Drought — Northwest Highlands, New Mexico

2022-11-01 to 2022-11-30 · Northwest Highlands, New Mexico

Event narrative

Moderate to severe drought conditions persisted across the area through November 2022.

Wider weather episode

November 2022 was much drier for most of the state with only a couple snowfall events across the northern high terrain. Very little improvement was made to drought conditions as most areas picked up less than one-quarter inch of precipitation for November. By months end, roughly 18 percent of the state was in severe to extreme drought, of which about 3 percent was extreme drought.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1058794. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.