| 8/22/2026 | AZ-MH-25 | AZ | Mohave |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| Moderate Drought D1 status along the lower Colorado River valley. Dry & hot! Extreme heat warnings w/ past week ranging 108F-120F. Desert landscape vegetation stressing w/ some mortality in the neighborhood. |
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| 8/22/2026 | CO-AR-413 | CO | Arapahoe |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| CY 61% and WY 57% of normal |
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| 8/22/2026 | CO-DG-176 | CO | Douglas |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
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| Maple leaves are browning at the edges and falling early. Shorter days and a down pore over the weekend has helped but the ground is still cracked. |
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| 8/22/2026 | CO-EP-488 | CO | El Paso |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| the recent rain has helped the plants to recover from the dry hot summer Have not used sprinklers all week, but have gone 3 days with very little rain, less than .10, need rain today |
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| 8/22/2026 | CT-NL-29 | CT | New London |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation
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| 1.61" of rain fell during the week. The lawns and vegetation are green. Garden has not required watering, unusual for late August. Cloudt, wet days limited beach activities. |
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| 8/22/2026 | DE-NC-10 | DE | New Castle |
Near Normal
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| Springs flowing normally. |
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| 8/22/2026 | DE-SS-3 | DE | Sussex |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| 8/16-22 2.55" from 3 rain events. There is standing water in my ditch and a puddle again in Morris Branch. Returning to cutting grass every 7-10 days. |
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| 8/22/2026 | FL-AL-50 | FL | Alachua |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Lake Alice and ponds are slightly above average given some ~1 inch/day rains. Lawns and plants thriving. |
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| 8/22/2026 | FL-MA-10 | FL | Manatee |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Energy Fire
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| FIRE - Fire Hazard has increased this past week due to the lack of any precipitation at all. Last 7 days has seen no rain in our area, but to the East of our location we can see “Thunderstorm/Rain Clouds, and see and hear thunder and lightening.
ENERGY - Close to last week with daytime temperatures near normal but night time temperatures above normal but 3° to 5° each night. This gives compiling relief during the evening and night hours, requiring the AC to run more than normal at night.
GENEERAL - Daily pre=icipiation is happening daily, only not along or near the coast but inland. |
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| 8/22/2026 | IL-BN-19 | IL | Boone |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Some soaking rains arrived this week, totaling 2.39". Rainfall for the month so far is 6.05", making the soil surface wet with deeper soil finally receiving a good soaking. And with area waterways above normal, it seems safe to say mildly wet soil conditions have finally arrived. We've had an unusual weather pattern since late winter of bone dry conditions, followed by substantial rains for 2 weeks or so followed by 6 weeks or so of drought like weather. We'll see if this wet weather of late is going to turn dry for a while. The drought monitor map still has my area as abnormally dry but it has improved. Trees are looking great and lawns of course are lush and green and need mowing about every 5 days. Wildlife is kind of quiet out there, especially one unexpected critter that I found lying in the grass not too far from our busy road. I thought it was a mink while others said a young fresh water otter, as there are ponds and a creek nearby. Whatever it was, it was surely a rarity. Seems you can never be sure of what you might find out there. |
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| 8/22/2026 | IN-AL-42 | IN | Allen |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Turf grasses still brilliant green and thriving; usually brown and dormant this time of year. Small creek out back is flowing strongly; usually bone dry this time of year. |
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| 8/22/2026 | IN-FL-3 | IN | Fulton |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| I have recorded 1.27 inches of rain at my location during the past 7-days. Crops and grass are lush and green. Have some standing water in some fields due to recent heavy rains. |
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| 8/22/2026 | KS-JO-134 | KS | Johnson |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| We've had an inch of rain this week, with milder temperatures in the upper 80s and lower 90s. Plants look healthy. Monarch caterpillars on milkweed have gone off to form their chrysalis and become butterflies. |
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| 8/22/2026 | KS-KW-2 | KS | Kiowa |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| .12 inches of rain this week brings us to 27% of normal for August. All of the vegetation is suffering from lack of moisture. The grasses in the pastures is drying out and turning brown or already seeded out and mature. The heat has been hard on the plants, animals and people. The fire danger has been high when the wind blows. There have been some fires started by lightning from the rogue thunder storms. |
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| 8/22/2026 | KS-ST-19 | KS | Stanton |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Far drier than the drought monitor depicts. Missed several big rains. Coupled with highs consistently around 100ºF and lows in the mid-70s, evaporation exceeds nearly all the accumulated precip since July 1. Highest Precip event so far was early January with a wet snow eqv. to 1.25", followed by a few .80" rains in May. Just shy of 8" since May 1 and 9.5" for the year. Evaporation has far exceeded rain total.
Buffalograss has been dormant since late June, mainly due to lack of moisture, but the intense heat has exacerbated its dormancy despite occasional precip. Early planted dryland corn may yield a few ears and milo in terrace bottoms, or along the ditch headed out; however, nearly all late-planted corn and milo burnt up a month ago. Hoping El Nino can break the current pattern before the winds of winter arrive. |
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| 8/22/2026 | KY-CM-3 | KY | Cumberland |
Near Normal
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Agriculture
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| 1.01 inches of rain this week. |
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| 8/22/2026 | 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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| got decent rain yesterday but nowhere near enough. Went almost 2 weeks with nothing |
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| 8/22/2026 | MA-BE-21 | MA | Berkshire |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Soil conditions are normal. Over the past week 0.58" of rain recorded. Rivers and streams are running at fairly normal levels. Lawns continue to be green, and gardens growing very well. Black Walnut trees seem to have a bumper crop of nuts this year. Geese are active. Many pollinators within the gardens. |
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| 8/22/2026 | MA-ES-64 | MA | Essex |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| .11 inches of rain in the last week, soil is very dry. Leaves are falling off trees becuse of the dryness. Watering the garden because it's dry. |
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| 8/22/2026 | MA-HD-28 | MA | Hampden |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Relief, Response & Restrictions
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| Weekly total rainfall of 0.36 inch. Dry conditions throughout the yard. Our area which is in the Connecticut River Valley region remains in moderate drought per the Massachusetts Drought Monitor and so water restrictions remain in place. We have been hand watering our few vegetable plants and 2 newer maples trees. |
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| 8/22/2026 | MN-YM-18 | MN | Yellow Medicine |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Society & Public Health Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| This past week this location received 79 100ths of rain. Despite the recent rain lakes and rivers continue to lower. Small pea sized hail was also reported at this location. Three miles north and northeast larger hail caused crop damage. See photos.
Normal outdoor recreational activities are enjoying good weather. The only exceptions are where rivers have lowered to shallow depths.
For this time of the year crops are ahead of maturity. |
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| 8/22/2026 | MO-CN-10 | MO | Clinton |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Report for 16 Aug 26 to 22 Aug 26. There were 5 days of precipitation during the week, for 0.61 inches. The total precipitation for August is 4.02 inches. The historical average for August is 3.70 inches. The current condition is Near Normal. |
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| 8/22/2026 | MO-NW-4 | MO | Newton |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Hot and dry days continue for another week, everything is dried and brown with 100º temperatures. Very few animals are moving about and the Humming birds are swarming around the feeders. Shoal Creek is getting to its summer low. Fire danger is high. less than 1/10" of rain this month so far. |
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| 8/22/2026 | MO-SG-5 | MO | Ste. Genevieve |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| Wasn’t too warm this week, mid to upper 80’s with some rain, 3/4”. I was able to operate open platform tractors. I’m 76 so I don’t work in hot weather.
Row croppers have been chopping silage and some started shelling high moisture corn. Yields are the best ever. Not too much rain this growing season but timely rains. The corn never showed signs of wilting. Cow-calf operators are saying the same. Some are starting to cut second crop grass hay.
Small impoundments are slowly dropping. The easy rain never resulted in much runoff. |
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| 8/22/2026 | MT-RV-18 | MT | Ravalli |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Relief, Response & Restrictions Water Supply & Quality
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| The .7" of rain (local and spotty) we received a week ago is long gone. Very hot temperatures. Everything is brown and crispy. Streams are very low. Not much wind and few fire starts, so no fires around here, but we are getting smoke from Oregon and Washington. Dry thunderstorms predicted today with a brief and slight cool down. Bitterroot Nationl Forest had banned campfires but lifted the ban after spotty rainfall a week ago, even though it is now just as dry and hot as it was. They are short on fires this year, but are trying! Surrounding forests still have campfire bans. |
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| 8/22/2026 | NH-GR-1 | NH | Grafton |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Lake level very low, River very low. Streams not flowing. Grass is very dry, dirt beneath the grass is dry. Watering annuals daily. Grass is no longer green. Numerous brush fires in the area. |
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| 8/22/2026 | NY-JF-48 | NY | Jefferson |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Water Supply & Quality
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| Report for the week of 8/15 through 8/22/2026. We received 0.34” of rain for the week. Most of it fell on 8/20, 0.23”. Temperatures have been pleasant. Highs have been in the upper 70’s to low 80’s and the lows have been upper 50’s to low 60’s. All vegetation is growing well and we have been harvesting vegetables from our garden. The wildlife have been eating the ripe berries and tree nuts. St Lawrence River level recorded at the NOAA Station located on Wellesley Island near Alexandria Bay, NY. 246.27 feet, 39.1 inches and 73.4°F at 08:36 today. |
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| 8/22/2026 | NY-WY-11 | NY | Wyoming |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Predawn light valley fog then sunny and warm with light winds, then mostly clear and cool overnight with light winds. The high temperature was around seventy five degrees, and the low around fifty four degrees Fahrenheit. Songbirds are eating a feederful every day. White Clover, Achillea millefolium, Prunella vulgaris, Marshmallow, Soapwort, White Vervain, and Horse Nettle flowers are in full bloom. Red Raspberries are almost done ripening, Thimbleberries are beginning to ripen. Walnuts and apples are about 1 inch in diameter. All corn are around 84" tall, have silk and are beginning to tassel. A fourth cutting of hay is occurring. Cicadas are emerging. The local intermittent stream is dried out and the nearby trout stream is flowing at mid-summer levels. |
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| 8/22/2026 | NC-PT-116 | NC | Pitt |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Recent rains have moved us from Moderately toward Mildly Dry. We are still in a deficit, and it only takes 4-5 days without rain to begin observing stress again in lawn grasses and plants. Some plants have been stressed beyond recovery, notably we have one holly tree that is adjacent to lots of concrete, and drought conditions have caused leaching of water that has damaged the tree. Unsure that it will recover.
Local rivers and streams are still very low; recent rains have done little to increase water levels.
August month-to-date we have received 2.80" but are still 1.46" below / 65% of NOAA normal.
YTD we have received 21.24", 12.10" below / 64% of NOAA normal. |
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| 8/22/2026 | NC-WK-185 | NC | Wake |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Energy
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| The most significant impact yesterday was a combination of atmospheric and anthropogenic factors affecting residential ambient indoor carbon dioxide. After vacating the < 254,000-liter residence for 3 hours prior to the storm, indoor carbon dioxide was 32 torr. After removing the electric window exhaust fan to protect it from anticipated high wind and rain overnight, the indoor carbon dioxide reached a monthly high of 75 torr this morning. |
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| 8/22/2026 | OR-CC-76 | OR | Clackamas |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| Of note, moderately dry is not far from normal for this time of year here. We had a splash of rain earlier this week, and the nights have been down in the lower 50F range with good humidity. Ash trees are showing quite a bit of yellow, plums and pears are about ready to harvest - maybe a week early. Grass is all dried up. Insects, birds, and animals are quickly attracted to watering. The gardens need daily water. Deer nibbled the blossoms off my potatoes. Blackberries have been plentiful, now quite a few clusters are simply drying up on the vines. Soil that is bare and not watered may be showing cracks. Fire danger is high, and in the afternoons, it is important to be careful with the tools one uses in the forest. A nearby farmer has quit watering his hay and is beginning to put it up - it looks rather short. mornings have been smoky due to the fires up by Ripplebrook, but people have been outside working, exercising, and playing. Motorcycles are common on the roads. |
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| 8/22/2026 | OR-CC-88 | OR | Clackamas |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Fire
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| No precip this month. Only 0.02" moisture since late June. Gardens, vegetation need daily irrigation. Fire danger elevated. Warm, sunny conditions continue. |
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| 8/22/2026 | RI-KN-36 | RI | Kent |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| .90 inches of rain this past week. |
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| 8/22/2026 | RI-PR-135 | RI | Providence |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation
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| With another 0.54” of rain this week conditions remain near normal for August. The Pascoag Reservoir has dropped to 8’11” but is still relatively high for this time of year and the usual summer activities like boating and fishing continue. Kingbirds, waxwings, sparrows, finches and woodpeckers remain busy and the hummingbirds remain regular visitors to the feeder. The lawn is healthy looking and green and needs weekly mowing and the cherry tomatoes are producing at a high rate. Fire danger at George Washington state campground is posted as Low. Summer is starting to wind down. |
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| 8/22/2026 | SC-AK-106 | SC | Aiken |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health
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| NWS KCAE COOP STATION GNTS1 ***LOCAL CONDITIONS REMAIN MILDLY DRY, BUT TRENDING TOWARDS MODERATELY DRY DUE TO INSUFFICIENT RAINFALL***0.77 INCHES OF RAINFALL RECEIVED AT THIS STATION IN THE PAST 14 DAYS....RECEIVED 3.61 INCHES RAINFALL IN THE FIRST SEVEN DAYS OF THE MONTH....DURING YESTERDAY'S (21AUG2026) FROPA PASSAGE, THIS STATION RECEIVED 0.07 INCHES OF RAINFALL WITH THUNDERSTORMS IN THE VICINITY....MONTH-TO-DATE (MTD) RAINFALL = 4.38 INCHES, WHICH IS -0.57 INCHES BELOW NORMAL, NOT INDICATIVE TO CURRENT LOCAL CONDITIONS....YEAR-TO-DATE RAINFALL = 25.48 INCHES, WHICH IS -8.19 INCHES BELOW NORMAL (THROUGH 01SEP2026) INDICATIVE TO CURRENT LOCAL CONDITIONS..... |
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| 8/22/2026 | SC-GV-94 | SC | Greenville |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| Retention pond is about two feet below normal.
Tributaries are flowing normally. Clay soil is deep red color and spongy, after walking on grass you leave wet footprints on the concrete.
It has been hot, so outside activity has been sporadic. Quite a bit of frog activity. |
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| 8/22/2026 | SC-RC-12 | SC | Richland |
NA
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| We've measured 1.34" in the last 7 days with the swimming pool level holding steady and the lawn growing well. |
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| 8/22/2026 | TX-KF-20 | TX | Kaufman |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| The high temps we have been having, with no rainfall is taking its toll. Our pasture is brown and I took a picture of our main pond…it is awful. You can see where the water level should be. I don’t know if any of our fish are alive. A surrounding town has started limiting watering. The picture from our front porch shows some green, we have been watering. |
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| 8/22/2026 | TX-VV-16 | TX | Val Verde |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| It has been over a month since any measurable rain |
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| 8/22/2026 | TX-WA-24 | TX | Washington |
Severely 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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| All of the below categories have been effected in one way or another, some more severely than others. Most all of the plants and crops are showing severe dryness. Livestock tanks have started to dry up . Air conditioners are continually running. This is typical Texaas summer weather |
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| 8/22/2026 | TX-WM-316 | TX | Williamson |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Energy Fire Relief, Response & Restrictions Water Supply & Quality
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| According to my records we have had 0.02" of rain in the last 35 days -- since the floods in July. Meanwhile, it has been around 100 degrees daily for over a week, and anything not getting some sort of watering is pretty well dried out. Cracks are appearing again in our lovely blackland clay soils; burn bans are being issued; and birds are flocking to out fountain. Watering restrictions have generally been followed for the last couple of years -- good community habits have taken hold, even with high lake levels at the moment. |
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| 8/22/2026 | WA-ST-11 | WA | Stevens |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Water Supply & Quality
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| Extreme Fire danger rating with multiple regional wildland fires still fully extinguished.
Creeks and streams continue to have record low flows.
Wheat and grain crops are in full harvest
Precipitation Normals Comparison NOAA:
Month-to-Date: 0.30 inches with 0.45 inches normal or 67% of normal.
Year-to-Date: 7.80 inches with 13.02 inches normal or 60% of normal.
Water Year-to-Date: 14.42 inches with 19.34 inches normal or 75% of normal. |
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| 8/22/2026 | WI-FL-6 | WI | Florence |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Business & Industry Energy Fire Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| For the week 8/16 - 8/22 2026 ----- EARLY MORNING TEMPERATURES at Data collection: Aurora: 70, 56, 62, 48, 46, 61, 57 & Kingsford : 70, 58, 62, 47, 47, 60, 60, 56 -----Highs this week still in the high 70's& low 80's------ WATER CONTENT IN THE GAUGE: AURORA - .01, T, .01, 0, 0, .01, .67+.03 Total= .73" KINGSFORD - .01, T, .01, 0, 0, .01, .68+.03 Total= .74 ----- SNOWFALL- Aurora and Kingsford : nothing no snow ----- MENOMINEE RIVER: Water levels all week at a low summer water height and river flow in the high 800 and low 900 Cubic Feet per Second range. -----US DROUGHT MONITOR: Moderate for all of Florence WI and 4/5 of Dickinson County MI. Grass is brown and I have here in Aurora 2 charcoal burned grass spots with the sun blazing so hard and grass so dry they literally smolder burned. A new 1st for my yard. Where there is no shade, it's dried wheat to light brown colored grass. Only afternoon shade to all day shade is there green grass. I mowed just 2 times this month and the second time just mowing down some weeds and grass in the full shade and that is strongly unusual, however little by little and especially after last night and early this morning's rains, I see more green grass than I have seen pretty much all month ------ AIR QUALITY: This week excellent ------ WILDFIRE RISK: Both Florence & Dickinson County are in the low category thanks to that very much needed rain Friday early evening and this Saturday morning------ TOURISM: Still strong saw 5 campers go passed my house this week and a bunch at Walmart and traveling along highway US 2. Boat towing was still low this week. A windy few days kept the fishermen off the water I saw this week in just 2 rides on the river when I went, just 5 total and they weren't biting much Saw vehicle License plates while in town from Missouri, New York, Texas & Florida------BUSINESS: Loggers active, HVAC, Big Rigs towing equipment and articles for construction & 1 farm equipment this week-----WILDLIFE: Deer population still good, they look healthy too and eating well. Finally this week saw two eagles flying above the river. Geese 1 flock heading south and another flock from the north landing by the bridge. Saw one blue heron, plenty of ducks. No sighting of the Nighthawks yet. Oh and a flock of wild turkeys has shown up this week in the neighborhood----- PLANTS & TREES: Leaves off Box Elders and Red maple dropping fairly steady and my sugar maple only has dropped a few dried out ones. My onion plants and Black eyed susans are still hanging in there and raspberry bushes already produced berries.----- That's all I have for this end of the week. Get out and enjoy the nice weather before it changes! |
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| 8/22/2026 | WI-PP-2 | WI | Pepin |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| Many brown patches in the lawn. Pasture is growing but slowly-lots of common ragweed which is more drought tolerant.
Posts go in with difficulty. |
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| 8/22/2026 | CAN-MB-43 | CAN | Manitoba |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| 0.08 inch precip this week, water table dropped 1.0 inch and is 7.0 inches above 13 year average. Mostly sunny with light winds, heavy morning dews and moderate temperatures. Healthy vegetation growth continues, a lot of frogs and snakes around. |
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| 8/22/2026 | 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 16-22 Aug: (0+ 0+ 2.0+ 26.5+ T+ 0.5+ 0)= 29.0mm Near Normal. High's: +21C to +28C, Hx to +33C; Low's: +20C to +11C; Wind: Mostly calm, the odd breeze SV to 15km/hr; Dew: 2 heavy dew. This week was very warm, not hot, with a lesser Hx. We got one very good rain overnight, 26.5mm. That put some moisture back into the ground. The other precip was light showers. Trees, shrubs and plants are doing well. Avg Hx is still in low 30's, but quite bearable. Streams and creeks are still below seasonal norm. The deer have been absent both this week and last. Typical for Aug. They rotate their grazing grounds. Tourism is strong and on-going. In one traffic line-up on Peggy's Cove Rd, due to overhead work, there were 4 double-decker buses full of sight-see'rs. Hope they like the view. We are under a SWSt for Sun AM into Mon PM, for prolonged heavy rain, 50 to 100mm, for mainland NS. And to close, our NS burn Ban map currently shows all of NS Yellow. This potential rain could turn us Green. |
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| 8/22/2026 | CAN-ON-210 | CAN | Ontario |
Mildly Dry
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Agriculture
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| nice weather this week very little rain and lots of sun. |
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