It took seven years for the state of Durango to register no municipality with any drought-related conditions.
According to the updated Drought Monitor from the National Water Commission (Conagua), as of January 31, the state of Durango had no municipalities experiencing drought or abnormally dry conditions. In other words, all were classified as having normal conditions.
The Monitor’s report indicated that in the second half of January 2026, various meteorological phenomena, such as the arrival of three cold fronts, an atmospheric river, northerly winds, and moisture transported by the polar and subtropical jet streams, caused above-average rainfall in the northwest, north, north-central, and eastern regions of the country.
In Durango, precipitation in the form of snow and rain was even recorded, which finally dissipated the abnormally dry conditions that had occurred in the first half of January 2026 in the municipality of Tamazula, which was the only one in the entire state classified as such.
The last time Durango did not register any municipalities experiencing drought or abnormal dryness was in the first half of December 2018, with all municipalities reporting normal conditions.
However, coincidentally, in the following two weeks, Tamazula became the first municipality to experience abnormally dry conditions, and normal conditions did not return for 84 months.
The improvement in Durango’s conditions during the second half of January contrasted with the lack of moisture in some areas of northern and northeastern Mexico, which led to the persistence of areas with moderate to exceptional drought, specifically in parts of Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas.
As of January 31, 2026, the percentage of areas affected by moderate to exceptional drought nationwide was 6.6 percent, a figure slightly lower than that recorded on January 15 of the same year.
Source: elsiglodetorreon
