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El Niño has brought flooding. It's also slowly lifting Utah out of drought

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El Niño has brought flooding. It's also slowly lifting Utah out of drought
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A large chunk of Utah is now out of drought as an onslaught of rain, tied to an El Niño oceanic pattern, continued to pepper the state over the past week. Approximately two-thirds of Utah is still in some form of drought, the U.S. Drought Monitor reported Thursday, down from over 90% last week.

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