| 5/14/2026 | CO-JF-81 | CO | Jefferson |
Moderately Dry
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Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
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| Drying out again after last week's lovely moisture. |
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| 5/14/2026 | GA-GM-12 | GA | Gilmer |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
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| Having to water my garden every couple of days. |
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| 5/14/2026 | IL-HY-6 | IL | Henry |
Near Normal
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Agriculture
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| Top 2-4 inches of topsoil is dry. Subsoil is normal to slightly wet in some areas. Tiles and creeks have normal volume |
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| 5/14/2026 | IL-WL-63 | IL | Will |
Mildly Dry
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Plants & Wildlife
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| No rain in past week, thus, hand-watering is necessary for new grass and plants. Otherwise lawn is green and trees are flourishing. |
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| 5/14/2026 | IN-KS-66 | IN | Kosciusko |
Mildly Wet
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Agriculture
Fire
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| Spring crop planting is running about 2 weeks behind schedule because of regular rains. Crops including corn,soybeans and peppermint. Great for mint not so much for row crops. Also all vegetation is lush and thick |
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| 5/14/2026 | IN-VG-24 | IN | Vigo |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
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| My water year number is slightly above normal |
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| 5/14/2026 | KS-LV-4 | KS | Leavenworth |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
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| Crops and plants doing well, ponds and streams are full. |
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| 5/14/2026 | KY-AL-20 | KY | Allen |
NA
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General Awareness
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| Mowing is like a dust bowl, surface dirt is very dry. What is usually lush this time of year looks like August, dry and depleted. Over the septic tank is dried up which should be lush
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| 5/14/2026 | KY-BU-5 | KY | Butler |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
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| Grass is still green but growth has slowed. Our garden tomatoes, corn, squash are still doing fine without having to water them. The creek behind our house still had a small stream running. |
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| 5/14/2026 | KY-MU-14 | KY | Muhlenberg |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Normal conditions for this time of year. |
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| 5/14/2026 | MN-HN-384 | MN | Hennepin |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
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| No substantial rain in the past two weeks. Ground is becoming very firm. Need rain soon or the clay soil will be too hard and the water will just run off. |
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| 5/14/2026 | MS-HD-25 | MS | Hinds |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
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| A good rain last week helped conditions. Ground dry. |
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| 5/14/2026 | NE-CS-5 | NE | Chase |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| Grass on prairie or dry land fields is barely sprouting. Photo is of frenchman creek near wauneta. |
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| 5/14/2026 | NM-LU-88 | NM | Luna |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
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| Near normal conditions for the time of year, winter and spring were above normal, and 0.43" at beginning of May. Green forage now diminished, cattle are starting to eat protein supplement again after a break since February from the weeds. Cattle numbers are well below historic normals due to long term drought conditions. |
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| 5/14/2026 | NM-VL-37 | NM | Valencia |
Severely Dry
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| Dry, dry, dry, dry, dry dry dry dry dry dry dry |
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| 5/14/2026 | NY-OD-66 | NY | Oneida |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
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| Rain and cool weather
conditions have been the norm during April and May |
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| 5/14/2026 | NY-OG-91 | NY | Onondaga |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Patchy areas of wet soil and wet soil/mud sometimes sticks to shoes |
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| 5/14/2026 | NY-WY-11 | NY | Wyoming |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
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| Morning rain, cloudy and warm with moderate winds, then mostly cloudy and cool overnight with light winds. The high temperature was around sixty degrees, and the low around forty degrees Fahrenheit. Songbirds are eating a feederful every day. Barn Swallows are trying to nest. Sugar Maple leaves, White Ash tree buds, Hackberrry tree buds, Apple Tree flowers, Black Cherry flowers, Black Walnut leaves, Jewelweed leaves, Johnny-Jump-Up flowers, wild strawberry flowers, and Bush Honeysuckle leaves are appearing. The local intermittent stream and nearby trout stream are flowing at spring levels. |
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| 5/14/2026 | OH-GG-21 | OH | Geauga |
Severely Wet
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General Awareness
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| Continual cool wet leaving standing water in low areas.Only able to mow 50% of acreage ground too soft. |
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| 5/14/2026 | OR-LC-41 | OR | Lincoln |
Severely Dry
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| Yesterday, May 13, was the first actual precipitation, .26, except for a couple of traces since April 23. Can you say “DRY?” |
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| 5/14/2026 | OR-YM-7 | OR | Yamhill |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Had a good rain yesterday that moistened things up a bit. It was starting to get dry. Still the ground is wet down a few inches. Strong wind gusts dried grass up yesterday enough to get the mower through it. Everything is lush right now but early. Roses are in full bloom - at least 2-3 weeks earlier than normal at my location. Other plants like peonies and rhododendrons are just about normal. Poison oak is everywhere. Really bad this year in places I’ve not seen it before. Maybe because it wasn’t cold enough this winter? Not sure. Put traps out for queen yellow jackets a couple weeks ago but only caught one. It’s about time for black tail deer fawns but haven’t seen them yet. |
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| 5/14/2026 | PA-CD-30 | PA | Cumberland |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
Fire
Tourism & Recreation
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| Overcast sky this morning. |
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| 5/14/2026 | UT-SL-96 | UT | Salt Lake |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
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| Mountain snowpack this spring has been below the 30+ year climatological minima, with March being an exceptionally warm and dry month. April was closer to normal in terms of temperatures and precipitation. The first half of May has been mostly dry with some recent 90+ degree weather at lower elevations. Currently snowpack is only patchy above about 9,000 feet elevation, more typical of late June. Fire danger is moderate at lower elevations and low elsewhere. |
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| 5/14/2026 | VT-ES-3 | VT | Essex |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
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| Standing water in the area from snow runoff spring is now replenished from last summer’s drought |
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| 5/14/2026 | VA-NL-9 | VA | Nelson |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
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| We've had less than 2" of rain since early March. We are nearly 12" below normal for the past 12 months. We received about .5 inches on Monday and it was nearly gone before it stopped raining. No mud, no damp. By Tuesday morning you couldn't tell it had rained. |
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| 5/14/2026 | WA-CM-79 | WA | Clallam |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
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| Received .03 rain past two days, potentially more on the way. Will hopefully allow a break from irrigation. Have been watering bare root native trees (planted 3 months ago) every week or two since 4/1. County declared stage 2 drought for some water districts, voluntary water usage reduction. Local market stands farmer anticipates irrigation stoppage late summer. Hiked Dungeness Forks yesterday. Guide said river level is about 75% of average and wildflower blooms up to one month early.
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| 5/14/2026 | WA-IS-43 | WA | Island |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
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| Island County, in Washington State, made up of two Islands, Whidbey and Camino, just ended a two week dry spell today, May 14, 2026. The rain actually began yesterday and continued this morning while I was taking measurements. |
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| 5/14/2026 | WI-MC-22 | WI | Manitowoc |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
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| Area is still drying out from an unusually wet April. |
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