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New Mexico Weather 3/8 Morning - 31° Above Normal

The New Mexico Weather Podcast by The Weather Podcast, Inc.

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Good morning. New Mexico. I'm Michael Nally. Step outside today and you'll feel temperatures that belong in May, not early March. We're talking record-breaking warmth under brilliant sunshine. Las Cruces soars to 73 degrees. Albuquerque tops out near 69. Even the northern mountains get in on the action — Santa Fe hits 62 with northwest winds gusting to 15 miles an hour. This is the kind of warmth that makes you want to cancel all your plans and just sit outside. But here's the serious part. While we're basking in this heat, critical fire weather conditions are building across the eastern plains. A Red Flag Warning kicks in at noon and runs until 8 P.M. For northeast and east central New Mexico. Gusty westerly winds, humidity dropping to single digits. And bone-dry vegetation create dangerous fire spread potential. Any spark could explode fast. If ... 
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