Severa 98.6% of Chihuahua territory recorded severe drought

México City.- 98.6 percent of the territory of the state of Chihuahua recorded on April 15 extreme or exceptional drought, the highest grades, the National Meteorological Service (SMN) reported.

The proportion is almost 17 percentage points higher than that of March 15, and almost 25 points higher than that of April 15, 2024.

In its most recent edition, the México drought monitor indicates that 26.1 percent of the surface of the Hydrological-Administrative Region of Rio Bravo, where the portion of Chihuahua most affected by the insufficiency of rain is located, experiences exceptional drought, 5.8 points more than March 15. In the region are the tributaries of the Bravo River of which the water with which the fluid quota that must be delivered to the United States is covered, according to the bilateral treaty of 1944.

Nationally, the proportion of the territory with some degree of drought was 45.8 percent, 3.4 points more than March 15, but 18.8 points less than April 15, 2024.

29.6 percent of the country’s surface registered extreme or exceptional drought in the middle of this month. “The displacement of an anticyclonic circulation in medium levels of the atmosphere and the low water vapor content left without rains and with a hot atmosphere to much of the country, favoring the increase in areas with exceptional drought in the exceptional in the northwest of México,” says the monitor. In addition to Chihuahua, the entities most affected by extreme or exceptional drought are Sonora, with 97.7 percent of their territory with these conditions, and Sinaloa with 80.4 percent.