Cold Front Approaching
According to Eddie Garcia, Meteorologist with KOB4 in Albuquerque, NM: "Hold onto your hats! A backdoor cold front will move in Thursday and could bring canyon winds and showers to New Mexico.
You may want to bring a rain jacket if you go to the New Mexico State Fair. Temperatures will cool down some with this."
They did. We awoke Friday morning to 59 degrees.
A backdoor cold front occurs when the clockwise motion around a high-pressure system pulls in colder air toward the south and west of it, in this case resulting in a line of clouds just above the 10k' elevation in which the mountain pushes warm air up into cooler regions.
This is an HDR image cobbled together from six frames of three exposures each for a total of 18 frames. Photoshop Merge to Panorama was used to stitch the images. A double-click on the image will take you closer to the mountain and reveal more details.
Cold Front Approaching
According to Eddie Garcia, Meteorologist with KOB4 in Albuquerque, NM: "Hold onto your hats! A backdoor cold front will move in Thursday and could bring canyon winds and showers to New Mexico.
You may want to bring a rain jacket if you go to the New Mexico State Fair. Temperatures will cool down some with this."
They did. We awoke Friday morning to 59 degrees.
A backdoor cold front occurs when the clockwise motion around a high-pressure system pulls in colder air toward the south and west of it, in this case resulting in a line of clouds just above the 10k' elevation in which the mountain pushes warm air up into cooler regions.
This is an HDR image cobbled together from six frames of three exposures each for a total of 18 frames. Photoshop Merge to Panorama was used to stitch the images. A double-click on the image will take you closer to the mountain and reveal more details.