| 5/5/2025 | AK-MS-12 | AK | Matanuska-Susitna |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
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| This past week saw more precipitation than we've seen in a while with 1.15" accumulating across four days. This helped green up some of the trees and will add some much needed moisture to the ground. I heard loons on Question Lake this morning; that's a sure sign spring is here. While the wild birds are present the moose remain elusive although before long we should see them with their spring calves. Thus far it has been a rather dry but seasonal spring season. |
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| 5/5/2025 | AZ-NV-7 | AZ | Navajo |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
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| Only have scattered green-up, most pastures are dry. Fire restrictions have started. |
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| 5/5/2025 | AR-CR-20 | AR | Carroll |
Mildly Wet
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Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
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| Cold water springs continue moderate flow and wet water creeks continue a steady moderate flow. Garden plantings are in ideal conditions. |
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| 5/5/2025 | CO-CR-18 | CO | Crowley |
Severely Dry
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Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
Relief, Response & Restrictions
Water Supply & Quality
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| Continued winds with blowing dirt. Grasses are off to a very slow start. Koshia and bindweed is trying to get started. Arkansas River is very very low for this time of year. Several days of fire watch/warnings last week. |
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| 5/5/2025 | CO-DL-54 | CO | Delta |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
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| 0.30" of precipitation last week with 0.29" falling in the last 24 hours. That is a good start for May but after April's 10% of normal water equivalent, there is a lot to make up. Prior to yesterday's rain, our cold season grasses were looking dry and stressed. |
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| 5/5/2025 | CO-GR-52 | CO | Grand |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| We had some good precipitation midweek this past week that helped short term but the snowpack water equivalent map for April 24 shows our area at only 81% of average. |
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| 5/5/2025 | CT-NH-43 | CT | New Haven |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
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| Recent rainfalls have kept soil moisture near normal. Nearby rivers and reservoirs are at normal levels and trees and plants are leafing out normally. |
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| 5/5/2025 | CT-NL-40 | CT | New London |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Near Normal conditions are returning for this areas lakes, ponds and streams. |
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| 5/5/2025 | FL-ES-24 | FL | Escambia |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
Tourism & Recreation
Water Supply & Quality
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| After receiving almost 5 inches of rain in 2 days, we are back to near normal. The ground sucked up all the rain - no puddles! All the Oak and Hickory tassels are gone - all washed out of the trees. What a relief that is - no more mess on the decks, cars, and driveways. Garden is good and productive though honeybees are scarce. Blue Birds are on their 2nd go round of nests. Beach traffic is getting heavier. Soon our area will belong to the tourists until September. More rain is expected during the week so I would expect the ICW, and Perdido Bay to show more river and land runoff; it could cause for an elevated bacteria count with regard to swimming. |
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| 5/5/2025 | IL-LE-27 | IL | Lee |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Near normal conditions at this time. Surface soil in garden is dry but grass is very lush and green. Local river is at normal levels. |
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| 5/5/2025 | IL-MG-14 | IL | Morgan |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
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| The lawns are all lush and the corn crop has emerged and looking healthy. The lake is full and the fields appear moist and have good soil texture and strucure. |
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| 5/5/2025 | IL-WF-14 | IL | Woodford |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
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| Another inch of rain this week has kept everything green and with moderate growth. Trees are leafing out nicely and the lawn and pasture are growing but with less than their usual springtime vigor. Crops are planted and beans are just cracking the surface. Creeks are up and river has reached moderate heights but still well below normal springtime high levels. Ground is soft near the surface but there still does not appear to be much deep level moisture, at least we seem to absorb what rain we get with ease. |
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| 5/5/2025 | IN-MD-40 | IN | Madison |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
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| This location has picked up 0.81" of rain the first 5 days of May. Ground saturation is pretty typical for this time of year. Streams are normal and vegetation is growing quickly. |
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| 5/5/2025 | ME-LN-1 | ME | Lincoln |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
Agriculture
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| .95 inches of rain for the week. Few sunny days so not much drying. Soil is very wet and some areas of standing water in pasture, but no flooding. Stream is somewhat high. |
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| 5/5/2025 | ME-SM-3 | ME | Somerset |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
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| 1.21" rain for week. Spring finally arrived. Forsythia, maples in blossom, willows leaved out, lilacs in bud, fruit trees broken bud. Some early farmland prep occurring. Fire danger high in spite of rains |
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| 5/5/2025 | MA-BR-62 | MA | Bristol |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
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| Flora are lush. Fauna are abundant. Birds are happy. Life is good |
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| 5/5/2025 | MA-NF-1 | MA | Norfolk |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Relief, Response & Restrictions
Tourism & Recreation
Water Supply & Quality
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| Little change over the past week. Rainfall has been frequent enough to keep lawns and seasonal plants thriving without need for watering. Trees are now fully leafed. Pond and lake levels remain high and seem to be near normal for this time of year. No watering restrictions are in place. |
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| 5/5/2025 | MI-WY-33 | MI | Wayne |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| Up until yesterday, ground was very hard with no moisture in top 3 inches |
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| 5/5/2025 | MN-HN-14 | MN | Hennepin |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| The landscape is greening up, and tree buds are starting to open. However, we are still experiencing a precipitation deficit. |
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| 5/5/2025 | MN-IT-38 | MN | Itasca |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Fire
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| Things are "greening up" very well. Trees have buds and starting to show leaves. Grass in the yard is nearly all green. |
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| 5/5/2025 | MN-SC-81 | MN | Scott |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
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| Upper soil levels show scarcity of abundant rainfall at the start of the growing season. Turf and shrubs are greening-up normal, but the longer term outlook is open. |
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| 5/5/2025 | MN-SH-39 | MN | Sherburne |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Sunny and 51 Hi 76 Wind SSE 9 mph. Will have wind gusts up to 19 at times. Another beautiful day. |
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| 5/5/2025 | MN-WG-20 | MN | Washington |
Mildly Dry
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Agriculture
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| We may be a little behind our average rainfall but the environment looks green and healthy. |
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| 5/5/2025 | MO-JF-21 | MO | Jefferson |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
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| Ground is saturated again due to recent one + inch of rain at this location. Grass grows faster than can be kept up with |
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| 5/5/2025 | MO-PT-8 | MO | Platte |
Near Normal
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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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| Grass is starting to really take off. Warm season grasses beginning to grow also. Walnuts are leafed out so guess freezes are over for sure now. Cattle enjoying the moderate temperatures and that we have had another MUDLESS spring. Flowers and honeybees and hatching birds and worms crawling all reminders of another growing season is upon us. Tomatoes are doing well and I didn't have to cover them for any frost/freeze event!! Rains have been spotty, the photo shows how we have missed the bigger amounts...
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| 5/5/2025 | NE-LA-19 | NE | Lancaster |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
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| Recent rains have led to an explosion of green growth. Surface waters are normal to low for this time of year. The sump pump is not running which is a good indicator of dryness in the subsoil. More rains are needed to keep from slipping back into moderately dry category. Birds and plants are happy for now. More activity in the fields and blowing dust has subsided for now, although a layer of dust on flat roofs everywhere. |
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| 5/5/2025 | NM-TR-21 | NM | Torrance |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
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| Recent rains are helping green up the pastures. Mostly normal for this time of year. Manzano mountains have received more rain than lower elevations keeping fire danger somewhat lower. Livestock and wildlife seem to be doing OK. |
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| 5/5/2025 | NY-WY-11 | NY | Wyoming |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
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| Cloudy and cold with fog, light winds, drizzle and rain, then cloudy and cold overnight with fog, light winds, drizzle and rain. The high temperature was around fifty four degrees, with a low around forty nine degrees Fahrenheit. Songbirds are eating a feeder full every day. Intermittent streams are flowing. Mayapples, Trilliums and Serviceberries are blooming, Meadow Rue, Stinging Nettles, Canada Lilies, and Blue Cohosh are emerging further. Weeping Willow, Silver Maple, Black Cherry and Bush Honeysuckle leaves are appearing. Killdeer and Fireflies are back. Some alfalfa is 12" tall. Rock removal and field plowing is occurring. |
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| 5/5/2025 | NC-MS-19 | NC | Madison |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
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| Windy and dry conditions have left us mildly dry. But pastures, hay fields and Christmas Tree fields remain lush and green. Water supply is still good and water levels have held steady in creeks and springs. The risk of fire is probably acceptable. |
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| 5/5/2025 | OH-ER-8 | OH | Erie |
Moderately Wet
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Agriculture
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| The ground is saturated and some water standing. Planting of crops will need time for soil to dry |
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| 5/5/2025 | OH-FL-23 | OH | Fulton |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
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| Definitely mud season, rain is delaying garden and outside chores |
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| 5/5/2025 | OK-KY-30 | OK | Kay |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
Society & Public Health
Tourism & Recreation
Water Supply & Quality
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| There is water standing in places where water does not normally stand. Farm fields are very muddy. Most farm pounds have filled Back up. Lake Ponca has refiled. Kaw lake is 6% over full. Grass and weeds are growing faster then we can mow them. The fire danger is absent |
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| 5/5/2025 | OK-MY-10 | OK | Mayes |
Severely Wet
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General Awareness
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| We received 3.65" of rain last week which thoroughly saturated the ground in our area. With nowhere for the water to go, the creeks and streams backed up significantly, closing several roads on the south side of Pryor for more than a day. Any heavy rain this week will likely produce a similar result. On the positive side, all of the vegetation is green and lush. |
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| 5/5/2025 | PA-NH-15 | PA | Northampton |
Severely Wet
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General Awareness
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| Very wet ground, trees mostly leafed out, grass goring rapidly and very green, creek and lake up a little |
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| 5/5/2025 | PA-NM-3 | PA | Northumberland |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| No noticeable change since last week. Water level in the pond is still at the overflow. Soil is very moist, but I haven't seen any standing water. |
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| 5/5/2025 | PA-WT-18 | PA | Westmoreland |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
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| flowers are growing, rain is plentiful so far, we're doing well weather wise. |
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| 5/5/2025 | TX-CMR-85 | TX | Cameron |
Mildly Dry
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| watering as needed |
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| 5/5/2025 | TX-LV-21 | TX | Lavaca |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
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| It's so dry. We had some rain over the weekend, but it'll take a season of rain to break this drought.
In the yard, landscape needs watering- small ornamental trees showing stress due to lack of water. Unusual this early in the season.
It looks like it's going to be a dry summer. I'll have to water judiciously. I worry about the well with such dry conditions. I still have to keep my nursery plants watered.
Vegetables doing well with regular watering. |
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| 5/5/2025 | VT-CH-50 | VT | Chittenden |
Mildly Wet
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| grass and maple trees greening rapidly |
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| 5/5/2025 | VA-FQ-21 | VA | Fauquier |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
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| Trees fully leafed out, grasses growing, and backyard gardens planted. Ag producers remain concerned that drought conditions may prevail for yet another season. 1.56" rainfall total for May 1-5. Local streams and ponds low for this time of year. |
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| 5/5/2025 | WA-CK-78 | WA | Clark |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Today is a warm sunny day of spring, normal for this time of year. |
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| 5/5/2025 | WI-MW-18 | WI | Milwaukee |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
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| Very warm to end April, very cold to start May but averaged above normal temperatures for the period. Rainy week, with normal conditions as soils are normal.
(29 APR to 05 MAY)
Precipitation for the period was 0.83”. -0.22” .
Cal yr 9.87” -1.44” below annual seasonal normal.
Evaporation was 0.62” for a water balance for the period of +0.21”
Season Water Balance 25 APR to 05 MAY is -0.08”
Temperatures averaged 55.4 degrees, +1.5 above normal for the period.
Soil temperatures, for the period, at 2” have averaged 51.7 degrees, 4” average is 51.7 degrees, 8” average is 53.3 degrees and 20” average is 51.6 degrees. +4.6 overall increase, on average, from the previous period.
Soil Moisture for the period at 4” averaged 0.24 bar – normal, and at 8” averaged 0.07 bar – wet.
Spring weather continues with warmer temperatures and very high pollen readings. Precipitation was slight below normal for the week, so continued below normal for both the Water Year and Calendar Year. However, short term Soil moisture is normal at 4 inches and wet at 8 inch depth.
Birds are frequenting the bird feeder. Geese are have nested and have goslings, Robins have returned and are nesting and the squirrels and rabbits are out often. Lawns are green and growing, with the mowing about once per week. Bulb plants growing starting to flower, rhubarb and peonies are growing, some trees still are in bud stage, with other trees leafing out. Flowering trees are blooming or in full bloom.
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| 5/5/2025 | CAN-ON-771 | CAN | Ontario |
Moderately Dry
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Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Tourism & Recreation
Water Supply & Quality
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| Less than 1.0mm rain this week, and several warm and windy days since, drying things out. Forest floor debris in higher areas is dry, as is moss on exposed rock. Forest fire hazard rating is High, but no restrictions are in place as yet. Lower areas are still wet and spongey. The last of the icy trails have melted, and the most shaded ground is starting to thaw. Small creeks have slowed. Most of the ice (if not all) is now off Lower Black Sturgeon Lake, and boats and docks are going in. The lake level has risen by 3.5” this past week. No leafing out yet in the poplars or birch. The loons have returned, and the frogs are in chorus. |
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