| 7/6/2026 | CO-AU-49 | CO | Archuleta |
Moderately Dry
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| risk of wildfire, risk of hayfield loss, risk of forage loss for livestock and wildlife, water restrictions |
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| 7/6/2026 | CO-CR-18 | CO | Crowley |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Business & Industry Fire Plants & Wildlife Relief, Response & Restrictions Society & Public Health
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| Hot and dry. Daily winds create dust storms. Pastures starting to turn back after the one good rain received. Yard plants struggling even with daily watering. Blackbirds and magpies have pretty well ran off all other birds. Cottontails in the yard which is not normal. Smoke haze comes and goes. Directly overhead one night. Fire ban. Supplemental feeding. Sale barns sales up with producers selling off higher numbers than normal for this time of year. Our local fairgrounds have been opened up for fire evacuees. Not in use as of this time. |
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| 7/6/2026 | CO-DL-54 | CO | Delta |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Energy Fire Plants & Wildlife Relief, Response & Restrictions Society & Public Health Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| No of rain last week. No moisture registers on my 6" garden soil moisture meter. Weeds are brown and dry. Juniper and Piñon trees are stressed, showing some brown in them. Cold season grass is dormant. Plenty of deer in the area. They seem to prefer our sumac (which we water occasionally) to our grass for grazing. More Red Flag days than not. Thick smoke here several days from fires near the Colorado-Utah border, near Ouray, various locations in Utah. Air quality alerts in effect most the week. Kept our windows closed most days, limited our outdoor time, made more use of our heat pump to cool the house. |
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| 7/6/2026 | CO-EL-96 | CO | Elbert |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| It continues to be very hot and dry. We had almost an inch of rain out of an isolated thunderstorm, but that was jus over a week ago. Any benefit from the moisture is gone. In the natural grassland areas, only the weeds seem to be hanging in there. Soil is hard and dry. Pine trees are stressed and experiencing a "mast" season, as it relates to production of pine cones. We've never seen so many dropping. The town we live in continues to have watering restrictions and we are in a stage two fire ban. This means there were no fireworks or barbecue s for July 4th. Flowers around our home are surviving only because of light hand watering. We installed a couple rain barrels to capture rain coming off the roof. Those have been helpful, but when they are empty with no rain in the forecast, the captured precipitation disappears quickly. |
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| 7/6/2026 | CO-GF-97 | CO | Garfield |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Energy Fire Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| No rain for many days. Vegetation struggling and river flows in the range of 11-19% of median. Horrific wildfire risk with over 100,000 acres already burning in Colorado. |
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| 7/6/2026 | CO-GR-52 | CO | Grand |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| While this past June was dry (0.23" rain), it wasn't as dry as 2012-2015 (0.04"-0.15"). But widespread severe drought continues, stage 2 Fire Restrictions, water restrictions in place, and high fire danger. Plants burned up, cracks in soil long ago. |
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| 7/6/2026 | CO-JF-72 | CO | Jefferson |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Lawn is fairly green, ponderosa pine doing fine, thistle crop actually looking a little healthier this week. |
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| 7/6/2026 | CT-NH-43 | CT | New Haven |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| With rainfall rate at least an inch a week over the past two weeks soil moisture remains near normal. |
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| 7/6/2026 | CT-NL-6 | CT | New London |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| Since June 1st a little over 4" of Rain has fallen Including today. Lawn growth still a little stunted from lack of rain. |
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| 7/6/2026 | FL-PN-99 | FL | Pinellas |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| Our dry season continues, but this first week of July brought us just a little bit of relief—our rainfall measured 2.50”. Temperatures remain high but this little bit of precipitation brings hope that real relief might be just around the corner. Tourist activity remains high and business was booming over the long holiday weekend. The lack of rain means our water supply and prohibitions against lawn watering remain in effect. |
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| 7/6/2026 | IL-JD-13 | IL | Jo Daviess |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture Water Supply & Quality
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| 2 inches of rain last week, no observable run off.Ponds are holding water but not over flowing. Crops look good no obvious wind or hail damage. The well is still supplying abnormal water. |
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| 7/6/2026 | IN-JY-28 | IN | Jay |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| Near normal conditions over the past spring and first few weeks of summer. I assume it wast a slightly wetter than average spring, based on how long it took for local farmers to get everything planted. My garden is really taking off now. Just watered for the first time, which is normal for first week of July. |
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| 7/6/2026 | IN-KS-22 | IN | Kosciusko |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| I have received 1.36 inches of rain this past week which was spread over three days. My cornfield is growing normally. I'm mowing my yards every week. My garden and fruit trees are growing normally. I have a plot of about 30 milkweed plants, but I have not seen one Monarch butterfly. I have 4 raccoons eating the scrapes under my bird feeders. This morning I had a deer checking out my rain gauge this morning. I am retired and enjoying the cheapest gas in the country.$2.84 a gallon in Warsaw this morning. |
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| 7/6/2026 | IA-BT-11 | IA | Benton |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Too much consistent rains this past week causing field ponding again, with creeks over flowing and high water in the rivers. Crops have benefited from the rains except where standing water, It's a constant battle keeping the lawns mowed and the weeds at bay. |
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| 7/6/2026 | IA-BH-29 | IA | Black Hawk |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
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| 4.51" rainfall between 7/2/26 and 7/4/26. Standing water in ditches, farm fields, depressions. Several local rivers have flood watches/warnings. |
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| 7/6/2026 | KS-SH-31 | KS | Sherman |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire
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| Can no longer tell where trees are being watered compared to rest of the grass; all a uniform green. |
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| 7/6/2026 | ME-LN-30 | ME | Lincoln |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| Only 0.02 inches of rain for the week. Sunny and hot. |
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| 7/6/2026 | ME-SM-3 | ME | Somerset |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Zero rain over past week. Sumac, white sweet clover, star lily all beginning bloom. No plant stress noted to date |
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| 7/6/2026 | MA-WR-28 | MA | Worcester |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| Recent heat has compounded drought |
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| 7/6/2026 | MI-WY-33 | MI | Wayne |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| While the surface is muddy, six inches down, the earth is still hard from the lack of winter moisture |
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| 7/6/2026 | MN-MR-20 | MN | Morrison |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| We received 1:87 inch of rain yesterday. The rain fall varied greatly by area. The ground moisture level in garden is up. Have not needed to water for several weeks. Lake level is near normal for this time of year. |
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| 7/6/2026 | NE-DG-63 | NE | Douglas |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Temperatures were above normal this week. I received 0.61 inches of rain this week. The soil is drying out at the surface, but still moist at a depth of 3 inches. The trees and grass are mostly green with some areas turning brown and showing some stress. Conditions are near normal. June precipitation was slightly above normal with 4.99 inches of rain (0.03 inch above normal, 101 percent of normal). So far, precipitation for July is 0.61 inch, 0.02 inch above normal (104 percent of normal). Precipitation here for the year is now 16.96 inches, which is 0.27 inch below normal (98 percent of normal). Precipitation for the water year is 1.77 inches below normal (92 percent of normal). Plants and wildlife. Bird visits to the bird bath are about the same as last week. Approximately 20 species of birds (about 100 to 120 birds visit each day). Water Supply Water level in Standing Bear Lake (approximately 0.2 mile to the east of here) is approximately normal. Area creeks and ponds are also near normal. Nearby corn and soybean fields look moist and are growing well. |
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| 7/6/2026 | NE-LA-19 | NE | Lancaster |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Soil was drying out but rained about an inch and a half over the weekend. Conditions are now good. Plants are hydrated and soil is moist. |
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| 7/6/2026 | NH-ST-40 | NH | Strafford |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| Although this area is technically still in a drought because of groundwater levels, up here on the surface conditions appear quite normal for the beginning of July. Lakes, ponds, streams and rivers are pretty much at normal levels. |
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| 7/6/2026 | NM-BR-233 | NM | Bernalillo |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health
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| hot, dry, low RH prolonged period has created very dangerous wildfire, poor air quality conditions. Wildlife seeking water. Plants showing stress. |
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| 7/6/2026 | NY-BM-14 | NY | Broome |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| A quarter inch of rain fell in the last 2 weeks. The majority of the thunderstorms missed my station. Rainfall in June was also below normal by about half an inch. Most of last week was above 90 which started turning the grass brown. Farm fields are dry enough so that the local dairy farm is spreading manure. My apple trees are dropping apples. |
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| 7/6/2026 | NY-WY-11 | NY | Wyoming |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Cloudy and warm with early morning fog and light winds, then cloudy and warm overnight with light winds becoming calm. The high temperature was around seventy seven degrees, and the low around sixty degrees Fahrenheit. Songbirds are eating a feederful every day. White Clover, Prunella vulgaris, wild daisies, Avens, Soapwort flowers, aqualegia, and Valerian flowers are in full bloom. Blackberries and Red Raspberries are ripening. Early corn is 24" - 44" tall, late corn is 12" tall. The second cutting of hay is occurring. The local intermittent stream is still flowing but drying up in places downstream and the nearby trout stream is flowing at early summer levels. |
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| 7/6/2026 | OH-AL-15 | OH | Allen |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation
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| We have had 0.46 inch in the last 3 days, which is the total for July, after 6 days of scorching dry weather. We have had over 20.90 inches for the calendar year of rain only. We are about 5 inches above the amount we got last year since April 1 and well above the 30 year average. We have been under a heat warning for several days with heat indices above 100 degrees and low temperatures staying above 70 at night until yesterday when we were only under a heat advisory. The last few days the humidity has risen and the temperature has gradually lowered. The ground finally got dried out after a fairly wet June. I have noticed several older trees that are dying in the area, maybe from the drought late last year and the cold winter we had. Some wheat fields were harvested last week. The corn and soy beans are growing, but I don't think the corn is as tall as usual because much of it was planted later than normal because of the wet spring. The birds and animals are active, with a bird in our yard this year we haven't seen before. The news is still reporting areas of flooding and wildfires around parts of the country. Some 4th of July celebrations were cancelled around the country because of excessive heat or storms. We didn't see as many fireworks from our yard this year as we did last year. |
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| 7/6/2026 | OK-MY-10 | OK | Mayes |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| After a week of warm/hot, dry, and sometimes windy weather, things have dried out considerably here. We did get 0.51" of rain Saturday evening when storms came through. The vegetation is still green, and the yard needs to be mowed, so things are still growing here. |
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| 7/6/2026 | OK-MY-12 | OK | Mayes |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Only 0.35” this week. Most of the standing water from last week’s rains are gone. The creek isn’t flowing anymore but there are lots of pools of water. All the ponds are full. Quite a few folks started baling hay this week in the area. Notice all the dead tree branches on the ground in the pond picture. Super high winds came through Saturday, July 4th, about 8:00pm. Very gusty and didn’t last long but knocked a ton of branches off trees and knocked some trees down. Then we got our 0.35” of rain. |
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| 7/6/2026 | PA-WT-18 | PA | Westmoreland |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| had a good bit of rain over the last night. |
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| 7/6/2026 | SC-GV-185 | SC | Greenville |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
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| Pool level down 3 inches during extreme heat. pool size is approximately 25'x50'. ground (dirt) is extremely hard, almost like concrete. trees are beginning to show stress with bottom branches of leaves beginning to change color and drop off. |
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| 7/6/2026 | SC-HR-172 | SC | Horry |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
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| A storm with reported downpours steered right around us last night. Grass is turning yellow. Watering garden vegetables
deeper after discovering that what I was doing didn't go down very far. |
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| 7/6/2026 | SC-RC-88 | SC | Richland |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| .12” for the week from a stray shower. Lots of close by scattered thunderstorms in the area but none at my location. High heat warnings have been the norm and I’m watering the plants early and late. Birds are watching the water evaporating out of the bird baths so they are quick to wash as soon as I fill them. Ponds are down about a foot now with the dry conditions. The resident heat dome from Mother Nature has sure kept things interesting as you have to pick your times to get out to do things. Hopefully this will abate and we’ll see some more weather conditions that are typical for us at this time of the year. Really has been the “dog days “ of summer for sure. Well all for not, stay safe, get out when it’s safe and be sure to mind the weather. |
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| 7/6/2026 | TX-CMR-85 | TX | Cameron |
Near Normal
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| water as needed |
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| 7/6/2026 | VT-CH-62 | VT | Chittenden |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Conditions in my area are comfortably moist. I've measure 1.50" of rain in the past seven days, but it's been spread out such that it hasn't been soggy. Now that we're getting heat and sun, outdoor potted plants are requiring watering, but not plants rooted in the ground. There are no signs of drought, and the La Platte river is at a moderate level. Forest understory is lush, and trees are green and healthy, so I am not concerned about fire. |
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| 7/6/2026 | VA-HG-8 | VA | Highland |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Perennial flowers, plants and weeds are wilting. Not irrigating due to concerns about well water. Last seven days only 0.35". Seldom irrigating garden and then only giving 1" a week. Crops needs at least 1-2" per week. Pasture grass not thriving. More than usual birds and insects at bird bath. |
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| 7/6/2026 | WA-ST-11 | WA | Stevens |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Water Supply & Quality
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| 0.86 inches of rain accumulated over last week, but evaporated quickly from warm strong winds.
Irrigation continues.
Fire danger High with several regional wildland fires extinguised during the week.
Small creeks continue to have below normal flows.
Precipitation Normals Comparison NOAA:
Month-to-Date: 0.18 with 0.20 inches normal or 92% of normal.
Year-to-Date: 7.37 inches with 11.76 inches normal or 63% of normal.
Water Year-to-Date: 13.99 inches with 18.08 inches normal or 77% of normal. |
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| 7/6/2026 | WI-CB-4 | WI | Columbia |
Near Normal
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Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| My neighborhood had gotten much needed rain and had nice rains totaling 2.25". There was some minor ponding in low spots and small frog ponds, marshes and distiches had water in them. This was great for farm crops, pastures as well as lawns and gardens. The Baraboo River is up slightly. |
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| 7/6/2026 | WI-KN-6 | WI | Kenosha |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Soil condition is near normal to 6". |
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| 7/6/2026 | WI-KN-21 | WI | Kenosha |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| This week’s precipitation is 0.68 inches. I was able to drive around the county of Kenosha, Wisconsin, to see what was growing. The fields are green with crops. Corn fields are taller than knee high. The cabbage has a bluish-green tinge in straight rows for as far as the eye can see, and finally, soy beans are a forest green.
My favorite field was not plowed this spring. I am hoping the farmer is giving it a rest and is not readying it for selling.
The neighborhood’s flower gardens are in full bloom with hollyhocks, Monarda, lamb’s ear, daisies, cosmos, Joe Pye weed, and evergreens, and a variety of flowering shrubs.
Looking fresh.
An unusal accurance happen after a heavy downpour. A female mallaard duck laid one egg under our locust tree. She wandered around our yard, eating what pleased her as she tended to her egg.
The Des Plaines River is full to its bank while the river grass has grown to the bottom of the bird house. |
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| 7/6/2026 | WI-MW-18 | WI | Milwaukee |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Above normal temperatures and below normal rain, with hot and muggy weather.
(01 JUL to 06 JUL)
Precipitation for the period was 0.24”. -0.55” for the period.
Cal yr 21.65, +0.90” above annual seasonal normal.
Evaporation: 1.00”
Water Balance for July: -0.76” deficit
Water Balance from 4/12 to date: +1.09” surplus
Soil Moisture 4” Depth: 125.3 cb – Dry. Change of -87.9 cb
Soil Moisture 8” Depth: 180.7 cb – Exteme Dry. Change of -68.7 cb
Temperatures averaged 79.3 degrees, +5.7 above normal for the period.
Soil temperatures, for the period, at 2” have averaged 73.3 degrees, 4” average is 73.8 degrees, 8” average is 74.0 degrees and 20” average is 69.8 degrees. +7.7 overall increase, on average, from the previous period.
Hot, humid and mostly dry week. The soil moisture took a big hit and at 4” dry and at 8” extremely dry, along with rapidly warming soil temperatures.
Lawns are browning and reduced mowing. Day lilies are in bloom and summer hibiscus continuing to grow and planter cherry tomatoes are ripening.
Bird activity now is mainly sparrows, some doves, occasional robins. Squirrels, chipmunks and rabbits are out and feeding on grass and seed overspill from bird feeder.
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| 7/6/2026 | WI-PP-2 | WI | Pepin |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| Recent rains have made the grasses feel pretty lush. Posts go in easily. The more than once a week. |
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| 7/6/2026 | WI-RC-62 | WI | Racine |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| Everything seemed to balance out as far as moisture. Mosquito seems to be normal. Ground normal. |
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| 7/6/2026 | WY-FM-21 | WY | Fremont |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Grasses cured and signs of drought showing up on foothills above and around us. Runoff in river dropped sharply several days ago. 1200 acre wildfire in juniper woodland 12 miles to the SE. |
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| 7/6/2026 | CAN-BC-37 | CAN | British Columbia |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| The week of June 29th to July 5th was often cool and cloudy. There was a total of 4.6mm of precipitation observed during the week. The highest temperature was 24.4c on the 4th, and the coolest was 5.3c on the 5th. Average temperature for the week was a cool 14.7c.
June was a month of contrasts. The month started out cool and wet, turning warm and dry in mid-month, and then cooler and cloudy at month end. There was a total of 18.5mm of precipitation in June. The highest temperature was 34.5c on the 15th, and a low of 2.2c on the 1st. Average for the month was 16.3c. Victoria Airport recorded 21.9mm of precipitation, compared to the 30-year average of 29.2mm. Average temperature for the month was 16.7c, compared to the 30-year average of 15.2c
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| 7/6/2026 | CAN-NS-53 | CAN | Nova Scotia |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| Water levels dropped but a bit of rain last week helped some. |
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| 7/6/2026 | CAN-ON-771 | CAN | Ontario |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| A dryer week this week with less than 3mm of rain. Black Sturgeon Lake level continues to drop gradually, down another 1.5” this week. A road running next to the north shore has reopened as water levels have dropped sufficiently. Ditches are drying out. Forest and lawns remain lush, but growth has slowed. Lots of boating activity on the lake this past holiday weekend. Forest fire hazard has been upgraded to extreme, although no restrictions have been put in place. Fawns are on the move with their mothers. Wild blueberries are just beginning to ripen, and the season promises to be more bountiful than last year, thanks to the June rains. |
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