The featured chart displays the precipitation departures over three trailing time windows. The 30 days departures have recently turned positive for the first time since May, but dry conditions for the past few days have reverted us back toward zero. Deficits are much larger on longer time scales and we are eight inches short of average for the past 365 days. It will be difficult to make up the longer term deficit during the cold months of the year as the total precipitation is much less than the warm months. It will take heavy rainfalls in March and April to give us a chance to have recovered soil moisture prior to the growing season next year.

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