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Drought in West Central Plateau, New Mexico
Drought November 1, 2025 – November 30, 2025 · West Central Plateau, New Mexico
What the National Weather Service wrote
Extreme drought was removed from a vast majority of the zone.
The wider storm
November saw a mixed bag of above normal and below normal precipitation across the state, heavily defined by one notable winter system late in the month. With November's climatological precipitation amounts already fairly low, it didn't take much for that one storm to bring above normal precipitation to a southwest to northeast swath across the state leaving the northwest and southeast corners with below normal precipitation. Modest one category improvements were observed over portions of west-central NM alongside some one category degradations for parts of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and southeastern plains. Most of the state saw little to no change in their drought status.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1296457. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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