John Farley
Supporter
On Saturday, January 23, while driving from Santa Fe to the Albuquerque airport, and then while waiting for my flight to depart, I was treated to some of the best structure I have seen associated with convective snow squalls. As I have said before, I have always been impressed with how much, under the right conditions, winter convective snow squalls and snow showers can resemble summer thunderstorms. In this case, one of them even WAS a thunderstorm, as it produced a couple of lightning strikes in the Manzano Mountains southeast of Albuquerque. A few of these even appeard to have produced a little hail in addition to strong bursts of snow and graupel. Here area few pictures:
Additional pictures and a more detailed report on what I observed can be found at:
http://www.johnefarley.com/squall12310.htm
These snow squalls were associated with the final impulse in a series of storms that affected New Mexico from January 19 through January 23 - the same system that caused widespread flooding and mudslides in California and Arizona, as well as up to 5 feet of snow in the mountainous parts of those states. The system had dried out a little by the time it reached New Mexico, but still produced 2-3 feet of snow in the mountains with locally heavier accumulations, as well as thundersnow on at least 2 different days. In addition to the link above, a day-by-day description of what I observed and additional pictures can be found at:
http://www.johnefarley.com/snow110.htm
Additional pictures and a more detailed report on what I observed can be found at:
http://www.johnefarley.com/squall12310.htm
These snow squalls were associated with the final impulse in a series of storms that affected New Mexico from January 19 through January 23 - the same system that caused widespread flooding and mudslides in California and Arizona, as well as up to 5 feet of snow in the mountainous parts of those states. The system had dried out a little by the time it reached New Mexico, but still produced 2-3 feet of snow in the mountains with locally heavier accumulations, as well as thundersnow on at least 2 different days. In addition to the link above, a day-by-day description of what I observed and additional pictures can be found at:
http://www.johnefarley.com/snow110.htm
