East of the river anyway. At the airport, they recorded 0.17" of rain, the second-rainiest day (0.22" on 2/21/13) in nearly a year (since 0.63" on 8/18/12).
Needless to say, these amounts are tiny. Two small-ish showers a year, plus assorted sprinkles, ain't enough to keep the region from slipping into hyper-aridity.
The current pattern is holding - maybe slipping a bit to the west as the ridge moves slowly westward. Some chance of rain today. Moisture enters the U.S. from the tropics through California, does a hairpin turn in Oregon and Idaho, and then loops south through Colorado, where it enters NM. It's odd to have tropical moisture enter the state from the north, but as long as it works, that's OK.
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