Drought — Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains, New Mexico

2024-02-01 to 2024-02-29 · Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains, New Mexico

Event narrative

Severe drought conditions persisted across the zone.

Wider weather episode

February saw above normal precipitation on the whole, notably from a series of winter storms that passed over the state during the first half of the month. Late month weaker systems brought additional precipitation mainly to the northern mountains of New Mexico. Overall, the above normal precipitation yielded an overall improvement to drought conditions. Extreme drought was removed from the northwest corner of the state with severe drought being reduced in size as well.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1155115. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.