National Weather Service: Dryness defined 2020 in Southwest

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — National Weather Service forecasters say they’re still looking at the records for 2020 but that it’s clear that there was record or near-record dryness in much of the Southwest last year. In Arizona, Flagstaff had only 9.59 inches of rain in 2020, compared with the normal amount of 21.86 inches. Flagstaff’s previous record low of 9.90 inches in 1942. In New Mexico, the weather service office in Albuquerque reported that the statewide average precip