| 5/31/2026 | CT-NL-19 | CT | New London |
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| 1.34" of rain this week has helped plants immensely, though their blooms are laatr than last year. As usual the weekend was cold and rainy, spoiling many Memorial Day picnics and parades. Temps are unusually cold -- 49+-F at night, 50s and 60s daytime. March has returned with a vengeance - displeasing both locals and tourists. Many bunnies cavorting and birds are gathering nesting materials. |
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| 5/31/2026 | CT-NL-56 | CT | New London |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| while somewhat under for the year to date, currently we’re good at ground level… soil is good, transplants need only normal amounts of water to set them into their new home. |
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| 5/31/2026 | GA-FL-23 | GA | Floyd |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
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| Rain several days in a row. |
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| 5/31/2026 | IL-AD-16 | IL | Adams |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| ZILCH, Zero precip this past week. Beginning to warm up some too. Buffalo gnats are getting rather annoying as well. |
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| 5/31/2026 | IL-KD-126 | IL | Kendall |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
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| Very Dry, soil around the yard is showing cracks a quarter inch wide. Our Ash tree I've been saving from the Emerald Ash bore bore was showing signs of stress. Watered it for two hours with lawn sprinkler, it is starting to look much better now. |
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| 5/31/2026 | IN-BR-6 | IN | Brown |
Mildly Wet
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Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Field and garden work remains limited in some places, but plants are lush and growing well. |
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| 5/31/2026 | IN-PR-3 | IN | Parke |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| rain over past week temps near normal or slightly above |
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| 5/31/2026 | IA-TY-2 | IA | Taylor |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| Ground water slowly catching up. Most ponds and creeks are back to normal. There is now some ponding in low lying areas, non tiled sidehill seeps are starting up. With warmer temperatures corn and beans are up and growing. Pastures are doing well. Has not been good haying weather. |
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| 5/31/2026 | IA-WB-17 | IA | Webster |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| About 0.5in rain this week with May’s rain being about 50% of average. Everything is green and growing. River and lake levels are near average levels.
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| 5/31/2026 | KS-DG-84 | KS | Douglas |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
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| recent rains; some standing water |
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| 5/31/2026 | KS-KW-2 | KS | Kiowa |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| .51 inches of rain this week brings us to 1.44 inches for the month of May in 13 rains. The wheat is almost ready to harvest and doesn't look good. The grass and alfalfa are struggling to stay green and growing very slowly. The spring flow is diminishing every day and the water level in the ponds is dropping. |
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| 5/31/2026 | KY-GY-9 | KY | Grayson |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| 2.2” rain this week. Early in the week while it's raining the creeks were brown-water rapids, the seeps were fountains. They are back to normal flows. The rock shelf in our upper pond is submerged again; the water is coming up but still low. Areas that were puddles on Wednesday were just moist on Thursday. The earth is thirsty, but trees, grass, corn and beans doing well. Daylilies and yuccas blooming, magnolias done. Pears and apples developing nicely. Bright orange Butterfly Weed is blooming and loaded with butterflies. Deer, turkeys, & quail visiting (still no young), hummingbirds depleting the feeders at at rapid rate. |
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| 5/31/2026 | KY-HR-10 | KY | Harrison |
Near Normal
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Plants & Wildlife
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| South Fork Licking River at Cynthiana flow is above normal at 723 ft3/sec. Mowed the back pasture for the second time this year. Growth was spotty. Mowed lawn this week also. Trees looking good. |
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| 5/31/2026 | ME-WL-8 | ME | Waldo |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| I find the soil in the garden a little on the dry side but is not a big concern yet. I am more concerned about the nearly 12 inch deficit in ground water |
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| 5/31/2026 | MD-AA-99 | MD | Anne Arundel |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| The ground is beginning to dry again after almost a week of rain over Memorial Day .. Grass is beginning to turn |
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| 5/31/2026 | MA-BA-57 | MA | Barnstable |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| 1.29” in the preceding week. That, coupled with this morning’s catch of 0.35”, pushes the May total to 3.60”, which is 102% of PRISM average. We’re at 97% of average Calendar YTD and 103% of average Water YTD, so things are – thankfully – currently in the zone. The only weather grumble is that recent cool temperatures have REALLY slowed germination of some of the veggie seeds. Most local flowering trees have gone by, but rhododendrons and azeleas are at their peak and early perennials are showing well. Pond level is normal; the only notable wildlife comment is that the clutch of nine cygnets is now down to eight. I’m surprised we haven’t lost more. |
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| 5/31/2026 | MA-HD-38 | MA | Hampden |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation
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| Weather on my patch has retuned to normal temperatures with cool nights, several dry days and then frontal passage rain to alleviate dryness. Outdoor plants healthy. I row on the Connecticut River 3-4 times a week, and just as the level starts dropping, we get significant rain upstream, so nice healthy river still, the Shad are swimming upstream! |
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| 5/31/2026 | MA-PL-48 | MA | Plymouth |
Mildly Dry
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| The total of 2.84" of rain for the month of May is 79% of PRISM normal. The past week had measurable precipitation on 5 of the 7 days for a total of 1.47". That was much needed. Local drainage ditches are dry and quickly absorbed the water. Although we definitely need more rain, things still look green and healthy. |
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| 5/31/2026 | MI-BN-28 | MI | Berrien |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation
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| This week ended mildly dry; however, the week began with a transition from an exhausting spring pattern of unstable and often wet conditions with wide temperature swings to a week of sustained sunny and warm days with cool and humid nights. The weekly rain accumulation of 0.49 inches fell the day before the week began. Surface soils are now somewhat dry and lawns, while still green and growing, are not requiring mowing as frequently as just a few weeks ago. Grape vineyards are finally leafing out. The very first row crops are just barely breaking the soil but most fields are still bare. The first few farm stands are just now appearing roadside with limited local produce such as asparagus and flowers. Agriculture and outdoor recreation are very active. Local high school graduations are occurring outdoors. Although it’s beginning to feel a bit summer-like, Lake Michigan remains bitterly cold. |
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| 5/31/2026 | MI-OD-4 | MI | Oscoda |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| Sandy soil conditions. 0.33" precip from May 25 to May 31. Elevated Fire Conditions over the last few days. Fire Danger remains Very High. |
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| 5/31/2026 | MN-IT-57 | MN | Itasca |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| We are watering plants and gardens regularly to keep them from drying out. The ground is hard and dry. |
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| 5/31/2026 | MN-OL-18 | MN | Olmsted |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Business & Industry Energy Fire Plants & Wildlife Relief, Response & Restrictions Society & Public Health Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| ~0.16" of rain was recorded this past week. Today's report= 54°, 75% humidity, overcast with an air quality index of 10 at the 6:00 a.m. observation time. NWS "Weather Story"= https://tinyurl.com/5asan4m3 USA Drought Monitor Map= https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ Minnesota Weathertalk= https://tinyurl.com/bdhatu53 Douglas Weatherblog= https://tinyurl.com/3v9vr5ke Wildfire/Smoke Map= https://tinyurl.com/4j9khhan YTD precipitation in this area= 11.73" which is 3.24" less than average. |
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| 5/31/2026 | NM-SR-46 | NM | Sierra |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| No measurable rain this week, no change in conditions since last report: creek dry, few wildflowers, bird activity normal for the season. |
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| 5/31/2026 | NY-WN-18 | NY | Wayne |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| The center of the yard has dried considerably, and the sump activates once every hour or so. The birds are busy making nests, flowers are flourishing and the hanging strawberry plant has produced two strawberries so far. |
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| 5/31/2026 | NY-WC-32 | NY | Westchester |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
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| Cool temperatures and daily showers. |
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| 5/31/2026 | NY-WY-11 | NY | Wyoming |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Mostly cloudy, becoming sunny and warm with moderate winds, then clear and cool overnight with light winds. The high temperature was around sixty degrees, and the low around forty degrees Fahrenheit. Songbirds are eating a half feederful every day. White Ash tree leaves, Jewelweed leaves, Johnny-Jump-Up flowers, wild strawberry flowers, Soapwort flowers, phlox flowers and Bush Honeysuckle flowers are appearing. The first cutting of hay is happening. Corn is 2" - 3" tall. The local intermittent stream and nearby trout stream are flowing at late spring levels. |
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| 5/31/2026 | NC-BC-150 | NC | Buncombe |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| 3.99 inches of rain this week! Butterfly weed is blooming. Pileated woodpecker keeps attacking car windows and landing on house window trim. |
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| 5/31/2026 | NC-HK-14 | NC | Hoke |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| We got some rain but it did little to help with the lack of rain from weeks before, the grass greened up but is already showing signs of stress. The rain helped the farmers with planting, but slowed the harvesting of the wheat. |
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| 5/31/2026 | OH-PB-1 | OH | Preble |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
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| Streams are above normal for this time of year from recent rains. Yards are green. Some fields have ponding of water particularly in low lying areas Precipitation is a above normal for the month to date. ET balance for the month is + 4.32”
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| 5/31/2026 | OH-UN-4 | OH | Union |
Mildly Wet
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Agriculture
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| Flooded earlier this week, and also last weekend. We have had 7.7 inches of rain this month, seems most fell in the last two weeks. Some neighbors have yet to plant much, I will have to replant part of what I planted on the 15th of the month. |
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| 5/31/2026 | PA-BT-15 | PA | Butler |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Business & Industry Energy Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation
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| This past week’s precipitation was 0.67”. Average soil temperature is 65F. The topsoil is slightly moist. Lack of rainfall and dry air is starting to dry out the topsoil. Very low dew points have been letting the air temperatures get into the 30’s last couple of nights. Field corn has sprouted this past week. Lawns are in good shape. Garden was planted this past week. |
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| 5/31/2026 | SC-GV-166 | SC | Greenville |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| The garden is doing well. The lawns in the area are greening up. The storm water retention ponds are back to normal levels and the frog population is recovering. |
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| 5/31/2026 | SC-YR-103 | SC | York |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Energy Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Despite 1.51” of rain this past week, and a total of 3.64” over the last two weeks, York County, South Carolina remains in a “Moderately Dry” condition. All of that rain has dropped the U.S. Drought Monitor’s Intensity designation to D2-Severe Drought. Locally, any trees, plants, et. al show no sign of stress, especially with the amount of rain of late. Despite the much needed and abundant rain, the ground absorbed it rapidly with little runoff. I mowed my “jungle of a yard” after several days of steady rain and was surprised by the lack of clumping in the mower deck that usually occurs with wet grass. Local lakes are ~2 to 4 feet below normal, and have shown a slow but steady rise in the past week. Through Friday, month-to-date rainfall is 3.06” above normal, while year-to-date rainfall is 3.70” below normal. Compared to last year, rainfall is down 3.43”. |
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| 5/31/2026 | TN-BT-39 | TN | Blount |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
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| Yesterdays rainfall , Saturday, May30, 2026 early morning was exceptionally heavy, intense rainfall that dumped massive volumes of water in a short period, 3.62 inches!! There were reports of a road being washed out. |
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| 5/31/2026 | TN-MC-16 | TN | Macon |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| We received .29 inches of rain this week over five days. Our three rainfall totals remain well within normal range. Creeks, streams and ponds are normal. Too wet for field work this week but all crops look good except for low spots. Orchard, berries and gardens look good but gardens beginning to need plowing. Picked broccoli, first green beans, and raspberries this week. Grass is growing. Livestock, wildlife and timber look good. Nothing stressed from a lack of moisture in our area. Hope everyone catches up on rain totals. We are blessed.
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| 5/31/2026 | VT-FR-21 | VT | Franklin |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| More rain than expected this week |
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| 5/31/2026 | VT-WH-29 | VT | Windham |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| A wet week with decreasing temps. Rain on 4 days totaling 1.54". The first month in a while with above normal rainfall. 4.57" compared to the May average of 3.64". Not that I keep temp records but what a crazy month. A little over a week ago there were 2 days in the 90's, and this morning the last day of May it was down near 60° in the house, and I just turned the heat pump on. But no snow here. Garden is mostly planted but waiting on the winter and summer squash to germinate. Bird observation in my yard tells me there are less Robins and more Cardinals in my neighborhood. Wonder if some Robins didn't make it thru last winter. |
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| 5/31/2026 | VA-GC-23 | VA | Gloucester |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| we finally got a good amount of rain this week but it came down in buckets. we needed it but a lot just ran off and did not penetrate the soil. |
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| 5/31/2026 | WI-SR-15 | WI | Sawyer |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Fire Tourism & Recreation
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| Lakes and rivers are low; fire danger is moderate even with the greenery out; trails are open and dusty |
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| 5/31/2026 | CAN-NS-182 | CAN | Nova Scotia |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Relief, Response & Restrictions Tourism & Recreation
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| For week of 24-30 May: (0+ 0+ 23.5+ 0+ 0.5+ 0.2+ 0)=24.2mm. Near Normal. High's: +9C to +23C; Low's: +12C to +1C; Wind: Calm to V, gusts to 35km/hr. We had 2 days of warm, sunny weather, +20C and +23C. Then the clouds moved in for overcast for 5 days and counting. Its been cool to chilly. Mon was a wet day with mist, heavy drizzle and light rain all day. The next day, the Dandelions all went to fluff. And, there has been exponential pollen. The garden hose has been busy--you can't sweep it, it just keeps coming. Not even looking at the veg trugs until it warms up. Grass is growing rapidly. Trees are leafing out. No wildlife spotted this week. We are in the Green for NS Burn Ban Map (only S 1/4, South Shore is Yellow). Even under grey skies, the Tourism buses have resumed. NS Power has announced on-going Overhead work on Peggy's Cove Rd, Tantallon to East Dover, for all of 2026, possibly into 2027. Prepare for traffic delays. All we need now is a bit of sunshine. |
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