| 4/28/2024 | AL-WN-7 | AL | Winston |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
Society & Public Health
| Soil and plant conditions are normal with plants healthy and growing. Pollen/dust activity is elevated (normal for this time of year) due to lack of recent rainfall in the last 3 days. |
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| 4/28/2024 | AK-AB-65 | AK | Anchorage |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
| Anchorage we are currently the middle of spring breakup. |
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| 4/28/2024 | AZ-NV-42 | AZ | Navajo |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
| The week started off warm with high temperatures in the 70's before cooling off later in the week and becoming windy with a storm moving through on Friday night to Saturday morning. High temperatures dropped to the 60's later in the week and then to 51° on Saturday. The high of the week and year, so far, was 76° on Sunday and Monday. The low of the week was 33° on Saturday. Clouds increased on Friday with rain and a thunderstorm in the early evening with even some brief hail. It turned to snow during the overnight hours. A total of .46 inches of rain/melted snow and 1.2 inches of snow fell. All the snow melted Saturday. It was windy later in the week but especially on Friday. A lot of blooms on the crabapples, redbud, and pear seem to have been damaged from an earlier freeze and may not bloom. Harvesting a lot of asparagus and the peas are coming up. Saw swallows in the neighborhood but haven't seen any coming into the yard. Did see a chipmuck in the backyard and the frog comes and suns himself in a pot at the top of the pond daily, half submerged. A lot of robins, blackbirds, and finches in the yard. |
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| 4/28/2024 | AR-CB-12 | AR | Cleburne |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
| The rain has nicely wet the garden. |
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| 4/28/2024 | AR-PL-1 | AR | Polk |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
| We’ve received 0.81” of rainfall this week and 0.73” of that fell this morning. In the past 4 weeks we’ve had 3.54” of rain so conditions are near normal. Soil moisture, water levels, and fire danger are all average and crop growth is as expected for this time of year. |
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| 4/28/2024 | AR-SL-42 | AR | Saline |
Near Normal
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Plants & Wildlife
| Trees are now leafed out and some are in bloom (hawthorns). Wet soil makes it easier for planting perennials and digging out wayward grasses that have reseeded into flowerbeds. |
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| 4/28/2024 | AR-SH-17 | AR | Sharp |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
| We just had a good rain but in general we are dry for this time of year |
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| 4/28/2024 | CA-HM-5 | CA | Humboldt |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
Business & Industry
Plants & Wildlife
Tourism & Recreation
Water Supply & Quality
| A typical April week with 1.01” of rain, ETo 0.25”, and mostly cool and cloudy. Ruth Lake Reservoir 101% on 4/25. Mad River 7.51 ft and 1019.21 cfs/Eel River 12.77 ft and 5674.31 cfs at Scotia. Weeds, grasses and wildflowers all blooming and seeding, and fir trees look to have an abundant crop of cones after almost none last year. California Fish and Wildlife issued a warning reminder on Salmon Poisoning Disease, which can be dangerous or deadly to dogs, when they ingest raw or undercooked salmon (I know having almost lost a dog to it many years ago—a neighbor threw away salmon entrails along our fence line within easy access to my dog). On an interesting side note involving dogs and salmon, in the early 1850s when Indian Agent Redick McKee was negotiating the first treaty with the Hoopa Tribe, members of his party were astounded to find the tribe had dogs that loved to eat salmon and were not affected by it’s danger. Due to student occupation of the administration building at Cal Poly Humboldt, the university has been put on a hard lockdown and closed for the rest of the semester. Student learning and finals will be remote. Dorm students are confined to their rooms but allowed to go to and from the dining halls. Anyone found on campus can be cited for trespassing. All other activities have been cancelled. Whether graduation will happen has not been announced. There is a very large police presence with dozens of out-of-area officers in town. Identified students who participated in the occupation are being suspended pending hearings on their future status. |
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| 4/28/2024 | CA-HM-190 | CA | Humboldt |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
| The conditions don’t affect me other than requiring more protective clothing |
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| 4/28/2024 | CA-MD-42 | CA | Mendocino |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| rainfall about half of normal for April, but we are already at normal for the water year. Puddles are dry but we still have frogs! no need to water yard yet except for potted plants. |
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| 4/28/2024 | CA-MD-45 | CA | Mendocino |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
Tourism & Recreation
Water Supply & Quality
| Just a very small amount of rain since the last report--we are definitely entering the dry season and watering time. Well levels are fine, so there should be no water shortages this year, except for those with old very shallow wells. The strong north winds have returned and will be with us for a number of days. This tends to make the ocean too rough for water sports or fishing. Spring bloomers are starting to reach peak and lots of buds showing on summer bloomers. Starting to hear the calls of summer migrant birds. It's been a lovely Spring so far--we are fortunate here on the coast. |
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| 4/28/2024 | CA-OR-67 | CA | Orange |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| Clear, Cool, Calm |
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| 4/28/2024 | CO-AU-53 | CO | Archuleta |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
| Small puddles on paved surfaces. Dirt road is muddy. |
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| 4/28/2024 | CO-BO-476 | CO | Boulder |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
| The vegetation is greening early, the ground doesn't have cracks in the dirt. The amount of moisture recorded in the newspaper is more than average. |
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| 4/28/2024 | CO-DG-329 | CO | Douglas |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
| Rain/snow event on 4/26 and 4/27 provided great moisture; ground is very wet as of 8am 4/28; trees, shrubs, and ground cover continued their Spring awakening this week; low home-heating usage |
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| 4/28/2024 | CO-EP-408 | CO | El Paso |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
| Rain and snow have the lawn quite wet. Automatic sprinkler system cancelled watering this weekend. Blossoms on apple tree. Shrubs flowering. Lawn getting much greener. |
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| 4/28/2024 | CO-GF-88 | CO | Garfield |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Tourism & Recreation
Water Supply & Quality
| Finally some decent precip over the last 2 days |
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| 4/28/2024 | CO-HF-24 | CO | Huerfano |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
| It was windy mid week but then the weather turned cloudy and cool with some rain. New birds seen were Spotted Towhee, and Green-tailed Towhee. First butterfly seen. The serviceberry is blooming and the lilacs have started to bloom. The oaks and honeylocust are starting to open their buds. |
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| 4/28/2024 | CO-KW-4 | CO | Kiowa |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
| Crops and native vegetation are very moisture stressed and not growing well at all. |
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| 4/28/2024 | CO-LP-131 | CO | La Plata |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
| 0.3 inches of rainfall over the past 2 day. |
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| 4/28/2024 | CO-LR-1272 | CO | Larimer |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
Tourism & Recreation
Water Supply & Quality
| I finally feel good about setting the scale to Near Normal after the almost 2" of SWE we received over the past 3 days. It is melting off fast which means the rivers will be way up and probably not great for fishing, but we are in spring thaw season so no great expectations for fishing quality. Very much needed for flora and fauna as we have been below normals for most of the current Water Year. Snotel sites are registering approximately 100% of normal SWE in my nearby basins (all in Green in the NWCC iMap) in Northern Colorado, less to the south of me. The dump of snow in the high country is great for snowshoe and backcountry skiing but the avalanche danger is increased and is currently set at moderate for all reported elevations (CAIC). |
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| 4/28/2024 | CT-NL-56 | CT | New London |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| Roadside drainages are drying out, garden soil is more crumbly and doesn't ooze water, and it's largely dry underfoot when walking outside. |
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| 4/28/2024 | FL-BW-167 | FL | Broward |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Energy
Plants & Wildlife
| No significant rain during the period.Temps remain seasonal with relatively cool nights moderating more AC use. Landscape irrigation continues. Unirrigated landscapes show water stress with sensitive plants wilting and turning brown. |
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| 4/28/2024 | FL-OR-40 | FL | Orange |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
| Dominant high pressure all week with no end in sight. A slight shower yesterday leaving a trace of rain. Very dry with fire danger on the rise. |
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| 4/28/2024 | GA-CO-3 | GA | Cook |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
| 6" soil temp 70.7 F. /// 6" soil moisture 33 %
Wet lands receding and drying out. |
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| 4/28/2024 | GA-FN-11 | GA | Fannin |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
| The ground is hard and we have had below normal amount of rain for the month. Temperatures are mild during the day and cooler at night. It is more humid than it has been in the past few weeks. Maybe rain is on the way. I am considering supplemental irrigation for my lawn and flower gardens. The birds are seeking out water in the bird baths |
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| 4/28/2024 | GA-MD-5 | GA | McDuffie |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
| All still seems stable. |
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| 4/28/2024 | HI-KI-2 | HI | Kauai |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
Relief, Response & Restrictions
| Showers sparodic mainly during early morning hours ... temps increasing ever-so-slightly ...anticipating hotter weather soon... |
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| 4/28/2024 | ID-BK-27 | ID | Bannock |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
| General: This is about normal moisture for this time of year. The mud season is drawing to a close.
Agriculture: Our normal moisture bodes well for crops. Spring is earlier by a couple of weeks, based on birds returning. Soil moisture is 50% at 3".
Fire: Low risk right now because it is still pretty cool (35 degrees F right now)
Plants/wildlife: We have frogs! That is such a treat, because it's been quite a while since we've heard them. We also saw a terrestrial garter snake (adult size). Magpies are nesting about 2 weeks early relative to prior years.
Water: Our snowpack is pretty much average this year, so we should be in pretty good shape downstream. The Portneuf River is still flooding.
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| 4/28/2024 | IL-AD-16 | IL | Adams |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Business & Industry
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
| Oh boy. Well o mother nature brought it on this week and more coming. So this past week now we are just under 4 inches of rain in three separate rains. Some of it came a bit too much all at once instead of over a long period of time. Top soils are now saturated and plenty of run off. Some day we will probe around to see how easily a 4 ft surveyors rod can be pushed into the ground. Meanwhile though. we are plenty wet and could let it soak in deep. |
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| 4/28/2024 | IL-CP-1 | IL | Champaign |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
| More than an inch and a half of rain this week, with more than an inch the past two days. Much more rain just to the west. Ground is soggy, some standing water in fields. there was some planting this week, but that will be on hold for several days. More rain expected tonight and tomorrow. |
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| 4/28/2024 | IL-KN-67 | IL | Kane |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| Conditions are normal for this time of year. All plants and lawns are in normal spring growth. |
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| 4/28/2024 | IL-MCH-13 | IL | McHenry |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
| Only 0.47 inches of rain this week and 0.03 inches last week makes it feel like Near Normal conditions. But Climatology report on Data Explorer suggests Above Normal so I marked Condition Bar as Mildly Wet:
Month TD: 140% above normal
Water YTD: 128% above normal
YTD: 143% above normal that amounts to 3.97 inches above normal.
Daffodils and tulips were starting to droop tho some of that could have been due to the high winds we experienced Friday-Saturday.
Bluebells and Dutchmen's Breeches peaking, and White Trillium beginning to bloom. Prairie Trillium still in bud.
Japanese Maple beginning to unfurl its showy leaves. |
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| 4/28/2024 | IL-TZ-26 | IL | Tazewell |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
| This week I received 2.39" of rain spread over 3days allowing time to soak in some. My pond is overflowing around 2+" and our creek is also up handling the local runoff. This is very normal for April but I have still moved my condition to Mildly Wet. With a few days left in April My station is 1.2" over our monthly average and more is expected. My lawns are wet, and soft but not overly squishy. Some of the farm fields have limited standing water areas but are not flooded. No field work will be possible for several days. Working in my garden is also not possible. We have had another wood duck hatch this week. |
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| 4/28/2024 | IL-WL-131 | IL | Will |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
| April was drying out, however a wet period for the weekend pushed the April numbers over the monthly average.
April to date is 0.65" over the to date average.
Water Year to date is 3.53" over the to date average. |
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| 4/28/2024 | IL-WF-14 | IL | Woodford |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
| Ground is thoroughly saturated with some ponding in field low spots. Pasture and lawn growing rapidly while trees are well ahead of normal schedule for leafing out. Field work is at a standstill with very little progress yet this spring. Spring ephemerals continue to be early but blooming nicely. |
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| 4/28/2024 | IN-OW-9 | IN | Owen |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| Normal conditions, no adverse affects |
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| 4/28/2024 | IN-PR-3 | IN | Parke |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
| rain over this past week warm temps |
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| 4/28/2024 | IN-RP-4 | IN | Ripley |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
| Not much rain this week. Very green! The grass is growing and most of the trees have either partial or full sized leaves. I saw my first hummingbird on April 25, same as last year. |
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| 4/28/2024 | IA-BC-9 | IA | Buchanan |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
| Rain for the week at this location was 0.33 in. and a couple of traces. May have been a bit more as it was usually breezy along with the rain. Top soil was sticking to the temp probe when checking soil temps this a.m. so there is more moisture in the soil then previous. We dogged a couple of bullets again this week with weather around us. The 120 around us was no till planted this week as was the neighbor to the West. Saw a lot of planting going on in travels. Mowed for the first time this week. Still have a bit to do. Eight hours on the mower for an 81 yr. old is a long day. Trees are finally budding out. Still watching a couple. Grass is doing good at this point. Rhubarb and Asparagus doing well. Flowers as well. Rain most day's or nights in the forecast for the coming week. |
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| 4/28/2024 | IA-TY-2 | IA | Taylor |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
| 1.4 in. of rain last week, we are making progress. Topsoil in good shape, subsoil will need more rain. Grass is growing well, oats are up and growing. Ponds and creeks have filled some, but still well below normal. |
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| 4/28/2024 | IA-WR-5 | IA | Warren |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
| One point four two this past week of rain with a little over an inch on Friday. That would be the most daily rainfall since late June 2023. So far this month, two point three. Temperatures averaged 2.7 degrees above normal. Still holding it at moderately dry until we get some decent rain totals over a couple of days. All the heavy rain is falling south and east of us. Interesting weather day Friday with the tornadoes zooming around on my wife's birthday. Cell phones going off at the restaurant in Des Moines for tornado warning gave people a start. Pays to have a weather app with velocity data. Otherwise, grass has greened up rapidly the past week with nearly all trees have or getting close to leafing out. Fields to my north were planted this past week with large fields to my south to be done yet. Bass are jumping around in the pond. |
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| 4/28/2024 | IA-WB-17 | IA | Webster |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
| Conditions continue to improve as it appears rainfall is on the increase. Temperatures have been on the cool side with some warming this past week. Have had several very windy days the past week. Lawns and pastures very green and growing. Trees are leafing out. Some fruit trees and flowering trees were damaged by freezing temperature the past weeks. Rivers and streams are near normal. Plants is well underway.
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| 4/28/2024 | KS-RO-6 | KS | Rooks |
Severely Dry
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Agriculture
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Relief, Response & Restrictions
Tourism & Recreation
Water Supply & Quality
| Frier than ever in MY memory, farmer dryland cropping with NO irrigation. WE have been in total no til since 1996, adding cover crops seriously over 10 years ago. When I see a tractor and implemnt for tillage with all the blowing dirt, I want to drain the fuel tank on their tractor, adding more dust to be blowing takes real intelligence NOT. |
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| 4/28/2024 | KS-WY-11 | KS | Wyandotte |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
| ground is fully saturated after more then 4 inches of rainfall over the last 3 days. |
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| 4/28/2024 | KY-HD-31 | KY | Hardin |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Energy
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
| Monitoring period 22 - 28 APR ~ Cool dry start for this period. Light frost on the morning of the 22nd. Average temps in the mostly 40’s in the morning, warming up towards the end of the period. Mostly in the high 60’s during the day, climbing into the 80’s at periods end. Measurable precipitation for this period was 0.08”. No furnace used period, turned the AC on yesterday. Crick flowing clear. Rhubarb looking good. Seeds planted in starting pots are sprouting, tomato starts look good. Two raspberry plants sprouted fir the seeds planted last fall. Small ornamental shrubs showing more leaves, iris bulbs in full bloom. Over seeded and put compost on the bare patches in the lawn. All trees are showing leaves. Hearing no frogs, just crickets during the early evening hours. |
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| 4/28/2024 | LA-OR-14 | LA | Orleans Parish |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
| Had one huge rain this month, but little else. Birds are very thirsty. Have to water trees and plants. |
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| 4/28/2024 | ME-HN-58 | ME | Hancock |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
Agriculture
| Drying out - the vernal pond is shrinking, water in the woods only in the usual places. Garden soil is good, drying out on top now. Beginning of appearance of self sowers. I heard several hermit thrushs a few days ago. Osprey are very busy. |
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| 4/28/2024 | ME-WL-8 | ME | Waldo |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
| Just a few spongy spots around. The grass needs cutting but best to wait a few days to avoid the soft spots. |
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| 4/28/2024 | MD-HR-23 | MD | Harford |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
Society & Public Health
Water Supply & Quality
| Temps were above normal to below normal the last 7 days...
Precip this week: 0.03" Rain...only 0.68"last 2 weeks...4.61" Total for April...and with near constant Windy days what rain received is quickly evaporated..Sort of mini drought currently. Fire Warning was issued earlier in the past week...My Allergies are some of the worst the past 2 weeks.
Surface Soils are hard and dry...Mowing caused excessive amounts of dust to become airborne.
Soil Temps were mainly steady & Soil Moisture fell...
**High Centibar Readings mean drier soil...ie; 0 = Saturated Soil..120 or above = Severe Drought.
**Current Soil Readings @ 7am:
Current Surface Soil Temp: 49F...Grass Tip Temp: 48.4F...
2 in. Depth: Soil Temp: 51F...Soil Moisture: 68 Centibars..
6 in. Depth: Soil Temp: 54F...Soil Moisture: 39 Centibars..
24 in. Depth: Soil Temp: 54F...Soil Moisture: 21 Centibars..
36 in. Depth: Soil Temp: 52F...Soil Moisture: 28 Centibars..
Birds were less active at the feeders...3 Bluebird houses have Bluebirds... No Hummingbirds seen yet.
Farm Activity: I prepped my soil this past week as did large Farm behind me...
Creek level and flow are below normal... |
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