Drought — Northwest Plateau, New Mexico

2023-01-01 to 2023-01-31 · Northwest Plateau, New Mexico

Event narrative

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

Wider weather episode

January 2023 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_id 1068377. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.