| 3/30/2025 | AL-HN-7 | AL | Henry |
Near Normal
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Plants & Wildlife
| Grass appears in to be in need of cutting again; was cut 1 week ago, so growing quickly. |
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| 3/30/2025 | AL-WN-7 | AL | Winston |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Society & Public Health
| Current rainfall, while light to moderate, has ensured soils are saturated and wet. Consequently, fire risk and dust activity remain suppressed. Plants are healthy as well. Pollen counts are very high and leading to allergies, but the recent rain has succeeded in removing some pollen. |
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| 3/30/2025 | AZ-CH-72 | AZ | Cochise |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
| 0.0 inches precip this week. |
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| 3/30/2025 | AZ-NV-42 | AZ | Navajo |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
| Temperatures in the low 60's and clouds to start the week before temperatures quickly rose to the 70's. The warmest day was Tuesday with a high of 77°. Highs stayed in the 70's a few days before dropping closer to normal and back in the low 60's. Lows ranged from 28° on Monday to the 30's and 40's the rest of the week. The week ended with a lot of clouds at times and windy with no precipitation falling last week. Trees are now starting to bud out in the area with aspens, willows, and crabapples putting on growth. The forsythia is starting to bloom and the redbud is getting close. Harvested the first asparagus out of the garden. Saw a robin in the yard for the first time and green/yellow finches. Some Cassin finches are also building a nest and the scrub jay is frequently in the yard. Also, saw a rabbit on a morning walk. |
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| 3/30/2025 | AR-CR-23 | AR | Carroll |
Moderately Dry
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Agriculture
| Had a little rain today but conditions still very dry especially for time of year. Grass very slow growth, ponds getting lower and still windy regularly. Forecast has improvements predicted. Still feeding hay. Temperatures warmer than average. |
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| 3/30/2025 | AR-PL-1 | AR | Polk |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
| We received 0.61” of rainfall this week and have had 0.62” and conditions are drier than normal. Soil moisture has increased this week due to the rain but streamflows and water levels are still lower than usual. We have been under a burn ban most of the week but it was lifted on Friday with the rain. Plant/crop growth is improving due to the rains and the warm temperatures. |
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| 3/30/2025 | CA-HM-214 | CA | Humboldt |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
| surface puddling rivers high |
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| 3/30/2025 | CA-MD-42 | CA | Mendocino |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| Rained again this week but we are ending the month a bit below normal (currently at ~84% of normal for March, although it is supposed to rain today). Still above normal for the water year (113%). Frogs are still croaking, we don't need to water anything. No significant standing water anywhere. |
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| 3/30/2025 | CA-MD-45 | CA | Mendocino |
Moderately Wet
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Business & Industry
Plants & Wildlife
Tourism & Recreation
Water Supply & Quality
| Just over an additional inch of rain since the last report. We also had some unusually warm weather for the time of year. Lots of tourists in town, so local cafes are full even during the week. Trees and shrubs continue to leaf out and it is delightful to watch the hummingbirds feeding on the red-flowering currants now in bloom. Also starting to see the spring butterflies -- little blues and sulfurs. |
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| 3/30/2025 | CO-BO-568 | CO | Boulder |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| No moisture the past 2 weeks until yesterday (Saturday). Then we got hail and rain with over 1.5 inches of moisture in Boulder. Last weekend I did hand watering of some roses and noted that most vegetation was brown and dry. This weekend, the trees and shrubs are starting to leaf out. Temperatures have remained warm and the winds have been constant and gusty, but due to the recent precipitation, conditions seem to be near normal. |
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| 3/30/2025 | CO-DG-329 | CO | Douglas |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
| Received .71” of rain between early Sat morning 3/29 and afternoon; all outside ground cover/shrubs/plants starting to show green along with some grass greening-up |
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| 3/30/2025 | CO-EP-449 | CO | El Paso |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
| A stormy weekend for March, 0.67" coming from rain/wintry mix. This brings us closer to normal for March. Lilacs are getting close to leafing out. Garlic and Chives are 6-10" tall. |
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| 3/30/2025 | CO-LR-1272 | CO | Larimer |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Tourism & Recreation
Water Supply & Quality
| Sticking with Mildly Dry this week. I got a nice wet snowfall adding .44" of moisture last night. Precipitation is still low for YTD, WYTD, and MTD using PRISM normals for my location. Mountain snow pack SWE is at 99% of normal median for the 6-digit HUC South Platte River Basin and 105% for the 8-digit HUC Big Thompson River Basin. Meadow looks really dry but starting to see some flowers (Hooker's Towndsend Daisy) coming up - among the first flowers to appear. Current bushes are beginning to have bud swell but haven't seen swell on aspens yet. Birds continue to frequent the birdbath. River flows remain low but are beginning to come up. Wildlife other than birds have been wandering through the neighborhood browsing on shrubs, dry grasses, and dry forbs. Still plenty of snow in RMNP for most activities at higher elevations. Hidden Valley sledding area conditions as of 3/28 are very poor. No concerns of wildfire at this time. |
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| 3/30/2025 | CO-WE-541 | CO | Weld |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
| dust from crop fields in the air, haven't had any significant moisture for weeks, playas and ponds are dry. In general for home gardening extremely dry. Not much new growth of anything. Last year it was so hot and dry with grasshopper infestation I'm just waiting to see how many plants were destroyed last year. Not even the kochia grew last year so lots of bare dirt and grasshoppers ate every plant and strip the bark off of some bushes so I just have to wait and see what lived. I hope we start getting some moisture. Just last night we had 20 moisture and hoping for more
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| 3/30/2025 | CT-NH-56 | CT | New Haven |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
Energy
Plants & Wildlife
| General: clammy cold wind even on the few warmer days, continuous soil dampness, snowbells still blooming, intense, cold driven feeding activity at the bird feeders, first ever sighting of redwing blackbirds at the feeder, very few robins in the area, but a few ospreys are returning. Heat was off a couple of times in last ten days, but now back on full time. |
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| 3/30/2025 | CT-NL-21 | CT | New London |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Society & Public Health
Water Supply & Quality
| Since my last report on 3/16/25 there has been a total of 3.62" of precipitation. The water level in Hopeville Pond is about normal. Water supply quality and quantity are good for human consumption. There are still a number of animal prints [deer, fox, coyote, and various birds to include, the usual yard birds and ducks and swans] around the pond. The outdoor temperature is still cool to cold which requires the people to keep their heat source turned on. We are still about 8 inches below the normal amount of rain/snow for the year. There still is a fire band in place for now. |
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| 3/30/2025 | CT-NL-56 | CT | New London |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| the soil surface is damp, the spring is running, little is growing yet…all’s normal for late MArch. |
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| 3/30/2025 | CT-NL-76 | CT | New London |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Water Supply & Quality
| Conditions are roughly normal for the end of March. The stream near the station has returned to its normal levels. The garden near the station will be started with cold hardy plants such as peas and kale soon. The past couple days there has been a bobcat making a lot of noise early in the morning in the forest. |
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| 3/30/2025 | FL-MA-38 | FL | Manatee |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
| Frequent watering of lawns and plants is still required. Most retention ponds have little to retend. |
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| 3/30/2025 | FL-OR-40 | FL | Orange |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
| Dry and windy all week with very little precipitation. Fire Weather warnings. Moderate drought conditions. Strong thunderstorms moved in Sunday late afternoon with torrential rain this location from 5-6:15PM. |
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| 3/30/2025 | FL-ST-42 | FL | Sumter |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Fire
| Report for the week of March 23, 2025 through March 30,2025. High temperature for the week was 87°F on 3/29. Low temperature was 42°F on 3/23. We received 0.03" of rain this past week. The ground is dry and the grass is mainly brown. Trees and grass pollen are moderately high. Outside activities have been pleasant with the warm temperatures and low humidity. The low humidity has elevated the wildfire risk. |
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| 3/30/2025 | GA-DG-9 | GA | Dodge |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
| This week's rain gauge catch is 0.35", putting us at 3.79" for the month, nearly an inch behind our average of 4.63." Still, dry conditions don't seem to be having an outsized impact just yet. Lawns are starting to get shaggy with early weeds. Azaleas and dogwoods are blooming in force and songbird activity is at typical spring time levels along with bees and other insects doing their thing. Low humidity and brisk winds keep pushing us into fire caution warnings. Temps have been moderate. |
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| 3/30/2025 | GA-FN-11 | GA | Fannin |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
| Almost daily red warning alerts. Relative humidity has been low ...it has been extremely dry. Several forest fires reported around. The local pastures are greening and the perennials are coming up all over. |
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| 3/30/2025 | GA-MD-5 | GA | McDuffie |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
| Plants are not suffering yet but soil is drier and burn bans have been issued. |
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| 3/30/2025 | HI-KI-2 | HI | Kauai |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Relief, Response & Restrictions
| It?s still cooler temps but very little rainfall ... March has turned out to be a much lower than average month ... |
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| 3/30/2025 | ID-AD-9 | ID | Ada |
Near Normal
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Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
| March 24 - 30, 2025: a trace more than a total of 0.15" rain; variable weather during the past week as storms move from the Pacific coast through SW Idaho--windy to calm; periods of rain to dry; overcast to sunny; warm to cooling overnight; normal March weather. Apricot trees are blooming; forsythia are in full bloom; crocus have been beautiful but are now fading; grass is growing rapidly; royal crown fritillaria has been above ground for the past week and has blooms beginning to form; leaves just opening on the apple trees; pulmonaria is covered with many-colored blooms; spring yard and garden cleanup jobs are nearly finished. Pollen counts, especially for cottonwood and juniper, have been very high to extreme for the past 2 weeks. Rain in the valleys and snow in the higher mountain and foothill elevations. Reservoirs are filling and water is being released to the Boise River to make room. Discharge in the Boise River at Glenwood bridge was increased in steps from about 3,800 cfs on March 27th to 4800 cfs on March 29th. Water has not been released to the New York canal yet. |
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| 3/30/2025 | ID-BK-27 | ID | Bannock |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Energy
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
| General: The 25 year long-term (uncalibrated) average for this site is 104.22" of snow, and we are now at 118.73. This is really good news. I spoke to my neighbor who does dryland farming and we are in good shape for spring crops.
Agriculture: We're looking good for soil moisture
Energy: Our solar panels are creating more energy than we consume: Yesterday, produced 53.28 kWHR, used 46.40. The system was sized for 98% capacity, but that was before we converted to heat pumps. Yesterday was partly cloudy.
Fire: Risk is low, since there's a lot of standing water and snow on the ground yet.
Plants/wildlife: The Sandhill Cranes are back, looking for nesting spots...always a welcome harbinger of spring. We are seeing ducks on ponds, which are starting to show open water.
Water: We're looking good, based on the last 25 years. |
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| 3/30/2025 | IL-AD-16 | IL | Adams |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
| A couple of nice soaking rains this past week are kicking spring and getting plants into growth mode quickly. Above normal temperatures as well with continuing winds that are typical with the change of season. We continue with the dry conditions since we have been so severely dry for so so long and feel its going to take a long time to recover. We will start probing the ground soon to get a better feel of how things are deeper than top soils. |
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| 3/30/2025 | IL-CP-1 | IL | Champaign |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
| About a half-inch of rain this week (0.34" of it yesterday). Grass is greening up, bulbs continue to emerge. Chives are growing in the herb garden. Despite the rain, numerous vegetation fires continued to pop up this week with warm and windy weather. Precip is near normal for March, but still 2.82" below normal for the year-to-date. |
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| 3/30/2025 | IL-HY-30 | IL | Henry |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Fire
Water Supply & Quality
| This week is I am still calling for Mildly dry conditions, leaning toward Moderately dry. Only had just at 0.30" of rain this week. Ground is dry, but grass is continuing to green up and grow. Have had lots of windy days that has dried the topsoil. There were a couple days of fire warning for dry vegetation. Yearly and Water YTD are still in the 80th percentile. There were a couple rain chances this past week that did not materialize. More chances forecasted for this week. Will have to see how those systems pan out. More farmers have been moving anhydrous tanks but no real field work yet. Up and down temps with each passing front, with temps mainly above normal. Rivers have maintained their levels this past week. The Mississippi River is forecast to rise over 2 feet this coming week. That should put it where it really needs to be for barge traffic. |
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| 3/30/2025 | IL-KN-67 | IL | Kane |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| Conditions are normal. The ground is moist, even muddy in some areas. Lawns are in spring growth, turning green. All early spring plants like tulips are green and healthy-looking. Early season trees and bushes are budding. |
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| 3/30/2025 | IL-KN-121 | IL | Kane |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
| Again, I am covering a two month period: February and March.
February continued to be below normal, but still picked up 86% of the long term average. March experienced above normal precipitation of 172%. Soils are being recharged, rivers are up from recent months, and there was a re-emergent of ephemeral water bodies in agricultural fields and other low lying areas.
Prescribe fires were able to burn a little earlier in the month of February due to lower precipitation for the month and the lack of a snowpack. Fire in March was still possible, but needed to work around the various rain events and high winds.
March rains/snow have had a positive result in allowing emerging wildlife, such as amphibians, from another mild winter to take advantage of the rising water pools. |
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| 3/30/2025 | IL-MCH-13 | IL | McHenry |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
| US Drought Monitor has my location in Abnormally Dry, but it is just miles from Moderate Drought. 0.40 inches of rain fell this week, and my station is 137% of NOAA normal for March, and 76% of normal for YTD. Grass is greener, bluebells are about 3-4 inches high, Winter Aconite and Snowdrops are in full bloom, and some of the daffodils are emerging. Wind has been noisy and strong on several days this week. |
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| 3/30/2025 | IL-MD-53 | IL | Madison |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
| 30 March 25: After rain on several days this past week conditions are fairly wet. Turf on ground with relatively high organic matter is soft underfoot and damp, but not releasing water under foot pressure. Not so for turf on lower organic matter soil which releases water under foot. Drain tiles 12 to 18 inches deep flowing heavily. Puddles forming on low ground. Sinkholes full and ponds full to the point of overflow. |
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| 3/30/2025 | IL-TZ-26 | IL | Tazewell |
Mildly Dry
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| This week was dry again so my condition will remain Mildly Dry. With just two days left in March I am almost 5 inches below the Prism 30yr. avg! I received just 0.01" measured and some trace observations this week. I tilled my garden yesterday and the soil was only moist. This week I have been able to get a lot of yard work done. The grass is greening up nicely and spring flowers are beautiful. Trees and shrubs are starting to leaf with white flowering trees starting to bloom. The pond is full with some overflow and our local creek is flowing but just a little below normal. Mrs. goose is laying eggs but not sitting on the nest yet. |
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| 3/30/2025 | IL-WF-14 | IL | Woodford |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
| Ongoing bits of precipitation are keeping the surface muddy but the moisture doesn't seem to go very deep. Trees are budding well and the pasture and lawn are green but very little growth. The creek is higher than expected but the river is still very low. |
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| 3/30/2025 | IN-BR-6 | IN | Brown |
Severely Wet
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General Awareness
| Water already standing in fields and yards ahead of what is expected to be a very wet week. About .4” fell this morning, and water was across the road. |
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| 3/30/2025 | IN-MD-38 | IN | Madison |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Business & Industry
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
| Little to no standing water in the local fields. Local streams and rivers still appear at near normal levels. Local construction projects appear to be working at normal schedules. Our Maple tree is still budding. Many bulbs are well above ground with growth. The grass is getting greener and beginning to show some growth. |
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| 3/30/2025 | IN-OW-9 | IN | Owen |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| Normal conditions, no adverse affects |
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| 3/30/2025 | IN-PR-3 | IN | Parke |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
| rain over past week warmer temps |
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| 3/30/2025 | IN-PT-12 | IN | Porter |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
| No effect. |
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| 3/30/2025 | IA-TY-2 | IA | Taylor |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
| Grass is starting to grow. Soil moisture is ok but could use some rain. Looks like we could some this week. Some trees are starting to leaf out. Everything looks close to normal. |
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| 3/30/2025 | IA-WB-17 | IA | Webster |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
| With about 0.2 inches of rain this past week conditions remain unchanged. Add temperatures in the low 80’s with 30+mph wind burn bans and fire conditions persist. Lawns and pastures are slowly greening. Basement sump pump has started up for the first time this spring. |
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| 3/30/2025 | KS-DC-9 | KS | Decatur |
Severely Dry
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Agriculture
| 2025 wheat crop at my farm is starting to look a little rough with no rain. |
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| 3/30/2025 | KS-LN-6 | KS | Linn |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
| While we recently recorded rainfall from recent showers of just over .5", we haven't observed much in the way of precip over the past 30-60 days. Conditions have been between mildly to moderately dry, with cooler conditions contributing to mildly dry vs moderately dry. Conditions seem to remain about the same with no trend in either direction. High temps in the high 70s to low 80s have been occurring, with frequent fronts. High winds from the SW alternating to the NW - back and forth. Sustained 20-25 mph winds with gusts 40+ have been common in southerly and northerly directions. Soil is clay here, and is hard and dry - indicating low moisture. Cool weather grasses, daffodils, iris, are doing fairly well due to cool conditions in-between, and recent .5" rain will help, however if additional rains don't come plant stress will occur. Creek on our land still has some small flow, indicating the sub-soil still has moisture. WILDLIFE REPORT: Turkeys have been breaking up their winter flock pattern and toms are strutting - warmer high temps have been triggering this recent activity. Deer dropped antlers much later than they usually do in early February. This year bucks were carrying their antlers well into mid March - not alot of data but this is the first we've seen this over the past 8 years. Water temps in reservoirs have been significantly cooler than normal. Currently at Melvern Res in Kansas, surface temps are between 47 and 49 degrees and coming up very slowly. Over the past 15 years temps are typically from low 50s to upper 50s. I fish for walleyes every year in this exact timeframe and the difference this year is noticeable and from other anglers. Walleyes are slow and behind their spring pattern that is triggered by higher temps. The pattern of up and down temperatures are most likely impacting wildlife behaviors on land and in water. |
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| 3/30/2025 | ME-LN-1 | ME | Lincoln |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
| .89 inches of melted snow (6.0 inches) and rain during the week. Ground is mostly thawed and moist, but not as moist as it can be at this time of year. Stream has good flow but also normal for this time of year. |
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| 3/30/2025 | ME-LN-13 | ME | Lincoln |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| The fields and wet areas in nearby forest is very wet, but as usual for season. Water bodies are full. No signs of drought here. |
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| 3/30/2025 | ME-WL-8 | ME | Waldo |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
| The soil seems dry for this time of year. Rain coming later today and tomorrow may help a bit. |
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| 3/30/2025 | MA-BA-57 | MA | Barnstable |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
| 0.54” in the preceding seven days (not counting this morning’s catch). With today’s catch, we now stand at 3.52” for the month-to-date. That’s 68% of PRISM average with only minimal catch expected before we flip to April. Water year to date stands at 18.61”, which is coincidentally also 68% of average. Garden soil is reasonably moist irrespective of the deficit. Things are really starting to green up. Pond is back to normal control depth; wildlife activity is normal. |
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| 3/30/2025 | MA-BE-36 | MA | Berkshire |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
Tourism & Recreation
| Temperatures cooled to more seasonable levels last week and the rush to spring slowed. The first bloom of crocuses has disappeared and daffodils have yet to flower. Nearly an inch of rain has kept the soil wet and occasional snow showers coated the ground. Basset Brook has retreated to normal spring flow levels. Turkeys have begun gobbling in the woods and spring peepers and wood frogs have appeared in our pond. No spotted salamanders yet. More flocks of Canada Geese are flying north. Trails on Mt Greylock lower elevations are starting to dry out but are still wet. Rhubarb is beginning to sprout but raspberries, blueberries, grapes and fruit trees remain dormant. |
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