5/16/2023 0 Comments Current time clock![]() ![]() The amount in exceptional drought rose to about two-thirds of the state by the start of the summer in 2021 - the worst it got in the past few years. At least 90% of Utah was in extreme drought, including more than half that has been in exceptional drought, the worst status, by the end of March 2021. Extreme drought - the monitor's second-worst category - had consumed more than 80% of the state by the end of the summer.īelow-normal snowpacks during the 20 water years kept the severe drought going. Parts of the state entered extreme drought status in June 2020, according to U.S. The drought became a statewide issue a year later when a culmination of below-normal precipitation and above-average temperatures emerged during Utah’s driest year since at least 1895. ![]() It's a major win for Utah as it slowly rebounds from an ongoing drought that first emerged in southern Utah months after a prolific snow season in 2019. "Widespread improvements were made to the drought depiction, especially in northern California, northern Nevada, southern Idaho and Utah, with scattered changes, mostly improvements, also taking place in other western states," National Drought Mitigation Center climatologist Curtis Riganti wrote in the report, about the ongoing precipitation. The monitor, a joint effort between the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska and federal departments, lists about 64% of the state in either moderate or severe drought, while a little more than a quarter of the state is now listed as "abnormally dry." The amount of land not listed under any form of drought is now up to 7.3%, as storms continue to pummel the West. While drought conditions remain in Utah, no parts of the state are listed in extreme drought for the first time in nearly three years, according to a new report issued by the U.S. ![]()
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