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Little chance of drought relief in the WMV region with the first March storm system

Weather Update Monday, March 2025 In February, the Wet Mountain Valley (WMV) region officially entered the first stage of drought conditions, but that is not unusual for the first two months of the year, as brutally cold temperatures often lack significant moisture in storms that pass through the region. March and April are the snowiest and wettest months of the year, and those big spring snowstorms can bust a drought in a single storm. Last week, meteorologists spotted a low-pressure system that many hoped would bring significant snowfall to most of the Colorado Mountains and Front Range. However, while a thin band of snow may develop south of Denver and in the Central Mountains, it is pretty confident that for Custer and Western Fremont Counties,…