| 8/29/2026 | AZ-MH-25 | AZ | Mohave |
Moderately Dry
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| Moderate Drought D1 status along the lower Colorado River valley. Extreme heat warnings this past week w/ high temps ranging from 115F-120F. |
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| 8/29/2026 | CO-AR-413 | CO | Arapahoe |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| CY 64% of normal; WY 59% normal. Even with hand-watering trees when there is no rain, trees are showing drought stress (leaf scorch, early fall color). We also must watch our water usage since we are under drought restrictions, but watering trees is the landscape priority.
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| 8/29/2026 | CO-DG-176 | CO | Douglas |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
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| Trees, especially maples, are showing burn edges. Some are putting out new leaves this late. Some trees turning early Vegetables crops late. |
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| 8/29/2026 | CO-EL-96 | CO | Elbert |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Some light precipitation during the last week. Creeks are still mostly dry. Natural grass has greened up and I had to mow for the first time in weeks. Watering and burning restrictions continue to be in effect. |
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| 8/29/2026 | CO-EP-488 | CO | El Paso |
Near Normal
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| we are getting small amounts of rain, .10-.20 almost daily.the temps are starting to cool down below 90
Some might say we are mildly dry |
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| 8/29/2026 | CO-LK-1 | CO | Lake |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
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| Between the very low winter snowfall, very early snowmelt this spring, extremely abnormally low snowpack on the mountains, wildfire activity, hot summer temperatures, and noticeably below normal precip every month after February, we are certainly experiencing severely dry conditions. |
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| 8/29/2026 | CT-NL-29 | CT | New London |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation
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| 1.16" of rain fell last week. So far during August 8.86" of rain fell at my location. Normal is about 3.5". It has been a wet month. Rainy wx has limited out door recreation, but eliminated the dry conditions. |
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| 8/29/2026 | DE-NC-10 | DE | New Castle |
Near Normal
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| Springs flowing normally. |
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| 8/29/2026 | DE-SS-3 | DE | Sussex |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| 8/23-8/29 received .82" for the week (4 events). Morris Branch has mud but no water. Vegetation green and growing. A recent visit to Trap Pond State park showed Racoon Pond's level is down over 3 feet and the spill way is dry. |
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| 8/29/2026 | FL-AL-50 | FL | Alachua |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Lake Alice and retention ponds at or just above average. Plants and lawns thriving. Not hand watering annuals. |
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| 8/29/2026 | FL-MA-10 | FL | Manatee |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Energy Fire
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| FIRE - Somewhat dismissed this week due to over an inch of precipitation for the week. However, this came in two days, meaning we had 5 days with sunshine and no precipitation. From our location, we could see and hear thunder and lightening each day, but this rain and storms were concentrtated in the interior part of the state.
ENERGY - A bright spot for the week and energy consumption. Highs and Lows were mostly within Average Temperature ranges allowing the AC unit to get some breaks during the nighttime.
GENERAL - It is extremely interesting to witness the weather pattern that has developed this Summer: Rain and Thunderstorms all developing and raining in the Interior part of the state. When we have had rain, it has been gneerated by storms coming from either the SSE or WSW. No matter the origin, we would always accept any moisture no matter the source or direction. |
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| 8/29/2026 | ID-ID-12 | ID | Idaho |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Still no moisture. Hot days. 2x over 100 this week. Nights r getting cooler. Cattle r out of browse. Ponds and rivers r lowest seen in years. Creeks r mostly dry to a trickle. Plants and trees r showing significant signs of heat and drought stress. Wind fire smoke is still intermittent but prevalent. |
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| 8/29/2026 | IL-AD-16 | IL | Adams |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| A week with no rain and low humidity levels and things are drying up quickly. turf grasses were greening back up and standing up and now laying back down again with no rain. Forecast has a heat wave moving in now as well for a few days. |
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| 8/29/2026 | IL-BN-19 | IL | Boone |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Well after our wet spell over the first few weeks of August, the expected dry weather returned as only a trace of rain was recorded this week. The soil dried out pretty fast with mostly low humidity and sunny days, returning the soil to a mildly dry condition. Waterways have cleared up and dropped to their normal levels. Trees do look good and area lawns are green and still growing pretty fast. At one point so fast I was beginning to wonder if all the excess CO2 in our air was having an effect. Haven't seen too much wildlife prepping for Autumn yet but I did see a large and unfortunate turtle that failed in its effort to cross our busy road. For me it's always a sad sight to see. While I had no interest in feasting on it numerous and obviously hungry crows had other plans and were busy trying to snatch morsels between the passing cars. It was quite the busy and raucous gathering. |
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| 8/29/2026 | IL-LG-2 | IL | Logan |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| After abundant rain & very wet conditions in mid-August, a dry stretch has started setting up. Around 1.00" of rain has been measured the past 12 days. This hasn't impacted the garden or grasses yet due to over 5.00" of rain the first half of August. However, stress may be more apparent in the coming weeks since no appreciable rain is expected the upcoming week with temperatures well into the 90s. |
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| 8/29/2026 | IL-ME-15 | IL | Menard |
Near Normal
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Agriculture Energy Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| We have received no rain this past week. Our overflow pond has a drying mud appearance. Each morning has had dew in the grass and several times heavy condensation on rain gauge and cars. Our farmer cut and baled the third cutting of alfalfa. He only had six big bales on the front and back fields. The third cutting is usually less than previous ones. My garden continues with tomatoes and peppers. The sweet potato vines would like to take over the garden but I move them back to their own area. Soybeans are still dark green and hedge-like. Corn ears have darkening silks. We are still working to keep up on weekly moving of yard and pastures. Rabbits have little ones of which our dog has killed two or three. We don't see deer very often and when we do the doe has a single older fawn with her. I think she has separated from the male fawn. We see a lone deer more often. A skunk has been busy digging for grubs in the yard and orchard. I notice that the cone-shaped digging show dark, loamy soil so we still have moisture down there. I have seen/heard two small flocks of Canada geese (7 in one, 10-12 in the other) flying SE in the morning. On Wed. 8/26 11:19am we received an emergency peak time event email from Ameren asking us to reduce our energy use from 3-7pm that day. They said there was to be an unexpected high demand on the grid during that time. We complied. This week has given us some lovely early fall days without such high humidity and temperatures. |
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| 8/29/2026 | IN-AL-42 | IN | Allen |
Mildly Wet
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| Turf grasses still green and growing. Landscape plants thriving. Creek out back, normally bone dry this time of year, still has at least a trickle. |
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| 8/29/2026 | IN-DV-1 | IN | Daviess |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Earlies rains were so intense that a lot ran off, so today we are a bit dry. Crops are pretty well matured, so this weather is helping with the drying process. |
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| 8/29/2026 | IN-FL-3 | IN | Fulton |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| I have recorded 0.45 inches of rain during the past 7-days.Crops and grass are lush and green. |
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| 8/29/2026 | KS-DG-84 | KS | Douglas |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Rainfall normal for year; vegetation mostly green |
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| 8/29/2026 | KS-JO-134 | KS | Johnson |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| The week has been sunny, in the upper 80s, with no precipitation to speak of. |
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| 8/29/2026 | KY-CM-3 | KY | Cumberland |
Moderately Dry
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Agriculture
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| .18 inches of rain during the first day this period followed by six dry days. |
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| 8/29/2026 | LA-AS-20 | LA | Ascension Parish |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| I have noticed that during this lack of rainfall, some plants are experiencing a lull in flower production, especially on lantana and hibiscus plants. My efforts to irrigate seem lacking as far as continuous flower production. But I’m only trying to keep the plants alive until the next rain, not necessarily make them thrive. This area’s borrow pits, or small ponds in neighboring yards, have lost at least one foot of water through evaporation and lack of rain. But Mother Nature had other ideas and began to provide daily rain events to help towards ending the mini drought we’ve been experiencing. The forecast is for a 30-40% chance of rain every day next week! We have a few migrating hummers in the area this week enjoying the fresh sugar water that is waiting for them. |
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| 8/29/2026 | ME-KX-6 | ME | Knox |
Severely Dry
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| Nearing end of second month with very little rain. Lawn and garden all brown, nothing in the hay fields for farmers to cut, very unusual. |
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| 8/29/2026 | 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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| no rain 5 days |
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| 8/29/2026 | MA-BE-21 | MA | Berkshire |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| With 0.53" of rain over the past week, soil is very workable, not too dry or wet. Rivers and streams are running at normal levels. Lawns are all green, and gardens are doing well. Deer are active, along with the bears. Nut gathering activity is on the increase for the squirrels and chipmunks. Hummingbirds are still visiting my gardens. Pollinators are numerous. |
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| 8/29/2026 | MI-DC-10 | MI | Dickinson |
Severely 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 8/23 - 8/29 2026 ----- EARLY MORNING TEMPERATURES at Data collection: Aurora: 54, 46, 51, 64, 59, 51, 55 & Kingsford : 53, 46, 51, 63, 59, 49, 58, -----Highs this week still in the high 70's& low 80's------ WATER CONTENT IN THE GAUGE: AURORA - T, 0, 0, .05, .03, 0, 0 Total= ..08" KINGSFORD - T, 0, 0, .04, .04, 0, 0 Total= .08 ----- SNOWFALL- Aurora and Kingsford : nothing no snow ----- MENOMINEE RIVER: Water levels all week at a low summer water height and river flow in the mid to low 800's and one low of 783 Cubic Feet per Second at data collection. Water height has been low over the summer so far -----US DROUGHT MONITOR: Both Florence and Dickinson Counties are in the severe stage. Grass has make a slight greening of grass but not by much as I report on here Saturday morning that .70 of rain last week helped some. We did get a sprinkling this a.m. but quit within a minute or two with the hope of receiving more today----- WILDFIRE RISK: even with the severe drought we are experiencing, the risk is at Medium for Florence and Dickinson counties and currently there is rain covering the west and central portion of Wisconsin and UP border moving east and with this hopeful rain today, we see both the drought and wildfire risk drop a peg or two.----- AIR QUALITY: This week excellent no smoke ------TOURISM: Still strong but see retired seniors towing or driving campers from both the east and west directions. Boat towing same as last week, meh, low. BUSINESS: Local and regional traffic for construction has been good. Lots of heavy equipment moving through but loggers this week, low. farm machinery picked up a little. Local contractors, about the same as last week, steady. -----WILDLIFE: Deer are still running around. Velvet on the bucks antlers, all deer I have seen are honey blonde both male and female, no swamp deer, geese have been flying back and forth up and down the river, some headed south. On Monday evening the 24th, NightHawks, hundreds of them flying overhead and under them, seagulls also making their way south. Squirrels and rabbits active and chipmunks as well. PLANTS: Wednesday morning, I noticed tree tops of some trees changing color. Red, orange and yellow are very noticeable. My red Maple, shedding like crazy and is 1/2 red. My sugar maple is still green. One of my oaks is already dropping dried up brown leaves. And my sumac are starting to have patches of red and gold. ----- That's all I have for this week. Enjoy your weekend! |
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| 8/29/2026 | MI-RS-11 | MI | Roscommon |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| We've had 3/4" of rain in the last week. We are a little dry but not too bad. |
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| 8/29/2026 | MI-WS-11 | MI | Washtenaw |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Big storm the beginning of the week gave a lot of much needed moisture. since then, we just had a few light rains. Grass is green, trees and shrubs looked good but am starting to see a little color change as autumn approaches. Late summer flowers blooming, hearng birds, seeing squirrels. |
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| 8/29/2026 | MI-WY-125 | MI | Wayne |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Near normal conditions. |
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| 8/29/2026 | MN-IT-109 | MN | Itasca |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Conditions continue. Enough rain to keep grass and plants green but not enough to go far into the soil or refill ponds and lakes. Garden plants, vegetables, still need water every couple days. Less heat now at end of summer is helping. |
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| 8/29/2026 | MN-YM-18 | MN | Yellow Medicine |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| Many corn and soybean fields are maturing and turning yellow. River and lake levels continue to lower. In some areas smaller creeks such as Plum Creek near Walnut Grove are only a few inches deep. See photos. Curtis Lake also continues to lower. See photo of culvert on Curtis Lake. Rain is needed to begin replenishing sub soil for next year. |
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| 8/29/2026 | MO-CN-10 | MO | Clinton |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| Report for 23 Aug 26 to 29 Aug 26. There was 1 day of precipitation during the week, for a trace. The total precipitation for August is 4.02 inches. The historical average for August is 3.70 inches. The current condition is Mildly Dry. |
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| 8/29/2026 | MO-NW-4 | MO | Newton |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Moderate to Severely dry, Vegetation is crisp and brown, leaves are falling from high temperatures and. drought conditions. Shoal Creel is low. Fire danger is high. Farm crops have been adversely affected and harvest will be low. |
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| 8/29/2026 | MO-SG-5 | MO | Ste. Genevieve |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| Got lucky this week with a small storm providing almost 1.25” of rain. Just what was needed for crops, pastures, lawns and gardens. Corn harvest is ramped up, same for second cutting of grass hay. Temps were tolerable this week. |
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| 8/29/2026 | NH-GR-1 | NH | Grafton |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Still very dry here. Lake level very low as is the river. Streams mostly dried up. Still watering annuals daily.
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| 8/29/2026 | NM-BR-239 | NM | Bernalillo |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Energy Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| The overall hot and dry weather continues with only 0.01 inch of rain this week. The dewpoint has been mostly below normal for all of August. The temperature has been above normal each day since July 23. The soil is dry with blowing dust occuring during thunderstorm outflow wind. The above normal heat is causing high evaporation, dryness, and high energy use. Field flowers are few. Tomatoes are not doing well in this heat. There are no crickets or moths. The Sandia Mountains are dry and dusty with little plant and grass growth, and there is a forest fire in the Manzano mountains. Water flow in the Rio Grande River in Albuquerque is zero. Our water supply is adequate but with mandatory watering restrictions in place. |
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| 8/29/2026 | NY-JF-48 | NY | Jefferson |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture Water Supply & Quality
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| Report for the week of August 22 through August 29, 2026. This week has been a little wet with 2.37” of rain. We received 1.15 on 8/24 and 1.16 on 8/25. The week has been fairly cool with highs in the lower 70’s and the lows in the 50’s. The grass and trees are green and lush. The grass is usually brown at this time of year. The garden is doing well and a lot of vegetables are being harvested. Still mowing 2x per week. St. Lawrence River level and water temperature recorded at the NOAA Station located on Wellesley Island near Alexandria Bay, NY. Level at 09:36 is 246.21 feet, 38.4 inches and 72.1°F. |
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| 8/29/2026 | NY-WY-11 | NY | Wyoming |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Mostly cloudy and warm with light winds, becoming mostly sunny, then partly cloudy and cool overnight with light winds. The high temperature was around sixty nine degrees, and the low around forty eight 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. Thimbleberries are ripening. Some apples are ripening. All corn have silk and are beginning to tassel. Blackbirds are beginning to flock. The local intermittent stream is dried out and the nearby trout stream is flowing at late-summer levels. |
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| 8/29/2026 | NC-BC-105 | NC | Buncombe |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| we are out of official extremes drought and still with very warm temps and wind, very dry here. Creeks and streams still low, lots of wilting in the sun, brown grass. Leaves falling prematurely from trees. Fire danger on alert . Farmers doing the best they can |
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| 8/29/2026 | NC-CH-61 | NC | Chatham |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health Water Supply & Quality
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| Conditions here are heading back toward severely dry. We are still well behind the NOAA averages for our water year and region. Central NC overall has received rain that has eased the dryness somewhat. It has been a hot humid summer although most plants seem to be OK. A few leaves are starting to turn, but some trees are showing noticeable heat stress. People are out and about doing their errands and work in the mornings. The Haw River is at a low flow level and Jordon Lake water levels appear to be slowly declining. |
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| 8/29/2026 | NC-WK-185 | NC | Wake |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Near two inches rain all month kept the creek wet & slowly flowing most every day. Nearly ten inches rain in July. Soil moisture in back yard supporting increase in burrowing mammals ( unseen moles or shrews). This is the first year ever we had adult geese repeatedly foraging in the front yard so we curtailed feeding the song birds to discourage the geese from coming here to eat. |
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| 8/29/2026 | OK-PH-1 | OK | Pushmataha |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| A very hot and dry weather pattern remained over the area this week with only 0.06" inches of measurable rainfall being observed. I looked at how much rain I have recorded for August 2026, which is 0.17" inches, and it is officially my second driest rainfall total I have measured for any August since I started reporting precipitation amounts for cocorahs in 2014. Next, our soil conditions remain dry and sandy with no noticeable moisture in any of our topsoil. Our grasses, and trees remain in a stressed state at this time due to a lack of rain, and I have noticed that most of our local animal activity has been occurring in the morning and during the evenings. Lastly, It is my hope we can begin to bring in our cool Fall temperatures and hopefully some rainfall at some point in the future, however I glanced at the forecast for the next week and It appears hot temperatures and no rainfall will continue for sometime into the future. |
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| 8/29/2026 | OR-CC-88 | OR | Clackamas |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| First precip in a month. Despite drizzle this morning, only 0.03"- conditions are still tinder dry. Vegetation needs daily irrigation. |
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| 8/29/2026 | RI-KN-36 | RI | Kent |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| .23 inches of rain this past week. |
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| 8/29/2026 | RI-NW-18 | RI | Newport |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| The soil was fairly dry while working in new grass seed, but the lawn is still growing rapidly. The seasonal stream is down to a trickle. Norway Maple tree is dropping some leaves. |
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| 8/29/2026 | RI-PR-135 | RI | Providence |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation
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| With another 0.77” of rain earlier this week, conditions remain near normal for end of August. The Pascoag reservoir has held steady at 8’11” and is not quite overflowing the spillway. Canadian geese are getting noisy on the lake getting ready to migrate. We are also seeing the Bald Eagle, Blue heron and various hawks. We haven’t heard the Baltimore orioles for the last week or so, so they may have left for the season. The lawn is growing fast and needs mowing more than once per week. Our tomatoes continue to produce like crazy, another bumper crop. For flowers, the Rose of Sharon and Tree Hydrangea are in full bloom while we sadly cut our last gladiolus of the season for the vase in the kitchen. They are such great cut flowers. Fire danger is posted as Low at George Washington state campground. Boating and fishing continues on the lake but has slowed down a bit now that the local kids are back in school. |
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| 8/29/2026 | SC-AK-106 | SC | Aiken |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health
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| NWS KCAE COOP STATION GNTS1 ***LOCAL CONDITIONS REBOUND TO MILDLY WET DUE TO RECENT BENEFICIAL RAINFALL***MONTH-TO-DATE (MTD) RAINFALL = 7.62 INCHES, +2.67 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL...YEAR-TO-DATE (YTD) RAINFALL = 28.72 INCHES, -4.95 INCHES BELOW NORMAL (THROUGH 01SEP26).... |
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| 8/29/2026 | SC-RC-12 | SC | Richland |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
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| We've measured 0.25" over the last 7 days. Our soils are slightly moist and high temperatures have finally fallen below 90F. The lawn looks great, |
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| 8/29/2026 | TX-BXR-437 | TX | Bexar |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Energy Fire Plants & Wildlife Relief, Response & Restrictions
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| For the month of August 1.? inch of rain was reported in the San Antonio area. This is 1. inch less than the August historical average of 2.15 inches. Rain gauge total was 1.11 inch. The lack of rainfall for the month compounded with weeks of upper 90’s to over 100 degree temperatures created moderately to severely dry conditions in the San Antonio area. This resulted in more landscape watering and less water available for plants and wildlife. The Edwards Aquifer levels ranged from 638.28-652.10 ?? feet with an average of about 646.0 feet. The historical August aquifer average is 657.6 feet. Stage 3 Year Round watering restrictions were changed to Stage 2 early in the month. The region is still recovering from a five year drought. Wildfire threat was moderately to severely high with fires reported. Average low and high temperatures were 76 and 93 degrees, with low and high temperatures recorded at 72 and 97 degrees, respectively. Energy costs were higher due to extended hotter temperatures. |
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