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Drought in Southwest Chaves County, New Mexico
Drought August 1, 2024 – August 31, 2024 · Southwest Chaves County, New Mexico
What the National Weather Service wrote
Extreme drought was trimmed back to the far southwest portion of the zone with the rest of the zone now under severe drought.
The wider storm
The continuation of an active 2024 monsoon season resulted in further slight improvements in drought conditions across the state. However, localized areas of severe drought remained across north central New Mexico and the northern Albuquerque Metro along with severe to locally extreme drought in southern Lincoln and Chaves County.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1200608. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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