Doug Kerr
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New Mexico is justly famed for its good weather, but in our little pocket (the "Tularosa Basin") we have perhaps the best weather in the state. At times when the entire state is, unusual as it is, beset by bad weather, we see the statewide weather summary maps on TV with red here, and yellow there, and purple almost everyplace else. Then, right where we are, is a little island of "white" - our "donut hole", where there is nothing bad happening.
We get perhaps 12 inches of rain a year hear, and it mostly conveniently falls at night (reminding one of the Arthurian dictums about weather in "Camelot"). In a typical year it perhaps snows twice, with maybe 1/2 inch deposited, usually gone by mid afternoon.
The sky is most often fully clear, but occasionally there are puffy white clouds to be seen.
But snow is very common up in the nearby Sacramento mountains. And from time to time, the clouds descend almost to our elevation.
This shot looks eastward to the Sacramentos from just in front of our home.
Douglas A. Kerr: Low-hanging clouds
We were actually getting a little rain from this overall situation.
By way of reference, the ground elevation from which the shot was taken is 4573 ft MSL. The home seen just above the large water tank is the last one on our street (which begins to "switchback" just beyond that tank) is at 5250 MSL.
Best regards,
Doug
We get perhaps 12 inches of rain a year hear, and it mostly conveniently falls at night (reminding one of the Arthurian dictums about weather in "Camelot"). In a typical year it perhaps snows twice, with maybe 1/2 inch deposited, usually gone by mid afternoon.
The sky is most often fully clear, but occasionally there are puffy white clouds to be seen.
But snow is very common up in the nearby Sacramento mountains. And from time to time, the clouds descend almost to our elevation.
This shot looks eastward to the Sacramentos from just in front of our home.
Douglas A. Kerr: Low-hanging clouds
We were actually getting a little rain from this overall situation.
By way of reference, the ground elevation from which the shot was taken is 4573 ft MSL. The home seen just above the large water tank is the last one on our street (which begins to "switchback" just beyond that tank) is at 5250 MSL.
Best regards,
Doug