Monsoon season is not expected to bring much relief to the drought-stricken Southwest this year
CNN
Amid a worsening drought across the southwestern United States, residents are hoping for rain from the upcoming monsoon season. But there may not be much luck this year.
"A drier than normal Southwest monsoon season is slightly favored for 2021," Scott Handel, lead meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center (CPC), told CNN. "Confidence in below-normal precipitation is generally higher for eastern areas of the monsoon region," Handel said, which includes New Mexico.President Joe Biden is expected to announce an executive order as early as Tuesday that would effectively shut down the US-Mexico border to asylum-seekers crossing illegally when a daily threshold of crossings is exceeded – a sweeping and controversial proposal that is likely to receive fierce pushback from progressives and immigration advocates.
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