May 2026 Statewide Rainfall Totals - Wet Week Ahead With Scattered To Numerous T-Storms!
Dissipating Airmass T-Storm.
Looking South From Lakewood, New Mexico.
Looking back at rainfall totals for the month across the state, it's easy to see that most areas received near-normal to above-normal rainfall. The exception for the far Four Corners area.
Selected monthly totals include:
Clayton CoCoRaHS 2.3 ENE 4.02"
Lovington CoCoRaHS 3.0 NNE 3.51"
Caprock Raws 3.09".
Clayton Airport ASOS 2.82". Normal May 1.85"
Artesia CoCoRaHS 3.5 NNE 2.70".
Artesia Airport AWOS 2.56".
Runyan Ranches (SW Chaves Co) 2.52".
Hope NWS Climate COOP Station 2.46".
Lake Arthur COCORaHS 2.5 ESE 2.45".
Artesia NWS Climate COOP Station 2:42". Normal May 1.18".
Hope CoCoRaHS 25.9 SSW 2.29".
Dunken Raws 2.14".
Hagerman NMCC 2.12".
Clovis NWS Climate COOP Station 13 N 1.87". Normal May 1.70".
Elk NWS Climate COOP Station 1.81". Normal May .99".
Alto CoCoRaHS 7.4 W (Ski Apache) 1.80".
Burnt Well NMCC (SW of Roswell) 1.78"
Roswell CoCoRaHS 1.74".
Roswell Industrial Air Center Airport ASOS 1.67". Normal May 1.14".
Timberon CoCoRaHS 0.3 NNW 1.61".
Los Alamos NWS Climate COOP Station 1.44". Normal May 1.17".
Cloudcroft NWS Climate COOP Station 1.37". Normal May 1.22".
Mayhill CoCoRaHS 4.0 SSE 1.27".
Ruidoso NWS Climate COOP Station 1.23". Normal May 1.16".
Carlsbad CoCoRaHS 2.1 NNW Downtown 1.18". Normal May 1.17".
Albuquerque Intl Airport ASOS 1.04". Normal May .44".
Fort Sumner NWS Climate COOP Station 1.01". Normal May 1.07".
Carlsbad Airport ASOS .86". Normal May 1.15".
Mountain Park NWS Climate COOP Station .80". Normal Mal .84".
Alamogordo CoCoRaHS 3.7 NNE .78".
Santa Fe Seaton NWS Climate COOP Station .64". Normal May .88".
Gallup Airport ASOS .66". Normal May .57".
Chama NWS Climate COOP Station .43". Normal May 1.49".
Eagle Nest NWS Climate COOP Station .41". Normal May 1.25".
Las Vegas Airport ASOS .41". Normal May 1.32".
Farmington AG Science Center NWS COOP Station .18". Normal May .60".
Other statewide May 2026 rainfall totals and maps are available via the blog post link if you are reading this on Facebook.
Starting Monday night, we are expected to enter a wet period lasting all next week. Various computer forecast models are spitting out different rainfall totals for the week, but moderate to heavy rainfall looks increasingly likely to occur over many areas.
Seven-day storm totals by next Saturday should generally be in the 1" to 3" range from the central mountains eastward out across the plains. A couple of the long-range models pump out 3" to 5".
With southwest flow aloft and returning low-level Gulf moisture, aided by disturbances aloft zipping overhead, the atmosphere will become unstable and primed to produce scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms next week. Severe thunderstorms will be in the mix from time to time, also. Flash flooding may become a concern especially over and downstream of burn scar areas.
It's too early to know for sure, but it appears that the beginning of our meteorological summer (June 1st) will mark a transition out of the drought (hopefully) into a wet El Niño summer. See the forecast rainfall storm total maps via the blog link if you are reading this on Facebook.
Computer Model 7-Day Rainfall Forecasts.
Weather Prediction Center (WPC).
U.S. Global Forecast System (GFS).
Canadian GDPS.
May 2026.
New Mexico May 2026 Rainfall Totals.
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