November 2022 was much drier for most of the state with only a couple snowfall events across the northern high terrain. Very little improvement was made to drought conditions as most areas picked up less than one-quarter inch of precipitation for November.
Every event with a place to put it; 12 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS ABQ wrote it up.
November 2022 was much drier for most of the state with only a couple snowfall events across the northern high terrain. Very little improvement was made to drought conditions as most areas picked up less than one-quarter inch of precipitation for November. By months end, roughly 18 percent of the state was in severe to extreme drought, of which about 3 percent was extreme drought.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Albuquerque, NM wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 31, 10:30 PM MST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED National Weather Service Albuquerque NM 1130 PM MDT Mon Oct 31 2022 ...New AVIATION... .SYNOPSIS... Issued at 249 PM MDT Mon Oct 31 2022 Fair weather is forecast tonight through Wednesday with gradually warming temperatures day to day. A storm system will cross with rain and high terrain snow developing Wednesday night and Thursday. Strong southwest winds will also develop Thursday with wind gusts commonly in the 40 to 50 mph range, except potentially up to 60 mph over the mountains and northeast. The most widespread precipitation will occur Thursday night and Friday when the snow level will fall with the arrival of a cold front. Rain and snow may then linger Friday night and Saturday mainly from the central mountain chain eastward as the storm system gradually exits the area to the northeast. && .SHORT TERM... (This evening through Tuesday night) Issued at 249 PM MDT Mon Oct 31 2022 A weak upper level trough will continue to shift southeastward across the state for the remainder of the afternoon. A few showers have tried to develop across the South Central Mtns but moisture looks to be a little to paltry for them to sustain themselves. That said, could see some gusty winds from the light rain/virga. A quiet night is in store across the state with excellent radiational cooling expected across the north and west. Transient ridging is expected on Tuesday, though ridging will give way to southwest flow by late in the day. Increasing southwest flow combined with a deepening lee side surface trough will allow for breezy conditions in the afternoon. Temperatures will climb a few degrees over today's readings, especially across eastern NM thanks to compressional warming. Otherwise, there will only be increasing high clouds to write home about. These clouds plus some continued breeziness overnight will keep temperatures several degrees warmer Tuesday night compared to tonight's readings. && .LONG TERM... (Wednesday through Sunday) Issued at 249 PM MDT Mon Oct 31 2022 Southwest winds will strengthen over NM on Wednesday as a deep upper level trough digs over the western US. The trough will form a closed upper level low pressure system, which is forecast to track over the forecast area Thursday through Friday morning, then eject northeastward onto the Great Plains Friday afternoon through Saturday morning (depending on the model and model run). Ahead of the upper low's arrival, it will steer the polar jet stream over the forecast area with a strong wind event expected on Thursday as 700 mb wind speeds peak in the 40-55 kt range over the southern and eastern halves of the forecast area. This will probably result in surface wind gusts from 40-50 mph, except for 60 mph gusts over mountain peaks, northeast and potentially east central areas; and lighter winds northwest. There is still some uncertainty about how much cloud cover the system will steer over the forecast area on Thursday, with a risk that too much cloud cover could decrease wind speeds from what is currently forecast. With a sharp lee trough forecast at the surface south of a 994 surface low in eastern CO, the greatest confidence for strong winds will be over the southern tier of mountains, central mountain chain, and northeast. Models depict some dry air being drawn into the upper low as it moves fairly swiftly over the forecast area. Rain and high mountain snow showers will develop Wednesday night and Thursday, then snow levels will probably fall near 5500 feet with the arrival of a strong Pacific cold front Thursday night. After lifting some Friday afternoon, snow levels look to fall near 4000 feet Friday night into Saturday morning as the system is pulling out of the area. A few to several inches of snow accumulation will be possible through the event in the mountains with the greatest accumulations in the northern mountains. A few inches of snow will also be possible at lower elevations of the north, and potentially over northeast or east central areas if a trowal region can set up around the exiting upper low Friday night and Saturday as depicted in some model runs. After another round of breezy conditions Friday, breezy to windy conditions are forecast to redevelop on Saturday in northwest flow aloft as the tail end of the polar jet stream tracks over the forecast area in the wake of the exiting upper low. High temperatures look to bottom out on Friday around 7 to 24 degrees below normal. After a gradual rebound through the weekend, readings should reach near normal to as much as 5 degrees above normal on Monday as southwest flow aloft begins to strengthen again ahead of an approaching upper level trough. && .AVIATION... (06Z TAFS) Issued at 1116 PM MDT Mon Oct 31 2022 VFR conditions prevail and are forecast to persist through the TAF period, except for possible IFR conditions developing at KROW closer to sunrise as moisture advects up the Pecos River Valley. Breezy/gusty S-SW winds are forecast Tuesday afternoon with increasing southwest flow aloft. && .FIRE WEATHER... Issued at 249 PM MDT Mon Oct 31 2022 Quiet weather continues through Tuesday, though a few breezes will be noted in the afternoon. Temperatures will be within a few degrees of normal. Winds will continue to ramp up on Wednesday and more so on Thursday as a storm system approaches the state. On Thursday, southwest winds of 40 to 50 mph are expected, though gusts as high as 60 mph are possible across the high peaks. The system will continue to cross the state through Saturday, bringing much colder temperatures and a mix of rain and snow to the area. Low to moderate accumulations of snow are possible across the northern and western mountains and perhaps some of the lowlands across the northwest as well. On Saturday, the system will be pulling away, but breezy northwest flow will remain. Widespread critical fire weather conditions are not expected for the next week. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Farmington...................... 29 64 39 65 / 0 0 0 0 Dulce........................... 24 61 31 61 / 0 0 5 10 Cuba............................ 28 60 35 60 / 0 0 0 0 Gallup.......................... 23 62 34 60 / 0 0 0 0 El Morro........................ 26 60 33 59 / 0 0 0 0 Grants.......................... 22 64 32 64 / 0 0 0 0 Quemado......................... 27 62 35 62 / 0 0 0 0 Magdalena....................... 35 62 41 62 / 0 0 0 0 Datil........................... 29 61 34 60 / 0 0 0 0 Reserve......................... 30 67 32 65 / 0 0 0 0 Glenwood........................ 38 69 41 68 / 0 0 0 0 Chama........................... 25 55 29 54 / 0 0 5 10 Los Alamos...................... 37 58 38 57 / 0 0 0 0 Pecos........................... 35 59 37 59 / 0 0 0 0 Cerro/Questa.................... 26 56 32 54 / 0 0 0 0 Red River....................... 21 52 29 51 / 0 0 0 0 Angel Fire...................... 17 53 28 52 / 0 0 0 0 Taos............................ 22 60 29 59 / 0 0 0 0 Mora............................ 31 61 36 59 / 0 0 0 0 Espanola........................ 29 66 34 65 / 0 0 0 0 Santa Fe........................ 36 59 38 59 / 0 0 0 0 Santa Fe Airport................ 31 62 35 62 / 0 0 0 0 Albuquerque Foothills........... 39 63 43 65 / 0 0 0 0 Albuquerque Heights............. 40 65 44 67 / 0 0 0 0 Albuquerque Valley.............. 34 66 40 69 / 0 0 0 0 Albuquerque West Mesa........... 36 65 40 67 / 0 0 0 0 Belen........................... 33 68 39 70 / 0 0 0 0 Bernalillo...................... 35 66 39 68 / 0 0 0 0 Bosque Farms.................... 30 68 37 69 / 0 0 0 0 Corrales........................ 35 66 40 69 / 0 0 0 0 Los Lunas....................... 30 68 36 69 / 0 0 0 0 Placitas........................ 36 62 40 63 / 0 0 0 0 Rio Rancho...................... 37 65 41 68 / 0 0 0 0 Socorro......................... 37 69 43 71 / 0 0 0 0 Sandia Park/Cedar Crest......... 36 58 40 57 / 0 0 0 0 Tijeras......................... 36 62 41 61 / 0 0 0 0 Edgewood........................ 33 61 39 62 / 0 0 0 0 Moriarty/Estancia............... 25 64 32 64 / 0 0 0 0 Clines Corners.................. 33 61 37 61 / 0 0 0 0 Mountainair..................... 34 61 41 61 / 0 0 0 0 Gran Quivira.................... 35 62 40 62 / 0 0 0 0 Carrizozo....................... 41 66 44 67 / 5 0 0 0 Ruidoso......................... 35 61 40 60 / 10 0 0 0 Capulin......................... 29 63 35 64 / 0 0 0 0 Raton........................... 26 68 29 68 / 0 0 0 0 Springer........................ 26 70 30 70 / 0 0 0 0 Las Vegas....................... 30 64 37 63 / 0 0 0 0 Clayton......................... 39 69 43 70 / 0 0 0 0 Roy............................. 32 66 39 67 / 0 0 0 0 Conchas......................... 36 74 43 74 / 0 0 0 0 Santa Rosa...................... 37 72 40 71 / 0 0 0 0 Tucumcari....................... 42 73 46 72 / 0 0 0 0 Clovis.......................... 42 70 45 72 / 0 0 0 0 Portales........................ 43 71 46 74 / 0 0 0 0 Fort Sumner..................... 40 71 44 70 / 0 0 0 0 Roswell......................... 43 74 46 78 / 0 0 0 0 Picacho......................... 40 71 43 72 / 5 0 0 0 Elk............................. 38 67 41 69 / 10 0 0 0 && .ABQ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && SHORT TERM...11 LONG TERM....33 AVIATION...11
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
12 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
A small area of severe drought conditions from October 2022 persisted around the Four Corners through November.
Moderate to severe drought conditions persisted across the area through November 2022.
Moderate to severe drought conditions from October 2022 persisted through November.
Severe drought conditions from October 2022 persisted through November over the northern half of the metro area while improving to moderate drought and abnormally dry conditions across the southern half.
Severe drought conditions from October 2022 persisted through November.
Severe to extreme drought conditions from October 2022 improved to moderate to severe drought November.
Severe to extreme drought conditions from October 2022 continued through November. A very small area of exceptional drought between Clayton and Sedan persisted into November.
Severe to extreme drought conditions from October 2022 improved to moderate to severe drought through November.
Severe drought conditions from October 2022 persisted through November.
Severe to extreme drought conditions from October 2022 persisted through November.
Severe to extreme drought conditions from October 2022 persisted through November.
Severe to extreme drought conditions from October 2022 persisted through November.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New Mexico in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, November 2022
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1058792, 1058794, 1058795, 1058796, 1058797, 1058798, 1058799, 1058800, 1058801, 1058802, 1058803, 1058804.