Precipitation is generally scarce apart from monsoonal storms. The wettest month on record has been July 2010 with , but totals above are confined to the monsoon season apart from an anomaly in December 1991 when three major subtropical cyclones brought . 1991 was also the wettest full calendar year with . Snowfall is rare, with a median of zero and mean of ; the heaviest snow recorded in Truth or Consequences is the that fell during the record cold spell of Christmas 1987.