Drought in Northwest Plateau, New Mexico

Drought December 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022 · Northwest Plateau, New Mexico

What the National Weather Service wrote

A small area of severe drought conditions from October 2022 persisted around the Four Corners through December.

The wider storm

December 2022 was wetter than normal across a good portion of western NM, whereas drier than normal to record low precipitation was observed across a large swath of the eastern plains. Very little change in drought conditions resulted from this. 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 1062760. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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