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Heavy Rainfall and Severe Thunderstorm Threats for the Plains and Southeast

A frontal boundary extending from the western High Plains to the Southeast will focus additional showers and thunderstorms this weekend. Some of these storms may become severe, alongside frequent lightning, and isolated instances of flash flooding. Meanwhile dry conditions will continue for the Great Basin where fire weather concerns linger. For the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, seasonable weather. Read More >

March in Albuquerque

Long term (1893-present) avg. temperature = 47.2 & avg. precipitation = 0.44 inches
Ten Warmest Ten Driest Ten Coldest Ten Wettest
1.  2017 54.8 1.  1902 TR 1.  1913 40.8 1.  1998 2.34
2.  1910 54.6      1904 TR 2.  1948 40.9 2.  1973 2.18
3.  1972 53.6      1905 TR 3.  1924 41.0 3.  1958 1.71
4.  2011 53.2     1917 TR 4.  1969 41.1 4.  1968 1.48
     2004 53.2     1955 TR 5.  1962 41.2 5.  2003 1.45
 6.  2015  53.0      1956 TR 6.  1964 41.5 6.  2000 1.27
7.  1989 52.7      1966 TR 7.  1917 42.2 7.  1919 1.25
     1974 52.7      2002

TR

8.  1952 42.3 8.  2005 1.12
9.  1967 52.0      2016 TR 9.  1909 42.6 9.  1999 1.10
10. 1997 51.8 10. 1934 0.01 10. 1958 42.8 10.  1926 1.08
         1896 0.01        
               

 

March Mean Temperatures and Monthly Precipitation for Albuquerque since 1893
  00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09
1890       45.8 45.2 45.2 49.4 45.5 45.6 48.8
        0.22 0.18 0.07 0.01 0.72 0.34 0.40
1900 49.1 45.6 43.0 46.6 51.2 48.4 51.0 49.8 48.4 42.6
  0.13 0.15 TR 0.38 TR TR 0.30 0.02 0.03 0.11
1910 54.6 50.1 44.7 40.8 44.4 43.0 50.1 42.2 48.0 44.2
  0.30 0.42 0.74 0.15 0.40 0.51 0.68 TR 0.98 1.25
1920 44.0 49.3 43.0 43.0 41.0 50.2 45.2 47.1 49.2 45.9
  0.43 0.86 0.47 0.99 0.58 0.07 1.08 0.35 0.10 0.08
1930 43.0 45.9 43.8 47.2 49.3 46.2 47.1 43.4 46.2 46.2
  0.74 0.52 0.27 0.09 0.01 0.03 0.11 0.63 0.22 0.67
1940 49.0 45.0 43.3 48.2 44.4 45.0 47.9 47.4 40.9 47.9
  0.48 1.00 0.39 0.23 0.49 0.50 1.03 0.03 0.41 0.65
1950 47.9 46.3 42.3 48.8 46.0 47.4 49.2 47.3 42.8 45.9
  0.04 0.29 0.59 0.74 0.24 TR TR 0.52 1.71 0.42
1960 49.9 47.0 41.2 45.2 41.5 44.6 45.6 52.0 46.7 41.1
  0.44 0.61 0.18 0.55 0.13 0.49 TR 0.25 1.48 0.41
1970 44.1 47.7 53.6 45.1 52.8 45.0 44.3 43.2 50.2 48.4
  0.42 0.03 0.08 2.18 0.85 0.95 0.09 0.63 0.54 0.14
1980 46.1 46.2 47.4 46.9 46.8 47.5 50.9 43.7 47.0 52.8
  0.60 0.80 0.84 0.61 0.62 0.70 0.17 0.07 0.85 0.48
1990 48.6 46.1 48.9 48.8 50.2 50.7 46.8 51.8 46.2 50.7
  0.41 0.14 0.63 0.22 0.59 0.16 0.02 0.11 2.34 1.10
2000 47.7 48.4 47.5 47.5 53.2 45.9 48.4 50.8 48.7 50.2
  1.27 0.27 TR 1.45 0.67 1.12 0.14 0.64 TR 0.31
 2010  46.6 53.2  51.1 51.6  49.5 53.0 51.5 54.8 50.2 50.2
   0.40 TR  0.20 0.17 0.22  0.11  TR 0.20 0.18 0.73
2020 51.2 47.6                
   0.31 0.12