While June 2025 brought at least slightly above normal precipitation to most of the region, it wasn't enough to improve drought conditions for southern New Mexico. Extreme(D3) to Exceptional(D4) drought continued through the month.
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The episode as NWS EPZ wrote it up.
While June 2025 brought at least slightly above normal precipitation to most of the region, it wasn't enough to improve drought conditions for southern New Mexico. Extreme(D3) to Exceptional(D4) drought continued through the month.
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 El Paso, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 31, 10:27 PM MST, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier. Its key messages:
Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service El Paso TX/Santa Teresa NM
1127 PM MDT Sat May 31 2025
...New AVIATION...
.KEY MESSAGES...
- Thunderstorms will be more confined to the higher terrain
areas Saturday and Sunday with isolated activity over the
desert lowlands.
- Drier and warmer conditions expected Tuesday through
Thursday.
- Confidence is increasing that temperatures return to the
triple digits next Friday and into next weekend.
&&
.DISCUSSION...
Issued at 206 PM MDT Sat May 31 2025
Convection is mostly behaving itself today after yesterday's
crushing disappointment for the lowlands. Showers have been
fairly weak, but with good areal coverage over the higher terrain,
and just isolated lightning strikes. There's just an outside
chance of an isolated storm over the Otero Mesa or down in
Hudspeth County through early this evening.
Sunday will be similar to today, with fairly inhibited convection,
mostly confined to the higher elevations of the Sacs/Gila.
However, the upper low still anchored off the northern Baja
Peninsula will finally set sail tomorrow, carrying the mid-level
remnants of T.S. Alvin up into the Sierra Madres. With this
additional moisture, isolated thunderstorms could work their way
into parts of the NM Bootheel before sunset.
The upper low will trek into southwest Arizona tomorrow evening,
and open up as it reaches the Four Corners Monday afternoon. Our
low level moisture feed off the Gulf was already interrupted
today, and we'll see low level winds shift to the southwest
tomorrow. So, we'll have worked-over low level moisture but an
influx of mid and upper level moisture to work with as the trough
sweeps through. The result will be scattered, mostly light rain
showers and embedded thunderstorms working into our area Sunday
night into Monday morning, and decreasing precip chances in the
afternoon. PoPs are relatively high, but QPF is quite low.
A secondary upper low still looks to graze northern New Mexico
Tuesday night into Wednesday, with additional light shower
chances.
The remainder of the week looks to stay mostly dry, with
temperatures steadily ramping up Wednesday onwards. We'll be
flirting with the 100-degree mark at ELP by Thursday or Friday as
the subtropical ridge sprawls out across northern Mexico and south
Texas.
Dryline sloshing will try to pull low level moisture back towards
the Rio Grande Thursday night and Friday night, but with very
limited precip chances as drier air mixes back down each
afternoon.
An upper level trough will try to flatten out the ridge late in
the week, which could bring some breezy southwest winds to the
area Friday afternoon, but right now it doesn't look capable of
causing any dust problems, and should cause our temperatures to
plateau for a bit.
&&
.AVIATION...
(06Z TAFS)
Issued at 1126 PM MDT Sat May 31 2025
Isolated showers continue across the region, but those showers will
be quickly dying off in the next few hours. Winds tonight will be
light from south or southwest. On Sunday we will see some low end
gusty southwest winds in the afternoon for a few hours. For clouds,
tonight we will see our mid and high ceilings slowly dissipate to
give us unlimited ceilings. Then mid and high clouds will again be
on the increase as we head into tomorrow afternoon and evening.
&&
.FIRE WEATHER...
Issued at 206 PM MDT Sat May 31 2025
Spotty showers and thunderstorms will again be mostly confined to
the higher terrain yet again on Sunday. An upper level
disturbance will bring spotty showers and isolated thunderstorms
to a broader area Sunday night into Monday, along with breezy west
winds Monday afternoon. But RH values will remain elevated.
Generally drier and warmer conditions are expected as we head through
the week, but with relatively light winds mitigating fire weather
concerns even as we dry out. An upper level disturbance may graze
northern New Mexico on Friday, which could bring breezy west to
southwest winds back to southern New Mexico, just as RH values
drop into the single digits again in the lowlands.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
El Paso 71 97 72 89 / 10 10 50 40
Sierra Blanca 62 90 65 85 / 20 20 40 40
Las Cruces 64 93 65 85 / 10 10 50 40
Alamogordo 65 95 63 84 / 10 10 40 40
Cloudcroft 50 70 48 62 / 10 50 40 60
Truth or Consequences 66 95 66 84 / 10 20 60 60
Silver City 59 87 56 76 / 10 20 60 60
Deming 65 95 65 86 / 10 20 60 50
Lordsburg 64 91 60 82 / 10 10 60 60
West El Paso Metro 71 94 71 86 / 10 10 60 40
Dell City 64 95 68 88 / 20 10 30 40
Fort Hancock 66 97 70 92 / 20 20 50 40
Loma Linda 66 88 65 80 / 20 10 50 40
Fabens 67 96 70 89 / 10 10 60 40
Santa Teresa 66 92 68 85 / 10 10 60 50
White Sands HQ 71 95 71 85 / 10 10 50 60
Jornada Range 63 94 63 84 / 10 10 50 60
Hatch 64 97 66 87 / 10 10 50 60
Columbus 68 95 68 87 / 10 10 60 40
Orogrande 65 93 66 83 / 20 10 50 40
Mayhill 54 82 54 76 / 20 50 40 60
Mescalero 53 82 53 73 / 10 40 40 60
Timberon 51 80 50 70 / 20 50 40 50
Winston 53 86 52 76 / 20 20 60 60
Hillsboro 61 92 60 83 / 10 20 60 60
Spaceport 61 94 60 85 / 10 10 50 60
Lake Roberts 50 87 50 76 / 10 20 60 70
Hurley 58 89 57 80 / 10 20 60 60
Cliff 59 93 58 82 / 10 20 50 60
Mule Creek 53 88 52 77 / 10 20 60 60
Faywood 61 89 60 79 / 10 20 60 50
Animas 64 90 61 83 / 10 20 70 60
Hachita 63 90 61 83 / 10 20 60 60
Antelope Wells 63 88 61 83 / 10 40 70 60
Cloverdale 61 83 60 77 / 20 30 70 70
&&
.EPZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...None.
NM...None.
&&
FORECASTER...17-HefnerThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
19 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Exceptional(D4) drought continued over the southern half of the zone with Extreme(D3) drought over the northern half. The Cliff Cooperative Observer reported 0.32 inches of precipitation which was 0.32 inches below normal.
Exceptional(D4) drought continued across the entire zone in June.
Exceptional(D4) drought continued across the entire zone in June. The Redrock Cooperative observer reported 0.22 inches of precipitation which was 0.21 inches below normal.
The entire zone remained in Exceptional(D4) drought during the month of June. The Cooperative Observer at Antelope Wells received 1.16 inches of precipitation which was 0.45 inches above normal.
The entire zone remained in Exceptional(D4) drought in June.
Exceptional(D4) drought continued over all but the northeast portion of the zone where Extreme(D3) drought remained. The Deming Airport reported 1.21 inches of precipitation which was 0.66 inches above normal.
Extreme(D3) drought continued across the zone in June. The Hillsboro Cooperative Observer reported 2.01 inches of precipitation which was 1.18 inches above normal.
The entire zone remained in Extreme(D3) drought in June. The Truth or Consequences Airport reported 1.85 inches of precipitation which was 1.44 inches above normal.
Extreme(D3) drought continued across the zone in June.
Extreme(D3) drought continued for most of the zone except the far south where Exceptional(D4) drought remained. The Cooperative Observer at New Mexico State University reported 1.45 inches of precipitation which was 0.80 inches above normal.
Extreme(D3) drought remained across the zone in June. The Mountain Park Cooperative Observer reported 2.54 inches of precipitation which was 1.37 inches above normal.
The entire zone remained in Extreme(D3) drought through the month of June.
The entire zone remained in Extreme(D3) drought in June. The Cooperative Observer in Elk reported 2.75 inches of precipitation which was 1.13 inches above normal.
Extreme(D3) drought continued through the month of June.
The entire zone remained in Exceptional(D4) drought through the month of June. The White Signal Cooperative Observer reported 0.91 inches of precipitation which was 0.33 inches above normal.
Exceptional(D4) drought continued through the month of June across the entire zone.
The entire zone remained in Extreme(D3) drought through the month of June. The Cooperative Observer at White Sands National Park reported 0.87 inches which was 0.15 inches above normal.
Extreme(D3) drought continued across the entire zone in June.
Extreme(D3) drought continued across the entire zone in June.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New Mexico in 2025Every state in 2025This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, June 2025
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: 1272216, 1272218, 1272226, 1272229, 1272233, 1272243, 1272249, 1272251, 1272257, 1272260, 1272264, 1272266, 1272267, 1272307, 1272310, 1272311, 1272312, 1272313, 1272315.