Weather Alerts for New Mexico

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Current Alerts for Santa Rosa, NM: High Wind Watch

1. Fire Weather Watch for: Chaves County Plains; Eddy Plains; Lea; Gaines

2. Fire Weather Watch for: Southwest Deserts and Lowlands; South Central Lowlands And Southern Rio Grande Valley; Capitan And Sacramento Mountains; El Paso; Hudspeth

3. High Wind Watch for: Chaves County Plains

4. High Wind Watch for: Glorieta Mesa Including Glorieta Pass; East Slopes Sangre de Cristo Mountains; Central Highlands; South Central Mountains; Johnson and Bartlett Mesas Including Raton Pass; Far Northeast Highlands; Northeast Highlands; Union County; Harding County; Eastern San Miguel County; Guadalupe County; Quay County; Curry County; Roosevelt County; De Baca County; Eastern Lincoln County; Southwest Chaves County

5. High Wind Watch for: Guadalupe Mountains of Eddy County; Eddy County Plains; Guadalupe Mountains Above 7000 Feet; Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains; Eastern Culberson County

6. High Wind Watch for: Sacramento Mountains Above 7500 Feet; East Slopes Sacramento Mountains Below 7500 Feet

7. High Wind Watch for: Sacramento Mountains Above 7500 Feet; East Slopes Sacramento Mountains Below 7500 Feet

8. Red Flag Warning for: Northeast Highlands

9. Red Flag Warning for: Northeast Highlands

10. Red Flag Warning for: Northeast Plains; East Central Plains

11. Winter Storm Watch for: Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains; Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains

12. Winter Storm Watch for: Tusas Mountains Including Chama

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Weather Topic: What are Hole Punch Clouds?

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Hole Punch Clouds Next Topic: Mammatus Clouds

A hole punch cloud is an unusual occurrence when a disk-shaped hole appears in a cirrostratus, cirrocumulus, or altocumulus cloud.

When part of the cloud forms ice crystals, water droplets in the surrounding area of the cloud evaporate. The effect of this process produces a large elliptical gap in the cloud. The hole punch cloud formation is rare, but it is not specific to any geographic area.

Other names which have been used to describe this phenomena include fallstreak hole, skypunch, and cloud hole.

Next Topic: Mammatus Clouds

Weather Topic: What are Nimbostratus Clouds?

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Nimbostratus Clouds Next Topic: Precipitation

A nimbostratus cloud is similar to a stratus cloud in its formless, smooth appearance. However, a nimbostratus cloud is darker than a stratus cloud, because it is thicker.

Unlike a stratus cloud, a nimbostratus cloud typically brings with it the threat of moderate to heavy precipitation. In some cases, the precipitation may evaporate before reaching the ground, a phenomenon known as virga.

Next Topic: Precipitation