Worst Drought On Record In New Mexico

I'm disturbed how even powerful storms haven't been enough to make it rain in New Mexico. What will it take? There are several possibilities on the horizon, but if the last storm was such a flop, these others might be too. It's like New Mexico is in a desert, or something:

"When you look at a 24-month period ending last month, it is the driest on record," National Weather Service representative Kerry Jones said.

The 1950s were considered a dry decade, but no two-year period has been as dry as the current one.

...It is also much warmer than it was in the 1950s, and drought has a nasty way of reinforcing itself.

"It's feedback. A positive feedback in terms of you have very dry soil that heats up very intensely over large areas, and that tends to prolong drought," Jones said.

This is the second-driest year since 1870, and the past two years together are the driest.

The odds are the drought will continue in the state.