Utah's wet August reversed trends from the first two-thirds of summer, and helped reduce the state's drought conditions and wildfire risks.
"We just had the persistent typical monsoonal pattern, which allows abnormally moist air mass to continue to stream into the area, accompanied by instability from passing ," she told KSL.com.
Increased moisture also bumped the state's meteorological summer precipitation collection up to 0.36 inches above normal, making it Utah's 44th wettest summer on record. This trend played out across many communities in the state, too. listed about half of Utah as being at least "abnormally dry," including 16.5% experiencing moderate drought at the start of August. Only about a quarter of the state remains "abnormally dry" and the percentage of the state in moderate drought dropped to 8.3% in its first report after August.