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:; <br />2001 Ilte past two years have U <br />• yielded precipitation totals <br />.~ of 12.G7 inches (2001) and <br />+a! 11OG inches (2000). Those <br />~ ~ totals are based on water <br />16~~ another _ year=en+dit„gsept ~D. <br />Added [o the light rain <br />~p ~ -. and snowfall are two <br />G year of _ record streaks of 90-de- <br />.y'! gree days. There were a7 0 <br />l~~ 90-degree days in 2000 ~, y /1 <br />and 51 in 2001. o~ OL `~~• <br />~o~~t "What is alarming is that o \i <br />droughts of the past have ~ e~~ ~ <br />been episodic, often tom- 3^ Q <br />ing in multi-years." mN <br />By DAVID PERSONS Doesken said. "I[t the 197Ds y' <br />navmeer-,orts~Y.o~aatloar::om -the last drought period y <br />[f, as meteorologists pre- ~ - we had six of seven m <br />diet, the winter's first sig- years between 1972 and c <br />nificant snowstorm rolls in- {976 with less than 13 inch- e~ <br />to [he area late Sunday and es of predpitalion. It was <br />Monday, it will be too Late ~ kind of ugly. <br />to have any real impact on ~ "I wouldn't be surprised, <br />2001 water levels. ~ based on that, if the have <br />!t wont matter if it snows more drought (years):' <br />two incites or two Ceec - But, Doaken stopped <br />that's becatrse 2001 is of5rial- short of absolutely saying the <br />ly in the books as the second drottgltt will arontinue and <br />mrtsecutive drottp~tt year for that a carious water shortage <br />Notfltem Colorado and the could be on the horizon. <br />Front Range. That's the same posture <br />Area weather experts ~ Northern Colomdo Water <br />point totvartner than normal ~ Conservancy District offi- <br />tempera[ures, lower than ciais are taking <br />nomtal rainfall and lower <br />than normal snotvpack as the See DROUGFII'/Page A2 <br />eases of this year's.drought <br />While the drought has <br />been more inconvenient <br />than bothersome, officials <br />worry the worst might still <br />be ahead <br />"What u really unusual <br />u thaz this is the first time <br />we've had two years in a <br />row with less than )3 inches <br />of precipitation since 1977- <br />78," said assistant state cli- - <br />matologist Nolan Doesken. <br />The average annual pre <br />capitation for For[ Collins <br />and the surrounding area is <br />15.12 inches, Doesken said. <br />-n,..,,.~ ,..,., ,...,., t,.,.,e <br />~au9a3g uyo~ dB0=b0 TO bi3 nou <br />Z•d ZZTS-464-OL6 <br />