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Heavy Rainfall in the Southwest and Southeast This Weekend; Monitoring Tropical Cyclone Formation Which Could Impact the Southeast U.S.

Heavy rainfall from monsoon thunderstorms may bring isolated flash and urban flooding to the Desert Southwest. A near-stationary front will bring numerous showers and thunderstorms to much of the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. Tropical wave (AL94) is likely to become a depression. Significant uncertainty remains in the track and intensity, but chances for impacts to the Southeast are increasing. Read More >

All-time heavy rainfall events for Santa Teresa, New Mexico (2-day totals):

1.   4.60 inches    Aug 13-14, 2021
2.   3.94 inches    Jul 31-Aug 1, 2006
3.   3.58 inches    Jul 10-11, 2015
4.   2.80 inches    Jul 11-12, 2010
5.   2.70 inches    Jul 26-27, 2008
6.   2.61 inches    Sep 3-4, 2006

7.   2.47 inches    Sep 12-13, 2013
8.   2.14 inches    Sep 17-18, 2014
9.   2.13 inches    Sep 10-11, 2013
10. 2.05 inches    Jun 28-29, 2010


All-time highest monthly rainfall for Santa Teresa, New Mexico:
 

1.    7.29 inches    Aug 2021
2.    6.82 inches    Jul 2008
3.    5.41 inches    Jul 2015

4.    5.37 inches    Sep 2014
5.    5.09 inches    Aug 2006
6.    4.84 inches    Sep 2013
7.    4.05 inches    Sep 2006
8.    4.00 inches    Jul 2017
9.    3.88 inches    Aug 2008

10.  3.77 inches    Jul 2013

 

All-time lowest monthly rainfall for Santa Teresa, New Mexico

0.00 inches; set on multiple occasions, most recently in:

June 2023

Apr 2023

May 2022

Oct 2021

Apr 2020

Jan 2014

May 2011

Unofficial extreme rainfall rate of rainfall for Santa Teresa, New Mexico
***Santa Teresa does not keep official rainfall rate records, but these are the two
   unofficially heaviest hourly rainfall rain events for events lasting at least one hour.***

1.  0.73 inches per hour;  total 1.45 inches in 2 hours.
2.  0.70 inches per hour;  total 1.74 inches in 2.5 hours.

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All-time heavy snowfall events for Santa Teresa, New Mexico:

1.   10.4 inches    Dec 26-27, 2015
2.   4.4 inches      Feb 14, 2021
3.   4.0 inches      Dec 24, 1999

4.   3.6 inches      Jan 3-4, 2013
5.   3.0 inches      Dec 23-24, 2002
6.   2.9 inches      Dec 25, 1997


All-time monthly snowfall for Santa Teresa, New Mexico:

1.    10.4 inches   Dec 2015
2.    4.4 inches     Feb 2021
3.    4.0 inches     Dec 1999
4.    3.6 inches     Jan 2013
5.    3.4 inches     Dec 2009
T6.  3.0 inches     Dec 1997
T6.  3.0 inches     Dec 2002

 

**Last updated 12/2/24