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Drought Information Statement-Southeast Colorado Benefits from Warm/Wet October
October began with warm and dry conditions with several new daily maximum temperature records set across the area through the first half of the month. However, two moist Pacific weather systems brought some beneficial rain and higher elevation snowfall to areas along the Continental Divide and southeast Plains through the last half of the month, […]
September Rains Help Curtail Drought
Rains moving through the Great Basin system of Colorado in early to mid September brought extreme rainfall and flooding to the state, especially along the Front Range areas. Two to five inches of rain was recorded across the southwest, central and southeast mountains as well as southeast Baca County. The Pike’s Peak region […]
Drought Update: S.E. Colorado Counties Still Hard Hit
Drought Information Statement, NWS in Pueblo While precipitation totals from the past two months have helped the northern and central portions of the state, ranging from 125 to 175% of normal, however the weather pattern did not bring much precipitation to southern portions of Colorado with levels of precipitation at 25 to 50% of […]
Drought Expands, Concerns Mount About Wheat and Rivers
The unusual warm weather in the United States this year is affecting the key farm states in the Midwest the hardest. Drought continued to expand through the central United States even as winter weather sets in, wreaking havoc on the nation’s new wheat crop and on movement of key commodities as major shipping waterways grow […]