10 days of rain washes drought away in a big swath of eastern Colorado
Ten days of rain on the Front Range and Eastern Plains of Colorado reduced drought conditions in the state by more than 60%, continuing a statewide recovery from drought over the past year. The amount of the state experiencing drought conditions has dropped from 93% a year ago to just 11% today. May is normally the wettest month in eastern Colorado. But a slow-moving storm, more typical of winter, combined with a summery pattern of strong daily heating and moisture streaming up from the Gulf of Mexico have produced an extraordinarily wet period in eastern Colorado.
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