The week's precipitation moved the needle only slightly

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The snow and rain event earlier in the week is obviously great considering how few and far between precipitation events have been this year. This has been especially true since June-July when things really shutoff, but the storm this last week wasn't enough to erase deficits – just moved the needle in spots slightly.

Let's look at the county-by-county precipitation that fell that fell this week. This map will show you highest and mean values of total precipitation and snowfall within each county:

Those totals, over two days, were enough to consider the past one to two weeks as wetter than average for many areas, but not for everyone across the state:

However, the most of any surplus is gone by the monthly timescale.

Or, look at it in a different way of number of days with precipitation, from Weather5280's Becky Bolinger:

Let's take a look at percent of average precipitation for various time steps over the past year:

Last 30 days:

Last 60 days:

Last 90 days:

Last 180 days:

2020:

Since October 1, 2019:

That's a pronounced drought signal that you can see in those images. We updated our PRO subscribers with the latest drought outlook on Thursday.

The outlook remains in this drier than average pattern as we have discussed in our winter outlook and various La Niña related posts.

For the true data nerds, here's a comprehensive list of station precipitation departure summaries. For example, Durando La Plata County Airport is 1.1 inches drier than average over the past 30 days and has been drier than average in all breakdowns we've outlined here – now nearly 8 inches drier than average in 2020!