Current drought status D0 - ABNORMALLY DRY at KY-CB-10.  During the past 45 days had only 45 percent of the normal rainfall.  At Ky-CB-10, temperature have been about 2 degrees F above normal this summer so far.  Over the past 2 weeks, the diurnal temperature range at KY-CB-10 has been relatively large and is even larger range than CVG airport slightly lower minimums and high maximums with indicates drought.  The grass is brown in about 75 percent of the areas and has started to become a little greener the past several days.  Approximately 10 to 15 percent of the trees are still showing signs of some wilting and drought stress.  Soil is pulling away from foundations.  The pond level is lower than normal.  Streamflow is very low and almost nonexistent today in Campbell County except the Licking and Ohio Rivers.  There are numerous ants on the sidewalks.  Several bushes at the house across the street were very brown and almost dead several days ago are becoming lot greener this morning.  Either they had watered their bushes yesterday or the rain had helped some.  Several trees in the neighborhood have completely lost their leaves and are now bare.  Several more trees are beginning to lose their leaves. The 1/2" of showers several days ago eliminated the lawn fire hazard for a few days and we got around 3/10" of rain today which help alleviate the drought conditions a little.  Had to water my newly 4 month old planted trees and the 4 month old newly planted grass the past few days.  I expect a high water bill during the next billing cycle.  

Currently Hamilton County in Ohio is near normal to mildly wet and is not in drought.  Due to heavy rain, Boone county came out of drought yesterday and drought status now is NONE.  Kenton and Campbell County went from D1 - MODERATE DROUGHT to D0 - ABNORMALLY DRY due to the rains the past week; but were not enough to eliminate the drought conditions.