NEW MEXICO WASN’T AS WARM IN MARCH AS OTHER WESTERN STATES WHICH SET RECORD HIGHS. BUT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGIST BRENT WACHTER TELLS 770 KKOB SOME PARTS OF NEW MEXICO DID SEE TEMPERATURES THAT WERE WARMER THAN USUAL.
HE SAYS ALBUQUERQUE WAS ABOUT FIVE DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL … CLAYTON WAS FOUR DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL, AND ROSWELL WAS ONLY ONE DEGREE ABOVE NORMAL.
WACHTER SAYS ALBUQUERQUE’S AVERAGE TEMPERATURE IN MARCH WAS 53-DEGREES. ITS AVERAGE HIGH WAS 66…SIX DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL.
HE SAYS SOME AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO WERE ACTUALLY COOLER THAN NORMAL IN MARCH.
