Drought conditions worsen slightly across Colorado
After another warm and mostly dry week, drought conditions have worsened slightly across Colorado.
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Callie Zanandrie grew up in Parker, Colorado. She studied journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder and meteorology at Mississippi State University. Callie's first job out of school was at KBCI in Boise, Idaho. From Boise, Callie traded in her hiking boots for flip-flops and moved to Florida to work for WWSB. However, home was calling and after a year Callie moved back to Denver to work at a competitor. Callie also shifted gears for a time from broadcast news into non-scripted television and worked as a producer at High New Entertainment and Double Act Entertainment.
After another warm and mostly dry week, drought conditions have worsened slightly across Colorado.
Colorado's drought conditions remain mostly steady, with extreme and severe drought levels unchanged across the state.
According to the latest update from the U.S. Drought Monitor, extreme drought held steady at just over 1% statewide.
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There's some encouraging news in this week's U.S. Drought Monitor update: conditions are improving across Colorado, thanks to recent rounds of rainfall. Most notably, the area of extreme drought has decreased by nearly 9%, a significant drop.
According to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor, Western Colorado is still classified in severe to extreme drought. Meaningful moisture is on the way Thursday and Friday, but climatologists say much more is needed to improve conditions.
After a stretch of beneficial rainfall across the state, Colorado is finally seeing some relief.
Wednesday and Thursday bring typical early September heat. Dry air, plenty of sunshine, and increasing winds are combining to create warm and breezy conditions across much of the state.