Drought — Chaves County Plains, New Mexico

2024-11-01 to 2024-11-30 · Chaves County Plains, New Mexico

Event narrative

Severe drought conditions persisted across the far southern border of the zone around Lake Arthur.

Wider weather episode

Despite a slow-moving strong winter storm impacting the state in the beginning of the month along with some beneficial rain and mountain snow across southern and eastern NM in the middle of the month, severe drought conditions across far southeast Lincoln County and southwest Chaves County persisted.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1219539. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.