Bitterly cold temperatures continue to hang around eastern New Mexico. Warmer weather will finally return by this weekend with spring-like temperatures next week. It was a record cold start to the day across eastern parts of New Mexico.

A cold weather advisory is in effect for parts of New Mexico as temperatures are going to get quite chilly out there.

Arctic cold temperatures as low as around zero degrees with dangerous wind chills occasionally below -10 degrees moved into East New Mexico earlier with mostly below-freezing air temperatures across the entire region as despite light snow with patchy freezing fog in the far-Northeast Highlands,