Southwest Faces More Storms After Months of Heavy Rain

Residents across the Southwestern United States braced for heavy rain this weekend, the latest in a two-month stretch of soaking storms that have helped ease drought conditions but also overwhelmed rivers and flooded roadways, homes and entire towns. A storm system was poised to unleash even more rain across the region on Saturday and Sunday, particularly over parts of Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. Flood watches from the National Weather Service were in effect.

“We expect another potential round of flash flooding on a lot of the rivers that experienced flooding a week or so ago,” said David Simeral, an associate research climatologist at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nev. Over several days last week, rain led to widespread flash flooding and road washouts across the Navajo Nation, which straddles Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico, an area often referred to as the Four Corners. In Colorado, rain poured over the San Juan Mountains in a storm that Russ Shumacher, the state’s climatologist, wrote this week “should be considered among the most extreme storms in state history.”

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