July 2020 Brought Some Nice and Welcome Rains

Barbara Crimond | Aug 03, 2020 | Comments 0

While the first six months of 2020 have been lean as far as rainfall is concerned, July has tried to make up for the lack of moisture with a series of showers through the month that swept across southeastern Colorado.

Here are the precipitation results, in inches, for regional counties for the full years between 2016 and 2019, and the first half of the year for 2020, as well as July and the total precipitation report, year-to-date.

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020-6 Mos	July	YTD 2020
Campo 7.8 Miles ESE	20.57	23.46	20.05	12.19	2.71	3.47	6.18
Springfield 0.5 NW	14.43	20.52	15.31	12.47	2.00	1.97	3.97
Walsh 5.4 SSW	14.39	19.89	15.26	12.17	1.62	4.41	6.03
Las Animas 8.1 NE	16.01	18.72	12.65	8.89	3.27	2.53	5.80
Eads 0.45E	15.97	21.27	12.42	16.51	3.49	0.69	4.18
Trinidad 1.9 NE	12.89	25.06	12.87	16.73	5.08	2.39	7.47
La Junta 1.05 N	11.63	23.38	9.93	8.83	2.83	3.95	6.78
Holly 0.1 ENE	14.03	26.00	19.26	16.49	3.71	3.26	6.97
Lamar 2.9 S	16.89	23.09	16.07	12.41	3.94	2.43	6.37

Granada had its fair share of recent moisture. While the entire, 2020 year-to-date was not available through our sources, reports indicate that for the first six months, the community received 3.25 inches of precipitation with 6.45 reported for July for a seven month total of 9.70.

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