As strong, cold outbreak has moved south down the Front Range, it has left behind several inches of snow. View above is from Las Vegas, New Mexico, this morning, looking across the park to the historic Plaza Hotel.
At bottom is photo taken by our neighbors, the Ferner's, of smoke somewhere over southern California on Saturday morning. They were on a direct flight from SFO to TUS.
Models continue to forecast a significant windy period that will feature gusty, easterly winds over southeastern Arizona from this afternoon into Wednesday. Forecast above is from 06 UTC WRF-NAM for 10-m winds at 09:00 pm MST tonight. Forecast below (from same model run) is for Sonoita skew-T valid at 05:00 pm tomorrow afternoon.
Sonoita is almost directly east of the gap in the Santa Ritas that leads to very strong winds at the Mt. Hopkins RAWS site. The forecast soundings at this location indicate a very strong wind event there, with winds beginning today and extending into tomorrow night. The forecast soundings, if accurate, indicate winds at the RAWS site could gust in the 60 to 80 mph range.
The system is also bringing our area the coldest temperatures of the Fall. Here at house the low dropped to 30 F, our first freeze of cold season (turned on the heating systems yesterday afternoon - first need to use either HVAC system in about six weeks). I see that Sasabe RAWS (off to the southwest of here) dropped down to a very cold 22 F this morning.
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