Tracking a Significant Spring Storm Impacting the Central U.S. This Week

A significant storm will track across the central U.S. and into the Great Lakes through Thursday. Heavy snow and blowing snow is expected from the northern Plains into the Upper Midwest. Further south, severe thunderstorms are expected from the southern Plains into the Midwest as well as a multi-day excessive rain and flooding event Wednesday through Saturday from the Ozarks into the Ohio Valley. 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

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Tracking a Significant Spring Storm Impacting the Central U.S. This Week

Santa Teresa rain/snow records