Drought in Northwest Highlands, New Mexico

Drought January 1, 2023 – January 31, 2023 · Northwest Highlands, New Mexico

What the National Weather Service wrote

Moderate to severe drought conditions persisted across the area through January 2023.

The wider storm

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 1068378. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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