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“We’ve had our really hot summers and that is carrying over into the beginning of fall. And it seems like it’s harder for us, north of the Four Corners region, to get monsoon moisture,” she said. “If you get hot temperatures on top of that, it’s always going to dry out the soil before freezing it. When winter starts very dry, it takes more snow to replenish soil moisture, which leaves less available for stream flows needed by farmers and ecosystems, she added.