More rain is forecast in various parts of the state today, and Thursday as well. Wonderful!
The weather station at the Albuquerque Sunport (which storms seem to dodge and dance around, so it seems to rain there last and least) logged 0.85 inches of rain. Excellent!
They had trouble with some street flooding and road closures. C'est la vie.
The storm went directly up the Rio Grande River Valley, then fanned northeast - precisely the driest areas of the state, the places hit the very hardest by the unrelenting drought. It was like the storm was expertly designed to relieve the most stress.
Reminds me of the freakish rain that arrived second week in October, a couple of years ago, when I was there. Maybe these tropically-derived rains are a monsoonal feature of very-late summer. Wish they'd happen more often and were more reliable.
As far as relieving the drought is concerned, it's a start.
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