CYS 20210319 <![CDATA[ National Weather Service Cheyenne WY 400 AM MST Sun Mar 7 2021 ...Cold temperatures and widespread precipitation improved the severe and extreme drought conditions for some areas... .SYNOPSIS... An anonomously cold airmass with its origin over northern Canada plunged south into the region on February 10 and lingered into the third week. There were several days with record low high temperatures in the single digits above and below zero. Record minimum temperatures were recorded at several locations. Sidney, Nebraska established its all-time coldest minimum temperature for February 14 and the month with -31 degrees. The Arctic cold was accompanied by a series of low pressure systems. One slow moving system produced moderate to heavy snow February 12-14. Scottsbluff, Nebraska set a record 24-hour snowfall of 9.2 inches on February 14, and 15.4 inches over a three-day period...]]> <![CDATA[READ MORE ABOUT THIS NWS DROUGHT STATEMENT AT: https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=HUN&issuedby=CYS&product=DGT]]> SLC 20210319 <![CDATA[ National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT 1200 PM MST Mon Mar 8 2021 ...WIDESPREAD EXTREME TO EXCEPTIONAL DROUGHT CONTINUES .SYNOPSIS: .Drought intensity and extent: According to the March 2, 2021 release of the United States Drought Monitor, 86% of the National Weather Service Weather (NWS) Forecast Office Salt Lake City, UT (WFO SLC) County Warning Area (CWA) is experiencing extreme (D3) to exceptional (D4) drought conditions. Exceptional drought (D4) conditions continue through much of the CWA aside from the far north and the higher terrain of northern and central Utah where extreme drought (D3) conditions are being reported. The remainder of far northern Utah and Uinta County, Wyoming are experiencing moderate (D1) to severe (D2) drought. To see county specific drought information, visit https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/data/png/current/current_wfoslc_trd.pn g?1614901429512 .Precipitation: A long term precipitation deficit continues across the region. Since the water year began October 1, 2020, much of the SLC CWA has received between 25 and 50 percent of normal precipitation, including most valley locations and the Uinta and southern Utah mountains...]]> <![CDATA[READ MORE ABOUT THIS NWS DROUGHT STATEMENT AT: https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=HUN&issuedby=SLC&product=DGT]]> UNR 20210319 <![CDATA[ NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RAPID CITY SD 1050 AM MDT THU MAR 18 2021 ...RECENT SNOWFALL HELPS TO IMPROVE DROUGHT CONDITIONS... .SYNOPSIS: .Drought Intensity and Extent: According to the March 18 release of the U.S. Drought Monitor, Severe (D2) Drought covered almost all of Northeast Wyoming and Northwestern South Dakota, including most of Campbell, Crook, Weston, Harding, Perkins, Butte, Lawrence, Meade, Ziebach, northern and northern Haakon Counties. Areas of southwestern South Dakota improved to D1 or Moderate Drought, including southern Pennington, Custer, Fall River, Oglala Lakota, western Jackson and southern Haakon Counties. Conditions across south central South Dakota improved to D0 or abnormally dry including Bennett, Mellette, Todd, and Tripp Counties. .Precipitation: Precipitation so far this water year, since October 1, 2020, has been below average...]]> <![CDATA[READ MORE ABOUT THIS NWS DROUGHT STATEMENT AT: https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=HUN&issuedby=UNR&product=DGT]]> BYZ 20210319 <![CDATA[NO DROUGHT STATEMENT AVAILABLE FOR THIS AREA.]]> <![CDATA[WHEN AVAILABLE, NWS DROUGHT STATEMENT CAN BE FOUND AT: https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=HUN&issuedby=BYZ&product=DGT]]> RIW 20210319 <![CDATA[ National Weather Service Riverton WY 408 PM MDT THU FEB 18 2021 ...EXTREME DROUGHT CONDITIONS PERSIST ACROSS CENTRAL WYOMING... .SYNOPSIS: .Drought Intensity and Extent: According to the latest update of the U.S. Drought Monitor on February 16th, Extreme (D3) Drought conditions persisted across almost all of Natrona, Johnson and Washakie counties as well as southeast Big Horn, the eastern half of Hot Springs, north central and eastern Fremont and extreme eastern Sweetwater counties. Severe (D2) Drought conditions continued across southern Big Horn, the western half of Hot Springs, southeast Park, central and southern Fremont, eastern Sublette, and the eastern half of Sweetwater counties. Moderate (D1) Drought conditions have remained across the rest of Big Horn, Hot Springs, Lincoln, Sublette and Sweetwater counties, as well as western Fremont county. Abnormally Dry (D0) conditions continued across western and extreme northern Teton, western Park, extreme western Fremont, and the extreme northern parts of Sublette and Lincoln counties. .Precipitation: January retained the overall long term dry pattern across much of the region, though a few weak cold fronts did slide across the Cowboy State during the month. Unlike the previous months, these winter storms were more evenly spread across the month, but still produced below normal precipitation totals for much of the area. The driest areas during January were observed across the Bighorn Basin and southern Fremont and Sublette counties which received less than 30 percent of normal precipitation...]]> <![CDATA[READ MORE ABOUT THIS NWS DROUGHT STATEMENT AT: https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=HUN&issuedby=RIW&product=DGT]]>