From the National Weather Service Pueblo office:
…IMPROVEMENT IN DROUGHT CONDITIONS CONTINUES ACROSS SOUTHWEST
AND SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO…SYNOPSIS…
NOVEMBER OF 2013 STARTED ON A WARM AND DRY NOTE ACROSS MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO. A CHANGING WEATHER PATTERN THEN BROUGHT COOL AND WET WEATHER THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE MONTH…ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS AND THE SAN LUIS VALLEY. UNFORTUNATELY…MUCH OF THIS BENEFICIAL PRECIPITATION MISSED THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS…PERPETUATING THE DROUGHT…ESPECIALLY ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE LOWER ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY.
WITH THIS IN MIND…THE LATEST US DROUGHT MONITOR NOW INDICATES DROUGHT FREE CONDITIONS ACROSS MOST OF MINERAL COUNTY…AS WELL AS EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN RIO GRANDE COUNTY AND EXTREME NORTHWESTERN CONEJOS COUNTY. DROUGHT FREE CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO BE DEPICTED ACROSS LAKE COUNTY…EASTERN TELLER COUNTY…SOUTHWESTERN THROUGH EXTREME NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY…EASTERN FREMONT COUNTY AND EXTREME NORTHWESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY.
ABNORMALLY DRY (D0) CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO BE INDICATED ACROSS WESTERN FREMONT COUNTY…WESTERN TELLER COUNTY…SOUTH CENTRAL THROUGH NORTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY…NORTHWESTERN PUEBLO COUNTY…CUSTER COUNTY…WESTERN HUERFANO COUNTY AND WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY. ABNORMALLY DRY (D0) CONDITIONS ALSO REMAIN DEPICTED ACROSS CHAFFEE COUNTY…SAGUACHE COUNTY…NORTHERN MINERAL COUNTY…THE REST OF RIO GRANDE AND CONEJOS COUNTIES…AS WELL AS ALAMOSA COUNTY AND COSTILLA COUNTY.
MODERATE DROUGHT (D1) CONDITIONS REMAIN DEPICTED ACROSS MOST OF THE REST OF EL PASO AND PUEBLO COUNTIES…THE REST OF HUERFANO COUNTY…CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY AND MOST OF BACA COUNTY.
SEVERE DROUGHT (D2) CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO BE INDICATED ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY AND EXTREME EASTERN PUEBLO COUNTY…MOST OF THE REST OF LAS ANIMAS COUNTY…NORTHWESTERN BACA
COUNTY…EASTERN BENT COUNTY…PROWERS COUNTY AND EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY.EXTREME DROUGHT (D3) CONDITIONS REMAIN DEPICTED ACROSS MOST OF CROWLEY COUNTY…WESTERN OTERO COUNTY…WESTERN BENT COUNTY…EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL LAS ANIMAS COUNTY…AND WESTERN AND CENTRAL KIOWA
COUNTY.EXCEPTIONAL (D4) DROUGHT CONDITIONS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN CROWLEY COUNTY…EASTERN OTERO COUNTY…SOUTHWESTERN KIOWA COUNTY AND EXTREME WESTERN BENT COUNTY.