NCDC: Climate of 2004 - July - New Mexico Drought

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Climate of 2004 - July
New Mexico Drought

National Climatic Data Center, 16 August 2004

As noted by the National Weather Service (Charlie Liles), recent rains have been beneficial in the short-term, but significant long-term precipitation deficits remain. The July 21 drought depiction by the New Mexico state drought task force still had a large part of the state in the Emergency/Severe Drought category on both the Meteorological and Hydrological drought status maps.

Statewide Precipitation Ranks
for New Mexico , 2003-2004
Period	Rank
Jul	41^st driest
Jun-Jul	43^rd driest
May-Jul	18^th driest
Apr-Jul	21^st wettest ( 90^th driest)
Mar-Jul	20^th wettest ( 91^st driest)
Feb-Jul	15^th wettest ( 96^th driest)
Jan-Jul	21^st wettest ( 90^th driest)
Dec-Jul	25^th wettest ( 85^th driest)
Nov-Jul	24^th wettest ( 86^th driest)
Oct-Jul	32^nd wettest ( 78^th driest)
Sep-Jul	39^th wettest ( 71^st driest)
Aug-Jul	54^th wettest ( 55^th driest)

Click here for graphic showing precipitation departures, January 1998 - present

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Click here for graphic showing Palmer Z Index, January 1998 - present

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Click here for graphic showing precipitation, July 1895-2004

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Click here for graphic showing Palmer Hydrological Drought Index, January 1900 - July 2004

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