Parched land: Drought conditions dominate Pinal region

Parched land: Drought conditions dominate Pinal region

By Rodney Haas | Casa Grande Dispatch

With a lackluster winter for rainfall, the region heads into the monsoon season anywhere between 2 and 21⁄2 inches below normal rainfall this year.

According to Jessica Nolte, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Phoenix office, typically the area sees around 3 inches by this time but portions of the region are barely registering an inch.

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