June Drought might hit in June County officials give commissioners the bad news By Dani Dodge Jackson County s watermaster expects the county to declare a drought emergency in June or July.
Conditions are that our storage is low.
Our snowpack is extremely low and coming off the mountains early. We re looking at drought-like conditions basically like in 1977. Drought severity has many factors Many factors play into how bad a drought can get. It depends on rainfall, snowpack, water in reservoirs and the saturation from the previous year. The preceding year had been dry, and those arid conditions continued through 1981.