Freezing Fog — Johnson and Bartlett Mesas Including Raton Pass, New Mexico

2023-02-01 · Johnson and Bartlett Mesas Including Raton Pass, New Mexico

Event narrative

Several power outages were reported within rural Colfax County with 2 inches of icing also being reported.

Wider weather episode

A modified Arctic airmass pushed southward into eastern NM January 31, 2023 and into February 1, 2023. Freezing fog developed behind the cold front, focusing along the New Mexico and Colorado border from Raton to Clayton. While light icing was recorded by the Raton Municipal Airport ASOS, heavier ice accretions were reported by a weather observer over rural areas of Colfax and Union Counties on the morning of February 1, 2023. Power outages in this area resulted from the ice accretion.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1068869. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.