Drought — Southwest Mountains, New Mexico

2024-01-01 to 2024-01-31 · Southwest Mountains, New Mexico

Event narrative

Severe drought remained persistent across a majority of the zone.

Wider weather episode

January saw mostly near normal precipitation across northern and central NM on the whole, resulting in most areas seeing a static state in drought conditions. There were pockets of above normal precipitation focused over the northeastern plains, mainly Colfax and Union Counties, thanks to a blizzard that dumped heavy snow on the region in early January. Areas along the Continental Divide saw near to slightly above normal precipitation in west-central NM which led to a one or two categorical improvement in drought conditions there.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1150945. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.