Despite recent storms, no change was made to the intensity of drought in California or Nevada over the past week, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor released November 25.
The cutoff for the report each week is 7 a.m. Tuesday, so it does not include rain and snow that fell Tuesday in California and Nevada.
“Half an inch to an inch of precipitation fell across eastern and northern parts of Colorado, with a few tenths in northern Utah and northeast New Mexico,” the weekly update noted. “But other than that, most of the Southwest received no precipitation this week.”
Abnormally dry conditions were reduced in northeast Colorado, “but no change was made to the drought depiction in the rest of the [California and Great Basin] region.”
California remains 97 percent in moderate drought, 92 percent in severe, 70 percent in extreme drought and nearly 45 percent is in exceptional drought
