Colorado’s mountains missed out on a lot of the big spring storms that hit the front range this year…
(CO Missing Monsoon So Far :35)
That means the state’s forests are starting to dry out, and faster than the Denver area is drying. But storms from the usual “summer monsoon” are said by scientists to be late this year. That has the people who watch wildfires concerned, that the monsoon might not happen at all in ’23. Wildfire meteorologist Nikolai Reimer (RY-muhr)…
230714 N Reimer- benefits starting to disappear :05 Q:…eaten away…
The last time Colorado’s summer monsoon was a complete no-show, the state had a record-breaking wildfire season that fall. Reimer is a little encouraged, though, saying there are now faint signals that Colorado could start seeing monsoon storms in the next few weeks.