| 7/4/2026 | AL-CN-21 | AL | Calhoun |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Soil retains somewhat soft. Plant and tree growth maintain green. No wilting or brown colors. |
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| 7/4/2026 | AZ-GN-3 | AZ | Greenlee |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| High potential of fire risk, vegetation is dying off, animals are searching for water sources and you could come in contact with large animals like bears, mountain lions etc. |
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| 7/4/2026 | AZ-MH-25 | AZ | Mohave |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| Moderate D1 drought status along the lower Colorado River valley. Very dry this 4th of July weekend and on the 250th Anniversary of American Independence! |
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| 7/4/2026 | CA-SD-12 | CA | San Diego |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| The land has dried out as is usual for the summer here in San Diego County. Year to date rainfall is 7.65" and water year to date is 11.50". Landscape watering has been ongoing for about two months. Wildfire abatement and weed removal is complete for the season. |
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| 7/4/2026 | CO-AR-413 | CO | Arapahoe |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| CY 52% of normal, WY 49% of normal. Have lost a few garden plants which didn’t receive supplemental water. |
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| 7/4/2026 | CO-EP-488 | CO | El Paso |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| Small shallow cracks in the yard, I am watering grass every 3 days for 45 minutes |
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| 7/4/2026 | CO-JF-617 | CO | Jefferson |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
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| After a few rain events recently, we have returned to severe drought conditions. With watering restrictions in place, the toll on landscaping is becoming evident. Wildfires are raging to the west and south obscuring our skies with smoke. Reservoirs are draining to critical levels. This is a desperate situation. Fortunately, local municipalities are cancelling fireworks displays. Filling our already smoky skies with more fireworks smoke would be totally inappropriate. |
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| 7/4/2026 | CT-NL-29 | CT | New London |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation
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| Despite 0.42" of rain during the last week, the area remains dry. Watering of gardens is required. The hot, muggy weather has led to crowded beaches. |
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| 7/4/2026 | DE-NC-10 | DE | New Castle |
Severely Dry
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| Lawns brown. Springs not flowing. |
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| 7/4/2026 | DE-SS-3 | DE | Sussex |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| 6/28-7/3 only .31" during one event. Much humidity and morning dew keeping grass green and growing. Field irrigation used for first time on corn across the road. Morris Branch is dry at all pipe crossings. |
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| 7/4/2026 | FL-AL-50 | FL | Alachua |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| Lake Alice, golf course and especially retention ponds are dropping below average. Heat is stressing plants too, so annuals need daily watering. Lawn not growing much. Happy 250th! ???? |
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| 7/4/2026 | FL-AL-107 | FL | Alachua |
Moderately Dry
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Agriculture
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| Drought conditions are back just when we thought the usual summer rains had returned. We are irrigating the pastures again. |
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| 7/4/2026 | FL-CR-80 | FL | Collier |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| We've had a bit of rain but things are still on the dry side. Mosquitoes are bad, the County has sprayed a couple of times. The burn ban was lifted in time to have fireworks for the 4th of July.
My basil, dill and parsley have succumbed to the heat despite watering 3x/week. |
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| 7/4/2026 | FL-MA-10 | FL | Manatee |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Energy Fire
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| FIRE - The Drought Map for Florida as of June 26 shows us at D-3 EXtreme Drought. However, the last 7 day Precipitation for us is 1.76” of rain. This should help us get out of the Drought Extreme Category and start to lessen our Fire Hazards.
ENERGY - The last seven days has put us in Normal Temperatures both day and night. Previously, as reported, our night time temps were 4-10° above normal. We’re closer to normal.
GENERAL - Rain has come down! And it looks like our forecast for the next 10 days puts us BACK into a normal Summer Pattern of Showers and/or Thubndeerstormsl during the afternoon and early evening hours. |
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| 7/4/2026 | FL-VL-60 | FL | Volusia |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| minimal rain in the last 10 days, grass overall looks pretty good, mostly green |
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| 7/4/2026 | IL-BN-19 | IL | Boone |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| No doubt, the canicular, blast furnace, scorching, dog days of summer have arrived, starting almost a week earlier than the official date of July 3. Fortunately temps have moderated as of Thursday night and just maybe the soil moistens up and the mosquitoes disappear. One can dream. Rain for the week, that repeatedly skirted this area, totaled 0.20", resulting in mildly dry soil conditions for the time being. Local waterways are doing ok, being near their normal levels. Trees are looking pretty good considering the hot and windy days we just endured. And lawns are hanging in there so far. Saw a doe deer with two little ones the other day and other than the random droppings on my driveway, wildlife has been kind of subdued. Our two resident turkeys have lost a couple poults since last week but the remaining ones are getting bigger and will probably be able to stay out of harms way. The phoebe nest near our porch ceiling now has chicks that were feeling the recent heat as they continue to grow. And finally, about those mosquitoes. They have returned in force and are abundant, tenacious, relentless and everywhere, even during mid day, sometimes in my garage, forcing me into retreat mode. Haven't seen them this thick for a while. With any luck the dragon flies will show up and take a bite out of their numbers.
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| 7/4/2026 | IL-ME-15 | IL | Menard |
Near Normal
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Agriculture Energy Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Despite the week long Heat Advisory and no rain except for last night's, it seems like early July weather to me. We picked wild blackberries this morning. The alfalfa has flowered and needs its 2nd cutting. The grass and pasture were mowed this week and could use another mowing. The lower sheep pasture was too soft to chance mowing without getting stuck even though there is no standing water. The creek and pond are gently flowing but flooded areas have dried up. During this week we have had two brief, off-on power outages not related to thunderstorms. The lawn mowing has robbed me of my daily mushroom monitoring. It was interesting watching them change as the days went by. I saw a newly hatched cicada with its shell nearby. Japanese beetles and Green June bugs are hard to ignore. Mosquitoes are terrible. There was an unusual grouping of two squirrels, a young rabbit, and a chipmunk along with the normal birds feasting under our bird feeder in apparent harmony. No further shrew discoveries. I did see a small toad and a frog with a stripe down it, in the yard. Our dog killed a young raccoon in the early morning. I wish they would not come into the fenced yard. We still see deer, fox and what I hope is a lone ground hog about the place. Driving to Springfield on highway 29 yesterday I noticed the corn outside of Cantrall looks nice. I also noticed that little critters are getting killed along the highway at various places. (three little raccoons and a small skunk). I hate that. Also the spider webs have been very visible with the early morning dew. |
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| 7/4/2026 | IN-AL-133 | IN | Allen |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation
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| Couple of puddles streets with poor drainage may have slight floods near the curb trenches, divots holes in yard may have been soaked and muddy during the rain. |
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| 7/4/2026 | KS-BU-25 | KS | Butler |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| No rain since last report. But greenery remains healthy though grass not growing nearly as fast. Creek down some but still full. Birds remain busy as do flies. Wasps have made their presence known more often. |
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| 7/4/2026 | KS-DG-84 | KS | Douglas |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| recen rain; ground moist; vegetation green |
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| 7/4/2026 | KS-JO-134 | KS | Johnson |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Hot and dry. Normal for end of June and beginning of July. |
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| 7/4/2026 | KS-KW-2 | KS | Kiowa |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| 8.04 inches of rain in June is over 200% of normal. We are still 5 inches below normal for the year to date. That said all the vegetation is healthy and looks good and the creeks and ponds are about normal for this time of year. With all the days of rain in June the farmers are still planting some fall crops and we are just now putting up our first cutting of alfalfa. |
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| 7/4/2026 | KY-CM-3 | KY | Cumberland |
Moderately Wet
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Agriculture
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| 9.2 inches of rain on the first day of the period, followed by 6 dry days. |
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| 7/4/2026 | LA-AS-20 | LA | Ascension Parish |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!
This week has been scorching, with high temperatures and mid-50% humidity. There’s no sign of rain for the start of the week. The ground is cracked in some areas under large trees and along the driveway. Keeping newly planted grow bags watered has been a challenge. A drip irrigation system in the grow bags is needed. Herbaceous plants were wilting in the afternoon heat and sunshine. Rain continued to miss this area, but lightning was close by. The rain traveled just north and south of here, and even dissipated just before reaching my area. Finally, on Thursday afternoon, we received a brief 0.14” shower that dried up before the lawn’s roots could get to it. lol. The grandkids spent June with us. They are from 9K feet elevation in Colorado and have been complaining about the high temperatures and humidity we have here even though they usually visit every six months and know a little about weather conditions in this area. The one day we did get a cooling shower, they ran barefoot in the rain and loved the feeling of grass to play on. The grandkids only have sand in most places around their home in CO. |
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| 7/4/2026 | ME-WL-8 | ME | Waldo |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| A long stretch without rain has brought on the need to water garden plants. Lawn is still green and growing normally for this time of year. |
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| 7/4/2026 | MD-WR-31 | MD | Worcester |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| June 2026 summary from eastern Worcester County (using midnight to midnight data) - Temperatures were near to slightly above average with an average daily maximum of 83.2 and an average daily minimum of 65.2. The highest daily maximum was 96.4 on the 11th and the lowest daily maximum was 73.8 on the 1st. The daily maximum was 90 or higher on 6 days. The lowest daily minimum was 51.1 on the 9th and the highest daily minimum was 76.3 on the 12th. The average daily humidity was 75.7%. The dewpoint was 70 or higher on 19 days. Total rainfall was 4.81 inches, which is about 145% of average. Measurable rain was observed on 7 days. |
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| 7/4/2026 | MA-BA-51 | MA | Barnstable |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Relief, Response & Restrictions Water Supply & Quality
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| no rain in a week |
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| 7/4/2026 | MA-BE-21 | MA | Berkshire |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Hot temperatures over this past week, fortunately some showers, adding up to 0.91", provided some needed moisture to the gardens and fields. Everything is growing well. Groundhogs continue to be active, and rabbits. Bee activity seems to have increased over this week. Rivers and streams are running at fairly normal levels. |
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| 7/4/2026 | MA-BR-62 | MA | Bristol |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Current heat wave has dried out the soil. Grass has turned brown in many spots. Small ponds are dry on this wooded lot. However I'm not noticing any signs of stress on the trees. The heat is unrelenting. Wildlife browsing by deer, woodchucks, turkeys unchanged. No obvious impact to well water. |
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| 7/4/2026 | MA-HD-28 | MA | Hampden |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Relief, Response & Restrictions
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| Total weekly precipitation of 0.59 inch. Have had Extreme Heat Warnings from Wednesday through today. Also had an Air Quality Alert. Ground remains dry and most plants appear to be doing OK despite lack of precipitation and water restrictions. Our area is quite below where we should be at this point in the water year. Less birds and squirrels seen during the very hot periods of the day. |
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| 7/4/2026 | MI-IH-32 | MI | Ingham |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| A week of no rain and extremely high temps and humidity, unless yesterday when a thunderstorm produced over half an inch of rain and a tornado warning (none was sighted). Standing water in the driveway. A lot of the field corn is 6' tall. Beans look good. Sugar snap peas in the garden are producing. Creek level is a little low. |
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| 7/4/2026 | MI-WY-125 | MI | Wayne |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
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| Hot and dry conditions followed by a single thunderstorm late in the week. |
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| 7/4/2026 | MN-HN-285 | MN | Hennepin |
Near Normal
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| Plants are growing tall, everything is green and lush |
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| 7/4/2026 | MS-PR-14 | MS | Pearl River |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| The heavy rain this past week has passed us by a 1/2 mile or so. We got some but it knocked down the dust only to dry out with the heat. With watering everything in the garden is drying out except for the okra, melons |
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| 7/4/2026 | MO-CN-10 | MO | Clinton |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
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| Report for 28 June 26 to 4 July 26. There was 1 day of precipitation for the week, for 0.38 inches. The total precipitation for June is 5.66. The historical average for June is 4.70 inches. The total precipitation for July is 0.38. The historical average for July is 3.70 inches. The current condition is Mildly Wet. |
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| 7/4/2026 | MO-NW-4 | MO | Newton |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| The rain has ceased for the early summer and now things will begin to dry out, Shoal Creek is still high but returning to normal levels. Hay meadows and fields are drying enough to begin harvest. Fire danger is low but rising due to 4th of July weekend Smalll animals and deer are very active. Daily temperatures are rising into the 90'sº daily. |
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| 7/4/2026 | MO-SG-5 | MO | Ste. Genevieve |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| No rain this week with hot weather stressed everything. Row crops, pastures , gardens, potted plants. Water levels dropping in impoundments. |
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| 7/4/2026 | MT-LC-19 | MT | Lewis And Clark |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| I had just under 3 inches of rain since June 25th. Thus everything is green. Some grass growth, but not as much as you would think, as it was stressed by the early warm/windy conditions. Soil is wet on top in a few places, mostly in ditches, several days after it rained. When cars went into the ditch during the rain, they left about 1 foot ruts, or even got stuck. This is probably the greenest 4th of July I have seen in the Helena valley in 15 years. Continue with near normal conditions...but a few days of mildly wet conditions did occur earlier this week. |
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| 7/4/2026 | NH-GR-77 | NH | Grafton |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Tourism & Recreation
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| A couple heavy showers this week keeping the area moist. Hiking and mt biking trails have few mud sections but those are drying out. Lots of mushrooms to be found. Mad River flow at six mile bridge paddlers gage averaged about 0.1' this week. |
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| 7/4/2026 | NM-BR-183 | NM | Bernalillo |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| Numerous larger, older pinons in the neighborhood dying off. Now up to 3 dying/dead just in our backyard. While there are young pinon, with climate change I wouldn't be surprised if this landscape shifts from pinon-juniper woodland to a more juniper dominated one.
Been hot, dry, windy and now with wildfire smoke from SW. |
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| 7/4/2026 | NY-JF-48 | NY | Jefferson |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture Water Supply & Quality
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| Report for the week of June 27 through July 4, 2026. This week has been much warmer than usual starting on 6/30. Temperatures were in the high 80°’s with humidity in the high 80% to low 90% range. Making it very uncomfortable being outside doing anything. We had severe thunderstorms on 7/1 and 7/2. These storms had alot of thunder and lightning, high winds, and heavy rain. Rain on 7/1 was 1.64” and on 7/2 was 0.46”. Our vegetable garden is doing well. The lawn had to be mowed twice. The AQI has been in the moderate range during the high heat days. The St Lawrence River level are 246.8 feet, 45.4” Above Low Water Datum and 67.8°F recorded at the NOAA Observation Station at Alexandria Bay, NY at 08:48. Happy 250th Independence Day!! |
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| 7/4/2026 | NY-WY-11 | NY | Wyoming |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Sunny and hot with increasing clouds and light winds, then mostly cloudy and warm overnight with light winds. The high temperature was around ninety degrees, and the low around sixty eight 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. 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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| 7/4/2026 | NC-CH-61 | NC | Chatham |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife Relief, Response & Restrictions Society & Public Health Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| Conditions here remain severely dry. Today the 250th Anniversary of Independence will be as hot as the proverbial firecracker. Yesterday's high temperature here was 105 F at 34% humidity. Today may hit 110 F as extreme heat continues through to Monday. Heat advisories and stage 1 and 2 water use limitations have been issued in the Piedmont. Cooling stations for those in need have opened. Fire danger remains high. Local reservoir water levels are dropping. Lake Jordon, our major reservoir, water levels declined to the point where people can walk out into the former lake. We have curtailed outdoors activities until the heat wave breaks. The forecast for next week calls for lower temperatures, albeit above the "normal" high temps. No rain in sight. Nevertheless 4th of July Celebrations will take place throughout the region. |
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| 7/4/2026 | NC-CH-87 | NC | Chatham |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| It is extremely hot and dry. Our grass is getting brown and the plants are parched. We are outdoor people, but it is too hot to be outside after mid-morning this week. In 20+ years living in this area, I don’t remember experiencing such drought conditions. |
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| 7/4/2026 | NC-PR-19 | NC | Perquimans |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Relief, Response & Restrictions Society & Public Health Water Supply & Quality
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| Extreme heat wave with very humid, tropical, and hot weather - limited to water activities outside and the air conditioning has to run constantly-older people and babies need to limit exposure outside -Corn tasseled and rolled early and other crops look yellow and stunted-Algal blooms are popping up in bodies of water
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| 7/4/2026 | NC-UN-1 | NC | Union |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Daily highs have been hovering in the 90s to low 100s, mirroring the hottest stretches of the year. Little to no rain in June < 2". Dry and hot - seems like no relief in sight until fall. Creeks have stagnant water making it difficult on wildlife - high stress in all areas and I see D4 back in our area very soon.
Happy 250th Birthday America - |
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| 7/4/2026 | NC-WK-185 | NC | Wake |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Fire Society & Public Health Water Supply & Quality
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| June and July have been characterized so far by decreased and absent downstream creek water flow and little to no rain. Out of multiple residential Fi02 samples, a few were within PEL, and a few were out of PEL. Recent lower than PEL 02 measures coincided with weather related regional health warnings. Higher than normal 02 measures sampled prior to the season change (spring/summer) coincided with regional burn bans. |
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| 7/4/2026 | NC-WT-80 | NC | Watauga |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Three days of record high temps and only .81 rain received. On the trails numerous streams are dry (see pic). Several trees are turning brown very early ( see pic). Observed snapping turtle on the trail a great distance from water. |
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| 7/4/2026 | OK-PH-1 | OK | Pushmataha |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| A Hot and much drier weather pattern developed this week with only 0.08" inches of rainfall observed over the past seven days. While this was not a significant rainfall, our recent dry weather we had prior to this recent rainfall event resulted in our soil conditions drying out somewhat. However our overall soil conditions are still fairly moist from last weeks rainfall. Next, our area grasses are a mixture of green grass and brown grass, and our trees remain in good shape, but I did notice some yellowing of the leaves on some of the trees this week too. Lastly, area wildlife have been active with multiple sightings of various different bird species flying about, and also multiple sightings of different insects including: mosquitoes, wasps, and butterflies. |
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| 7/4/2026 | OR-CC-76 | OR | Clackamas |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health Water Supply & Quality
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| Fire danger appears to be low today - we have clouds and high humidity this morning. Yesterday, fire danger might have been moderate. So I expect that we will hear our neighbors having fun with fireworks this evening - something that doesn't happen every year, because more years than not, fire danger is high by July 4. Lawns are losing their green, and gardens definitely need some irrigation, although a heavy mulch has served my potatoes well. The heat last month made for a sudden harvest of green peas, but there were still some slender pods on the vines, which are still filling out. Raspberries and bear berries have done well. The first crop of lettuce is done, and the second just getting started. Lots of fledgling birds around. At least one swallow fledged yesterday, but it appears there is a split brood, as there are others in the nest still being fed that aren't yet old enough to be peeking out the opening. Perhaps our doe has hidden her fawn nearby, as she has been making frequent visits to our yard, pruning some of the vegetation. Deer seem to hide their young near people, because perhaps, predators don't go that close to human activity. Ate supper at the neighbor's yesterday and was surprised by all their mosquitoes. We have very few, but we not only have swallows, but damselflies, dragon flies, and hummingbirds. Maybe we even have a bat, but I haven't seen sign of one yet. The little bit of rain earlier this week seemed to really encourage some burrowing creatures. My foot is often finding soft spots in the chicken run and garden, and even a woodpile became rather seriously tilted, one corner dropping by about 6 inches into the ground. Trees are well leafed, and maple and ash and Dougfir may have unusually heavy crops of seed this year. The hayfever season seems to be over for most of us. The roadside ditch and the creek have good flow still. Vegetation has encroached heavily on the creeks and pond. |
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