Showers, hail fall across region

Water from the sky, rain, fell on the Clovis area Wednesday night bringing cool, wet relief.

Showers with small pea-sized hail fell in the southern part of Clovis a little after 6 p.m. Wednesday. Heavier rain with lightning and thunder moved across the area from about 9 p.m. until 11 p.m.

A total of .66 of an inch of rain fell at the National Weather Service’s (NWS) weather station at Clovis Regional Airport. The Cannon Air Force Base NWS station received one-one-hundredth of an inch of rain around 11:56 p.m. Wednesday.

While Portales is on the record as receiving one-one-hundredth of an ich of rain Wednesday night, the reading is from the NWS station at Cannon AFB.

“It was moisture coming in from Texas meeting a storm system moving in from the west,” NWS Meteorologist Brian Guyer said, explaining what brought the rain to the Clovis Area.

The “Dry Line,” the weather feature that marks the boundary between dry and moist air in the region, was “right on top of us” according to Guyer.

“The storm system’s origin was in the Pacific. As it moved on east of Clovis it became part of severe weather all the way to Dallas,” Guyer said.

The weather forecast for Sunday calls for a mostly cloudy day with a 70% chance of rain and a high of 67 degrees.

For the rest of the week the NWS is forecasting Monday will be much like the day before, cloudy with a 70% chance of rain and a high of 67.

Rain chances continue into Tuesday with a 50% chance of rain and a high of 74.

Rain chances decrease to 40% Wednesday and 30% Thursday with daytime highs in the upper 70s.