A welcome mid-March storm left a heavy, wet blanket of snow in the higher elevations of Grand Canyon National Park. The park narrowly missed larger accumulations experienced elsewhere in the region in recent months.
However, overall it has been a reasonably wet winter season that bodes well for the vegetation and wildlife, not to mention the wildfire season which will begin later this spring.
The moisture cached during these soggier months can forestall the tinder-dry conditions typical of May and June, prior to the arrival of the summer rains ushered in by the monsoonal weather pattern.
