Drought — Eastern Lincoln County, New Mexico

2024-11-01 to 2024-11-30 · Eastern Lincoln County, New Mexico

Event narrative

Severe drought conditions persisted in the southern portion of the zone, mainly south of U.S. Highway 70.

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 1219540. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.