Min/Max temp for yesterday=70/97ºF. (NWS@Airport said it hit 102ºF.)We had dark clouds over & to the east in afternoon, but no precip materialized here. (So far this month we are <10% of usual rainfall for this month:only 0.18". (Usual=1.5->2.0")
7/22/2010 7:20 AM 0.05 0.0 M M M 65.2ºF. Scattered patches of altocumulus clouds. Calm. There was rain last night between 1900& 2145. Street still partially wet when we got home at 2145, and a few sprinkles then. There was lightning all around. Amount in gauge was at 2145. High yesterday was 101.1ºF; low, 64ºF.
7/23/2010 7:25 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Scattered altocumulus, tho most over the Sandia Mts to east. Calm. Min max temp yesterday:64/94ºF. Dark cloud late afternoon evening, but nada.
7/24/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 682ºF. Altocumulus clouds cover 50% of sky, and seem to be consolidating. Very slight breeze from SW. Min/Max for last 24hrs: 64/94ºF.Again, dark clouds gathered several time afternoon & evening, but no actual rain here.
7/25/2010 8:00 AM 1.32 0.0 M M M 68.9ºF. Total cloud cover. Slight breeze. Min/max yesterday:66/74ºF.No sun seen. GOOD RAIN! yesterday finally - the whole month in hr & a half. Sprinkles between 1030-1100. But, then the skies opened at 1329, and it poured until 1500, with two slow downs. T&L, from 1329, but no hail. See significant weather reports. 0.48" in first 20 min; ~3/4" in 33 min.
7/26/2010 7:30 AM 0.47 0.0 M M M 63.0ºF, Total stratus cloud cover. Breeze from ?NE~5. (White-winged dove sitting on wind gauge/vane). Cloudy all day yesterday, but we rec'd no rain til evening (Started sometime between 1730 and 2030, while we were away. (other parts of town rec'v daytime showers.)Gentle continuous rain. 0.23" in gauge at 2145. 0.47" total at 0730 this AM-still raining-started again at 0700 per my husband. No Thunder or lighning or hail. Min/max for last 24hrs: 62/79ºF.
7/27/2010 7:30 AM 0.63 0.0 M 0.0 M 66.0ºF. Clear - not a single wisp! Slight breeze from SE<5. Min/Max for last 24hrs:64º/78ºF. Gentle soaking rain intermittently yesterday from last report. No Thunder or lightning until last storm early evening~1900. 0.57"of the total was by 1100 yesterday.
7/28/2010 7:30 AM T 0.0 M M M 70.4ºF. Mostly clear - a patch of alto cumulus to So. around to W. Breeze from S ~5-10. Min/Max for last 24hrs. = 64º/88ºF. Not sure when it rained - prob. after 2230.There was distant thunder to North& east before that, tho. Just a few drops in bottom of gauge.
7/29/2010 7:50 AM 0.60 0.0 M M M A few scattered patches of altocumulus. Light breeze. Min/Max for last 24 hr=64/86ºF. Good rain yesterday.0.60 is actual amount of two showers - first (0.12")was mod-light : 1429-1445, then stopped. Sudden downpour restarted at 1500 - heavy with gusty east winds.Visibility decreased for a time. T&L with both, no hail.
7/30/2010 7:35 AM T 0.0 M M M 68.5ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from S. Dark clouds gave some "spits" yesterday afternoon, not much else.
7/31/2010 7:45 AM T 0.0 M M M 68.5ºF. Wispy Cirrus, with a patch of altocumulus to SE. Min/Max yesterday=65/88ºF. Just "spits" in the afternoon, tho my husband said "it poured" at his worknear airport about 1800.
8/1/2010 7:45 AM 0.37 0.0 M M M 66.8ºF. Total cloud cover. Calm now. Min/max for last 24hrs.=63/83ºF. Rain several times yesterday - 0.1 at 12:45 - heaviest with thunder/lightning was in evening ~ 2015-2200. Some after. Some spectacular clouds ~2000 - almost like a wall cloud over downtown/valley.
8/2/2010 7:15 AM 0.01 0.0 M M M 63.5ºF. Cirrus. Calm. Min/Max yesterday=62/84ºF. Several short "spits" & "sputters" yesterday. Not much at any one time. Seemed to be more to the east of us. July total was 3.25, all of that but ~ 0.23" was in the last five days.
8/13/2010 7:30 AM T 0.0 M M M 70.4ºF. A few spits ~ 2000 last PM. HAve been out of town X 10d. see multiday accum. report for that time.
8/14/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 68.5ºF. Clear. Very Slight breeze.
8/15/2010 7:25 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 72.9ºF. Clear. Breeze ~5-10. Min/max for last 24 hrs.: 72º/96ºF.
8/16/2010 7:00 AM 1.43 0.0 M M M 62.1ºF. Total cloud cover, cumulus, stratus Fractus? Min/max for last 24 hrs= 62/88ºF. Rain between 1500-1600 (away from home):0.36". Sprinkling at 1600 still/again. Later, rain started at 1901 - hard. Abated but continued lighter on & off most of evening. Not much T&L, tho some. 1.0" at 2000. Raining at 2130 and still at 2230.
8/17/2010 7:10 AM 0.11 0.0 M M M Temp@ obsv=62.9ºF. Calm. altocumulus clouds to SE over Manzano mts. Otherwise clear. Pavement/bricks still wet. Rain sometime after 02:15 this day when dog woke me because of distant thunder & lightning. Min/max for last 24hrs.: 62/84ºF. Dark clouds yesterday midafternoon to NE over the Sandia Mts, but no rain here.
8/19/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 68ºF. Clear. Calm. Min/Maxfor the last 24hrs. :66/91ºF. Dark clouds yesterday overhead & to east mid-afternoon, but no rain.
8/20/2010 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 65.5ºF. Clear except for a couple of cirrus patches east over Sandia & Manzano mts.
8/22/2010 7:20 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 71.2ºF. Still. Clouds across entire sky - altocumulus, other cumulus. Min/max temp: 64/97ºF.
8/23/2010 7:30 AM 0.77 0.0 M M M Temp 66ºF, A few patches of wispy cirrus across sky. Calm. Nice soaking hard rain between 1620 & 1715. Thunder & lightning. 0.28" at 1635; 0.52 at 1645. Min/max for last 24 hrs:65º/89ºF.
8/24/2010 7:30 AM 0.25 0.0 M M M temp 66ºF. Broken Altocumulus& cumulus moving across most of sky. Gusty east canyon winds 25-40. Min/Max for the last 24 hrs.:66º/88ºF. Much thunder & spectacular lightning all around last night. No hail, light rain,and not as much rain as I thot we would get.
8/25/2010 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp 61ºF. Mostly clear with one patch of wispy cirrus east over the Sandia Mts.-South Peak.Still have SE Canyon winds, tho decreased to abt. 10-15. Min/Max for last 24 hrs. = 60/78ºF. Strong (hard to walk aginstit sometimes)East wind all day yesterday and night.
8/26/2010 7:40 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp @ obsv.: 59.4ºF. Clear, slight haze. Slight breeze from SE. Min/Max for yesterday=58/82ºF.
8/27/2010 6:50 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 62.3ºF. Thin wispy cirrus overhead and to east. Mostly clear elsewhere. A cloud band along far west horizon. Calm. Min/Max yesterday:58/87ºF.
8/28/2010 7:40 AM T 0.0 M M M 63ºF. Partly overcast. Calm. My husband said it was sprinkling lightly at 0535, when dog woke us up. No T or L. None in gauge when I got up. Min/Max last 24hrs.: 62/82ºF.
8/29/2010 6:50 AM 0.03 0.0 M M M 61.7ºF. Clear. Calm. Light rain twice yesterday: 1500 & 2000.
9/2/2010 7:15 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 60ºF. Clear. Calm. Min/max for last 24hrs.: 58/89ºF.
9/3/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 59.5ºF. Clear. Very Windy. STRONG east canyon winds started at dark last evening to 40-50+ with minor damage: much Leaf litter, 1/4" twigs, fruit blown off; large planted pots & tomatoes with cages blown over; plants shredded;iron obelisk blown over; trash receptacle over; bird bath top with stone in it blown away.
9/4/2010 8:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M
9/5/2010 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 66.3ºF. Clear. Slight breeze. Min/max for last 24 hrs: 60/88ºF.
9/6/2010 8:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Clear. Calm. Min/max for last 24hrs.: 64/88ºF.
9/7/2010 7:10 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 62.1ºF. Mostly clear overhead, with band of clouds barely visible at south and west horizons. East Canyon wind ~30, gusting higher, started about 2300.
9/8/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 72ºF. Mostly cloudy: altocumulus & cirrocumulus. Calm Now, but mod-strong wind last evening into night. No precip yet. I noticed yesterday some trees have begun to "turn" already. LAst min/max:64/87ºF.
9/9/2010 6:55 AM 0.17 0.0 M M M Temp64.8ºF. broken cu,ulus gray clouds across entire sky. Some are moving north. Slight breeze from SE<5. Nice rain yesterday late afternoon. No T,L,or H.
9/10/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp at obsv.:59.4ºF. Clear. Breeze ~5-10 from N/NE. Min/max last 24hrs. 58/80ºF.
9/11/2010 7:35 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M temp=54.4ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from ?East. Min/max temp for last 24hrs. = 52/79ºF.
9/12/2010 7:40 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp 61.4ºF. Very Thin wispy cirrus across most of sky. Two contrails. Calm - no breeze. Mni/max temp last 24 hrs: 60/86ºF.
9/13/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp 64.4ºF. Partly cloudy: "washboardy" altocumulus over Sandia Mts. to the east; sirrus overhead centrally; and a layer of cumulus to west. Clouds seem to be changing, increasing. Calm right now. Min/max for last 24hrs.: 62/88ºF.
9/14/2010 7:30 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M Temp 63.2ºF. Mostly clear, except for a group of cirrocumulus clouds to SE over Sandia Mts. Very slight breeze from S. Min/Max for last 24hrs.: 62/89ºF.
9/15/2010 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 64.4ºF. Clear. Calm. MIn/max for yesterday=64/88ºF
9/16/2010 7:40 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp. 62.4ºF. Clear. calm. Min/Max: 61/90ºF.
9/17/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 61.4ºF. Clear. Calm.
9/18/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp: 64.8ºF. Mostly clear with a few tiny dots of cloud over Sandias to the east. Very slight breeze from E.
9/19/2010 7:40 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 66.1ºF. Clear. Calm. min/max=62º/89ºF.
9/20/2010 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp=64.3ºF. Clear except to east - cumulus/cumulostratus gray clouds over the Sandia Mts., and seem to be coming west. Breeze from east ~ 5. Min/Max:63/88ºF.
9/21/2010 7:50 AM 0.16 0.0 M M M 62.8ºF. Clear overhead, but a patch of "washboard" altocumulus to east over Sandia Mts. with cumulus in the lower half of the western sky. They seem to be moving this way. Slight breeze from S/SW ~ 5. Thunder & lightning all around preceded the rain between 2000*2100.
9/22/2010 7:25 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M Temp 68.6ºF. Total cloud cover - altostratus with alto/nimbostratus in several different layers. Moving & changibg as I watched. Slight breeze from SE<5. Smells "wet", but no evidence that we've had any precip yet. Min/Max last 24hrs:68/87ºF.
9/23/2010 7:20 AM 1.91 0.0 M M M 58.0ºF. Total low cloud cover alto/nimbostratus, that seems to be breaking up from the west. Occasional slight breeze from SW. Min/max yesterday was 56/87ºF. Great rain yesterday. Several nice burstsduring day, eve and early this am.: 0.06" @1200; 0.31"@ 1400; 0.80" @ 1730; 1.00+~1" in bottom of gauge @ 2150; 1.91" at 0720. No thunder or lightning.[This is the most we've had in one day sinceI started this in 2005.]
9/24/2010 7:25 AM T 0.0 M M M Cool this AM! 54.1ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from S/SE ~5. Trace= spits left over from yesterday's storm for a small time after I checked.
9/26/2010 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 61.1ºF. Clear. Calm. Min/Max: 52/80ºF.
9/27/2010 7:45 AM 0.00 0.0 M 0.0 M 59.8ºF. Clear. Calm. Min/max:58º/79ºF.
9/28/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 61.1ºF. Min/max=60/86ºF. Clear. Slight breeze from NE<5.
9/29/2010 7:00 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 61.6ºF. Min/max=60/88ºF. Clear. Calm.
9/30/2010 7:40 AM 0.00 0.0 M M M 65.5ºF. Min/max62/88ºF. Clear. East canyon wind ~20.



Start Date End Date & Time Duration in Days Precipitation Snow Depth Snow Depth SWE Notes
12/26/2009 12/27/2009 7:00 AM 2 0.00 M M I was out of town 12/25/09 1000-12/27/09 1830. There was no precip., either in the gauge or per brother's report.
8/3/2010 8/12/2010 8:00 PM 10 0.06 M M We were out of town for 10d.
8/30/2010 8/31/2010 7:30 PM 2 0.00 0.0 M Out of town Sun-Tues PM. [There WAS hard rain Sun. pm ~ 1900 in Cochise County, AZ where we were tho, with a nice full double rainbow afterwards. None there Monday (up to 1900), however, and none in Tucson, AZ Tuesday (up to 1700).]



Observation Date Observation Time Notes Largest Stone Size Average Stone Size Smallest Stone Size Stone Consistency Duration Minutes Durration Accuracy Damage Timing More Rain than Hail Hail Started Largest Hail Started Angle of Impact Number of Stones on Pad Distance Between Stones on Pad Depth of Stones on Ground
10/8/2009 12:10 PM No hail pad. 1/4" Pea Size NA Rice Hard|White Ice 1 1min no damage Continuous True Before rain Same time as smaller hail 10-20
3/7/2010 2:22 PM No hail pad. Hail started after rain, but became the dominant item for brief (~1 min.) time. No rain at time of hail.Was very even- less than pea-size. No thunder or lightning, but a short burst of strong wind with it. 1/4" Pea Size Rice Rice Hard|White Ice 1 1min no damage Continuous True After rain Same time as smaller hail 10-20
3/7/2010 9:01 PM No hailpad. Hail came 1 min after large Thunder boom & lighnting & rain start at 2100, Hail mostly very uniform size slightly smaller than pea, but bigger than rice. Mostly uniformly round. Very heavy times 1-2 min after started, the middle portion with very strong wind. Was hitting the south-facing windows really hard, i.e. driven from the south. Moved east rapidly. T&L gone with in 15 min, tho rain continued softer. 1/4" Pea Size Rice Rice Hard|White Ice 2 1min no damage Continuous True After rain Same time as smaller hail