[Colorado Springs] has received 8.9 inches of snow since flurries began appearing last fall, which is 26.5 inches below average. A few more flurries or raindrops could fall today and Wednesday, but no significant precipitation is forecast for the last few days of the region's snowiest month.

Should no more powder fall in the city this year, it would rank as one of the driest on record. The city's least-snowiest winter came in 1945-46, when a paltry 7.3 inches of snow fell. The winter of 1907-08 ranks second, with 15.7 inches, while the winter of 2001-02 -- which preceded the Hayman fire that burned tens of thousands of acres northwest of Colorado Springs -- is third.

Much of the rest of the state east of the Continental Divide is under similar duress.

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