We're in a very moist airmass with this morning's sounding at EPZ showing relative humidity nearly 70 percent up to 350 hPa (8.3 km MSL). Rainfall amounts in Las Cruces ranged from 0.35 to 1.06 inches as the map below shows.
Below are this morning's observations at few NWS Cooperative weather stations.
Yesterday Today
Station High(F) Normal Low(F) Normal Record Low Precip
Antelope Wells 80 85 48 50 38 (1995) 0.00"NMSU campus 76 85 52 50 33 (1965) 0.40"
As a comparison at the NMSU campus station, a CoCoRaHS gauge recorded 0.39 and the Climate Center tipping bucket read 0.38 inches. All these measurements are located within 10 feet of each other. At the NMSU Leyendecker Ag Science Center we recorded 0.6" in the Climate Center tipping bucket and a nearby CoCoRaHS gauge registered 0.72".
Today's AQI forecast shows good air quality over the region and all of the southwest US.
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