What looked this week like a fresh sign of rising inflation may have sprouted months earlier in the desert around Yuma, Arizona.
Yuma is America’s winter lettuce capital, supplying roughly 90 percent of the leafy greens eaten in the U.S. and Canada between November and March. Last November, the city recorded 1.44 inches of rain, more than six times its normal 0.23 inch for the month, making it Yuma’s eighth-wettest November on record and its wettest since 2008. On Nov. 21 alone, Yuma set a daily rainfall record with 0.96 of an inch.
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