Winter is the least important season in Colorado for drought relief. Author: Cory Reppenhagen Updated: 10:56 AM MST January 8, 2021
COLORADO, USA Have you made the mistake of posting on social media that you actually like the dry winter that we are having in Colorado?
You probably got a good public lashing from your peers, something about how you don t care about wildfire danger, the water supply or maybe even a weaker argument about how brown our lawns are going to be this year.
Well, you shouldn t feel bad for liking a dry winter in Colorado, especially on the Front Range. Winter precipitation doesn t really matter too much to those factors, and the weather data backs it up.
Billion-Dollar Disasters: The Costs, in Lives and Dollars, Have Never Been So High
Fueled by climate change, extreme weather set records this year, causing close to $50 billion and the loss of at least 188 lives by early October.
December 29, 2020
San Miguel County Firefighters battle a brush fire along Japatul Road during the Valley Fire in Jamul, California on Sept. 6, 2020 Credit: Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images
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Update: The final tally, released on Jan. 8, showed that last year blew away previous annual records for extreme weather events in the United States, with 22 billion-dollar disasters that piled up $95 billion in damages and claimed 262 lives, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information.