Recent rain has improved southern Utah’s drought monitor ranking

U.S. Drought Monitor Class Change - 4 Week. Photo: National Weather Service

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — The National Weather Service (NWS) said the impact of the recent monsoon in southern Utah has been “significant.”

“This has been one of the more substantial monsoon impacts any of us can remember,” the Salt Lake City NWS office wrote.

1/2 We’ve been talking a lot about the North American Monsoon. You can see the impact of the Monsoon on the precipitation in southern Utah is quite significant.

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Check out Capitol Reef NP over the last few weeks on their accumulation graph! #utwx pic.twitter.com/eey7VAuXr3

— NWS Salt Lake City (@NWSSaltLakeCity) August 3, 2021

Capitol Reef National Park had its 2nd wettest July on record, and its 6th wettest month ever (records dating back to 1938).

Under the new rankings, Summit County is still under an “extreme drought.” The biggest winner of the rainfall is southwest Utah, where the entire area saw drought improvement.

Parts of northern Utah actually saw some level of degradation