Drought — Southwest Chaves County, New Mexico

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

Event narrative

Severe drought conditions persisted across a majority of the zone.

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 1219541. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.