"You've never seen a Thanksgiving like that before," reads the opening line of an
Albuquerque Journal article dated Nov 28.
The Albuquerque area smashed its previous Thanksgiving snowfall record of 1.5 inches, set way back in 1934 (solar minimum of cycle 16), when a comparatively mammoth
3.9 inches accumulated by mid-day Thursday at the Albuquerque International Sunport, said Alyssa Clements, meteorologist for the NWS.
By noon, the city had already
easily recorded its snowiest Thanksgiving in history.
Furthermore, the airport
-the city's official climate site- actually had one of the lower snowfall accumulations recorded in Albuquerque, Clements added. The
entire city was in fact blanketed with
6+ inches of snow, with several locations on the West Side recording
7 inches, while the area around Academy and Tramway registered a staggering
8 inches of snowfall by Thanksgiving afternoon.
Clements said much of the state of New Mexico received historic snow totals this week.
Sandia Park received
12 inches, Glorieta over
9 inches, and Santa Fe
8 inches.
Comment: According to the website Current Results (weather and science facts) the average total snowfall in November for Grand Canyon Village is 4.7 inches over 1.9 days - so this latest storm has produced roughly 5 times more snow than would normally be expected in the area for the entire month (and apparently in just a single day).