I'm in ABQ now - Poncho et al, do you know where I can find... (Rio Rancho: live, yard)
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Algiz, hope you enjoy your stay here. We always visit El Zocalo (the center used to be across the road, where the car side is) to gather materials to send to prospective visitors or to have on hand for actual visitors. Also, you're experiencing the wettest period we've experienced in 20 years here.
a hotel could be a place to find some touristy info.
Good suggestion. I'm a low brow guy when it comes to moteling but most places like Motel 6, Days Inn, and Super 8 have a couple dozen fold out flyers of tourist destinations such as Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands National Monument, etc. Not ALL of them do but most of them do.
Good suggestion. I'm a low brow guy when it comes to moteling but most places like Motel 6, Days Inn, and Super 8 have a couple dozen fold out flyers of tourist destinations such as Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands National Monument, etc. Not ALL of them do but most of them do.
Algiz, hope you enjoy your stay here. We always visit El Zocalo (the center used to be across the road, where the car side is) to gather materials to send to prospective visitors or to have on hand for actual visitors. Also, you're experiencing the wettest period we've experienced in 20 years here.
Just a couple years ago was one of the driest winter seasons on record. Keep in mind that in NM it's not possible to predict the weather from year to year, it's random and highly variable. This is a wet year. Next year could be an equally wet year. The year after might be dry or a medium-level mix. The most you can say is that within a ten or twenty year block, you'll have a few very wet years (lot of snow), you'll have a few very dry years (zero snow), and you'll have some that are medium. The same can be said about temperatures - you'll see a handful of bitterly cold winters, you'll see a handful of mild winters, etc. As I mentioned before, Albuquerque has seen -30F in the winter: this happens once every three or four decades. My mom mentioned that a couple years ago it was -15F or something like that. Part of my mom's youth was raised in the mountains in northern NM, she remembers one time where it was -40F (Alaska temperatures).
Just a couple years ago was one of the driest winter seasons on record. Keep in mind that in NM it's not possible to predict the weather from year to year, it's random and highly variable. This is a wet year. Next year could be an equally wet year. The year after might be dry or a medium-level mix. The most you can say is that within a ten or twenty year block, you'll have a few very wet years (lot of snow), you'll have a few very dry years (zero snow), and you'll have some that are medium. The same can be said about temperatures - you'll see a handful of bitterly cold winters, you'll see a handful of mild winters, etc. As I mentioned before, Albuquerque has seen -30F in the winter: this happens once every three or four decades. My mom mentioned that a couple years ago it was -15F or something like that. Part of my mom's youth was raised in the mountains in northern NM, she remembers one time where it was -40F (Alaska temperatures).
We had a house in Angel Fire for many years. It got colder than -40 there a number times. Also, Angel Fire got 15-20 inches of snow yesterday (above 9,000 feet) and is expected to get 15-20 inches more by Monday. Our house was at 9,000 feet, and I'm glad we sold it a couple of years ago.
As I mentioned before, Albuquerque has seen -30F in the winter: this happens once every three or four decades.
You've quoted your -30F a couple of times now, but this just isn't true. See https://wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?nmalbu for the actual historic NWS date for ABQ. The coldest temperature on record is -17F, recorded in 1965, over 50 years ago. And the climate has warmed up since then.
You've quoted your -30F a couple of times now, but this just isn't true. See https://wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?nmalbu for the actual historic NWS date for ABQ. The coldest temperature on record is -17F, recorded in 1965, over 50 years ago. And the climate has warmed up since then.
We're going to have to investigate more deeply, because I'm darned sure there is an official record of -30 for Abq or vicinity. In fact just a few years ago my mom was telling me it was -15 or something like that. Just recently.
Algiz, hope you enjoy your stay here. We always visit El Zocalo (the center used to be across the road, where the car side is) to gather materials to send to prospective visitors or to have on hand for actual visitors. Also, you're experiencing the wettest period we've experienced in 20 years here.
Hahahahaha!!!! I'm back in the PNW now, and the day we got back it went from an unusually sunny and warm time to...rain! I believe it was Friday when I woke up and thought I was still in Washington, waking up to total low gray clouds and dreary rain much of the day. I then learned that it was unusually warm in Seattle, 85 degrees! Our temps and weather conditions were reversed, it seemed.
Yes, if this had been our first visit to NM in spring, we would have been awed with the greenery. Everything was green: the hills, the mountains, the sides of the roads, everything! What a sight it was. What we were most enamored with, however, were the skies.
I've never seen such dynamic beauty. I realized on this 4th trip now for us to NM that it is the sky that is the most magnificent for us. We prefer lush green foliage, so we're definitely having to work to fully appreciate the terrain, but the skies - now those are awe-inspiring. And the vast vistas, so far we can see, miles and miles and miles. We got back into our lush, green forest, and...ummm...we feel kinda...um, choked. Suffocating. Pushed down upon. So there you go. Beauty everywhere, and rain, well, we have now experienced ABQ in the rain, a first for us.
We saw a rainbow arc with both ends visible. I've only seen that once, maybe twice in my life. The skies were just utterly amazing, truly! On the Pacific coast, skies can be pretty, but they are rarely so dynamic or muliti-faceted. We loved the skies!
Hahahahaha!!!! I'm back in the PNW now, and the day we got back it went from an unusually sunny and warm time to...rain!... Our temps and weather conditions were reversed, it seemed.
Yes, if this had been our first visit to NM in spring, we would have been awed with the greenery. Everything was green:
This year the southwest experienced an unusually wet and prolonged winter. My mom said it snowed almost every week in Albuquerque (or at least often enough to feel like it was pretty constant), and even here in Nor-Cal we are still in the throes of winter (cool temps and rainy, overcast). Most winters are not like this.
We saw a rainbow arc with both ends visible. I've only seen that once, maybe twice in my life. The skies were just utterly amazing, truly! On the Pacific coast, skies can be pretty, but they are rarely so dynamic or muliti-faceted. We loved the skies!
If it's rainbows you want, we get plenty of them (many complete ones). We see a lot of doubles, including complete ones, a few triples (always partial), and we've seen one quadruple (although it was broken up). These mostly happen during our so-called monsoon season.
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