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Portales New Mexico
New Mexico - Forecast discussions
FXUS65 KABQ 182015AFDABQAREA FORECAST DISCUSSIONNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM215 PM MDT MON JUL 18 2005.DISCUSSION...MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE WILL CONTINUE TO BE EXTENT ANDPLACEMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS INTO NEXT WEEK. LONG RANGEFORECAST HIGHLY DEPENDENT ON TRACK OF REMAINS OF HURRICANE EMILY.A SLOWER START TO CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON AS ECHOES JUST STARTINGNOW OVER THE WRN AND CNTRL MOUNTAINS. MID LEVEL DRYING AS SEEN ON WVSATELLITE...AND WARMING ALOFT AS WELL...HAS HELD UP INITIATION OFSTORMS SO FAR OVER THE W AND N. MEANWHILE LOW LEVELS ARE PLENTY MOISTFROM THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY ON E. THE BACK DOOR COLD FRONT MOVED INTOTHE NE THIS AM BUT GROUND TO A HALT THIS PM. THE NE HAS STABILIZED ABIT WITH LAPSE RATES ONLY AROUND 7 DEG C/KM IN THE 700 TO 500 MBLAYER. HIGHER LAPSE RATES OUT W BUT LESS MOISTURE TO WORK WITH. THEMIXED SIGNALS MAKE FOR A TOUGH CALL LATE THIS PM INTO TONIGHT ONEXTENT OF CONVECTION. WITH A FEW MORE HOURS OF SUNSHINE AND HEATINGBELIEVE WE WILL GET MO ... [Read More]
State Energy Program: From Minnesota to New Mexico, E85 Expands beyond the Corn Belt
Most of the ethanol in New Mexico is delivered by Illinois-based Archer Daniels Midland Company to distributor EverReady Oil in Albuquerque. It arrives as fully blended E85. A small amount of sorghum-based ethanol is produced at a plant in Portales, New Mexico. None of it goes into E85, however. Alternative fuel advocates hope to someday use renewable sources of biomass, such as wild grasses and forest thinnings, to make ethanol. ... [Read More]
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