Recent heavy rainfall and flooding over the past few weeks have provided a silver lining in the drought situation across the state. With the new Drought Monitor Map being released for this week, very positive trends can be seen.
Coming out of the summer, most of the state was under Extreme Drought conditions. Even through the middle of October, several spots across the state were dealing with moderate to extreme conditions.
The new map shows trend in the right direction for southern, central and eastern Utah. All areas have seen improvements, and few isolated spots through northeastern Utah are no longer under drought conditions.
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