| 4/7/2026 | IN-NB-48 | IN | Noble |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
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| Resulting from last week's rain, our waterways are the fullest I've seen them, as far as I can remember. I'm seeing fields flooded in new spaces, overreaching into new areas. But the water is reducing from retention ponds, so we're getting closer to normal. The water in ditches is full of sediment. Brown. |
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| 4/7/2026 | KS-LV-4 | KS | Leavenworth |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
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| Last week's rains helped with surface moisture and seed beds but ponds and streams are still low. |
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| 4/7/2026 | KY-CB-10 | KY | Campbell |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
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| It is still mildly wet. The lawns are growing vigorously. The vegetation is rapidly blooming and the trees are rapidly becoming leafed. The lawn was a bit mushy for mowing yesterday. |
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| 4/7/2026 | KY-MF-1 | KY | Menifee |
Mildly Dry
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Agriculture
Water Supply & Quality
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| Beginning supplemental watering in drier parts of the garden on southwest facing slopes. Low-lying areas of pasture remain wet with some mud. Grasses and legumes are growing rapidly. Small seasonal stream continues to flow but is lower than typical for this time of year. |
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| 4/7/2026 | MA-NF-1 | MA | Norfolk |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Relief, Response & Restrictions
Tourism & Recreation
Water Supply & Quality
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| Frequent rainfall has kept conditions near normal for this time of year. Trees are starting to bud and lawns are beginning to green up for the season. Some early spring plants have begun to bloom. Ground is unfrozen and somewhat moist. Levels on ponds and lakes are fairly high and no water use restrictions are in place. |
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| 4/7/2026 | NY-WY-11 | NY | Wyoming |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
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| Cloudy and cold with moderate winds, then cloudy and cold overnight with moderate winds and scattered snow. The high temperature was around forty degrees, and the low around twenty degrees Fahrenheit. Songbirds are eating a feederful every other day. More small flocks of Canadian Geese are present. Garlic Mustard, Dead Nettle, Wild leeks, Serviceberry buds and Trout Lily leaves are appearing. Spring Peepers (Hyla crucifer) are singing. More flocks of small song birds are appearing. The local intermittent stream and nearby trout stream are flowing at spring levels. |
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| 4/7/2026 | NC-DH-48 | NC | Durham |
Mildly Dry
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| While we received 0.37 inches yesterday, the total amount of precipitation is still low compared to our averages. The ground was damp before this past rain event in shaded areas but cracks were showing in areas that receive a lot of sunshine. Last month's rainfall amount measured 1.59 inches; about 38% of average.
The vegetation is not displaying any signs of dry conditions but the temperatures have not been high enough to dry the soil out.
The Red-wing Blackbirds have left the area. Some Starlings and Grackles have remained and the Red-Wing Blackbirds have flocked with them during the winter months. A number of Sparrows are still in the area. A Blue Bird pair have laid a clutch of 4 eggs about 5 days ago. There are reports of Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds in the area but we have not seen any visit our feeder. |
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| 4/7/2026 | OH-MM-13 | OH | Miami |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
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| This area came into April with just a slight plus in rainfall. So far this month, my neighborhood has been on the edges of the storms and fronts. Everything is lush and green and the small animals and birds are scurrying about. |
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| 4/7/2026 | TX-BST-121 | TX | Bastrop |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Society & Public Health
Water Supply & Quality
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| Recent rains have helped pastures, but full bloom wildflowers nor seen. Too little too late for some wildflowers. Due to March 17 freeze, many vegetables must be replanted. New leaf and flowers in citrus lost in freeze. New growth on red bud and crape myrtle lost in freeze now recovering. Due to lack of pollen and nectar sours, must supplement feed honey bees. Milkweed blooming.
Burn Ban remains, although it may be lifted due to recent rains. People here love to set fire to stuff, Bastrop, the combustible county. Additional(5,000gal) rain water harvesting tanks now all full. Total 10,000 gal.
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| 4/7/2026 | TX-HNT-11 | TX | Hunt |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
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| 3.45” of rain last week. 0.83” of evapotranspiration. Temperatures continued to be a bit above normal - daytime highs generally in the 80s but cooled off this past weekend with the cool front to 60s. Morning lows generally in the 60s except the weekend where it went down in the 40s. D1 drought status remains. The rain last week came in 2 different storms - neither severe - the majority was the second storm giving almost 3” in about 5 hours. The rain soaked into the ground nicely and dried rather quickly (about 2 days). Total rain for month of March was 2.39” and 3.96” of evapotranspiration. Plants and wildlife all doing well - no supplemental watering needed with the rain. Picking up my Go ‘n Grow pack of native plants for my new bed next weekend! This will be my third native plant bed for my yard. “My native plants bring all the pollinators to the yard. And they’re like it’s better than yours.” (You have to sing that to the tune of Milkshake.) Attended the drought webinar last Wednesday - really great session - encourage anyone who didn’t catch the live event to watch the recording. Story for the week was the much appreciated rainfall. |
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| 4/7/2026 | WI-MW-18 | WI | Milwaukee |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
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| Above normal temperatures and very wet with minor yard flooding.
(01 APR to 06 APR)
Precipitation for the period was 2.90”. +2.27” for the period.
Cal yr 9.06, +1.52” above annual seasonal normal.
Snow: 0.0” -0.8” for the period.
Snow Season: 47.1”. -3.9” above for the season
Snow Depth Average: 0.0”.
Frost Depth under sod: 0.0”
Frost Depth under bare ground: 0.0”
Temperatures averaged 43.8 degrees, +2.0 above normal for the period.
Soil temperatures, for the period, at 2” have averaged 40.3 degrees, 4” average is 42.2 degrees, 8” average is 44.0 degrees and 20” average is 44.3 degrees. +6.0 overall increase, on average, from the previous period.
A usual Spring is here this season at the station with warmer weather, wetter soils and above normal rain with plants greening up quite a bit and a few flowers blooming.
Many birds have returned to the feeder with Starlings, Robins, Grackles and the spring migratory birds have returned. Squirrels and bunny rabbits are out and the chipmunks have returned as well.
Trees are budding and grass has greened up, may need to mow if temperatures warm up.
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| 4/7/2026 | WY-GS-70 | WY | Goshen |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
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| Very dry soil conditions. Dust blows regularly and the roads are washboardy. I dug some post holes and the dirt is dry 2'down before any soil moisture appears. Farmers working their fields produce lots of dust. Snowpack is at record lows and irrigation outlook is for reduced irrigation water. |
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| 4/7/2026 | WY-PT-40 | WY | Platte |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
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| Ground is cracking around trees grass is brown and dry |
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