YOUR EMPTY FLOWER POTS AND BARRELS GET ANOTHER CHANCE TO FILL UP WITH RAINWATER THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE TELLS US MORE RAIN IS ON THE WAY FOR CENTRAL NEW MEXICO … AND WESTERN PARTS OF THE STATE CAN EXPECT RAIN OVER THE WEEKEND.
METEOROLOGIST TODD SHOEMAKE WITH THE WEATHER SERVICE SAYS CENTRAL NEW MEXICO COULD ALSO GET MORE RAIN THIS WEEKEND. BUT HE DOUBTS IT’LL CAUSE FLOODING. SHOEMAKE SAYS THESE STORMS WILL MOVE FASTER THAN THE USUAL MONSOON STORMS. THEY’LL MOVE THROUGH AT 8 TO 10 MILES PER HOUR INSTEAD OF 20 TO 25 MILES PER HOUR.
BUT SHOEMAKE SAYS THOSE STORMS WILL PRODUCE LIGHTNING, WHICH HAS BEEN DEADLY THIS YEAR. HE SAYS THERE HAVE BEEN 17 LIGHTNING-RELATED DEATHS ACROSS THE NATION THIS YEAR … SO GET INDOORS OR INSIDE A VEHICLE.
SHOEMAKE TELLS US ONE OF THOSE 17 LIGHTNING DEATHS WAS A MOTORCYCLIST HIT JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO IN RUIDOSO.
BERNALILLO COUNTY IS REMINDING RESIDENTS THEY CAN GET FREE SAND AND SAND BAGS AT COUNTY FIRE STATIONS. THE SAND IS BEING PROVIDED BY THE COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT AND THE BAGS COME FROM THE ALBUQUERQUE METROPOLITAN ARROYO FLOOD CONTROL AUTHORITY, OR “AMAFCA”. YOU STILL NEED TO FILL THE BAGS AND TAKE THEM HOME.
