9/25/2023 | AK-MS-12 | AK | Matanuska-Susitna |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife
| Quite a decrease in precipitation across this past week with just 0.43" to report across three days. However, overcast persisted and the humidity remained high leaving us with moss growing on everything! While the local moose are still hiding out I cannot keep my window feeder filled as the Chickadees and Red Breasted Nuthatches are ravenous although to be honest they are squirreling away most of the black oilers they take from the feeder. We saw a couple of mornings with sub-freezing lows and this always accelerates their winter preparations. A lot of the birch leaves have turned to their fall yellow/gold and many are already on the ground making for slippery walking when added to the almost saturated earth. With the advent of calendar fall the night skies are plenty dark to view aurora and other nighttime occurrences; I always enjoy this shift. Before long we'll be seeing the first snows although I hope they hold off until the ground really freezes to prevent that darn layer of ice from forming when it snows atop yet unfrozen earth. The snow line in the Talkeetna Mountains is dropping fairly quickly now... |
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9/25/2023 | CA-OR-67 | CA | Orange |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
| Partly cloudy, Cool, Calm |
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9/25/2023 | CO-CR-18 | CO | Crowley |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Relief, Response & Restrictions
| Feedlot dust hanging in the air. Moisture doesn't last long. Cottonwood leaves starting to turn yellow in spots. Fire watch warning a couple of days this last week. Nights pretty chilly, but warm to hot days. Enjoying not having to use the AC. |
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9/25/2023 | CO-DL-54 | CO | Delta |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
| Only a trace of rain last week. This station is still under 10% of a normal September of precip and there is no precip forecast through the end of the month. Trees and brush could be dryer so am still calling this "Moderately Dry". |
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9/25/2023 | CO-GR-52 | CO | Grand |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| It was a drier week but I think the soil condition is about normal for this time of year. |
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9/25/2023 | CT-NL-6 | CT | New London |
Mildly Wet
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| Seepage from a hill on my street is running again only happens when ground is very wet. Plus 5.79" of rain has fallen over the last two weeks. |
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9/25/2023 | FL-PN-99 | FL | Pinellas |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
| Our area received a little rain this past week, a total of 0.56” here in the coastal area of West Central Florida, but we remain well under our normal precipitation yearly total. Government authorities have begun to remind residents of our yearly, bi-weekly lawn watering restrictions. Tourist activity remains high. |
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9/25/2023 | GA-CO-3 | GA | Cook |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife
| 6" soil temp 76.8 F. /// 6" soil moisture 20 %
Wet lands drying up. only standing water in low lying areas. Water table lowering from normal |
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9/25/2023 | IL-CK-336 | IL | Cook |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| This week my station received 0.21 inches of rain, down from 1.89 inches last week. Over the past 4 weeks my station has received 2.82 inches of rain. Conditions are currently Near Normal. The rain from last week really perked up the plants and trees. A few trees had begun to drop dry leaves, but that has stopped. I didn’t need to water my community garden plot for the entire week. Even yesterday, the plants weren’t dry looking (but I watered anyway). The top of the soil had dried out, but it was moist again about a quarter of an inch down. The porch slugs are back and I’m seeing some baby slugs. The hummingbirds are still drinking from our feeder. I’m still seeing bees and bumblebees and a few flies. Smaller birds are surprisingly scarce. The squirrels are building nests again. |
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9/25/2023 | IL-DP-189 | IL | Du Page |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| Conditions appear near normal/average in my neighborhood. Areas of new grass that were previously browning have started to turn green again and the lawn is growing. No particularly soggy parts of the yard despite several rounds of rainfall. |
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9/25/2023 | IL-JS-3 | IL | Jasper |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| Beans harvested. Air full of pieces of bean stalks. Air quality was bad during harvesting. Ground was wet under combine where it had been. Surprised. Glad to have harvested done. Hay also is done. |
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9/25/2023 | IL-LE-23 | IL | Lee |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
| Rain showers over the past week have put soil conditions at "normal" for this time of year. Crops continue to dry down for fall harvest. Some trees are dropping leaves, silver maples and cottonwood species. |
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9/25/2023 | IL-MY-1 | IL | Montgomery |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife
| Been very few breaks in harvest activities locally, picking is nearly 100% completed and tilling has started. Have had only .34” rain for September, the last decent rain fell almost a month ago, .59” on August 26. Ground is very dry and machinery is kicking up huge dust clouds. Gave up pulling weeds, ground just won’t let go of the roots. Would like to dig and divide hostas and tiger lilies but the dirt is dry and hard as concrete, will wait until we get some rain so I can use a shovel instead of a pickaxe. Likewise, burning a large brush pile accumulated over the summer will have to wait, much too dry to risk a fire right now. On the plus side I’ve only mowed grass once the entire month of September. |
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9/25/2023 | IN-MD-40 | IN | Madison |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
| This location has picked up no rain since September 13th, and only 0.19" since August 18th. Grass is mostly dry and brittle, crops are already dried out, and streams are very low |
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9/25/2023 | IN-MR-177 | IN | Marion |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| Watering garden more than usual for this time of year |
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9/25/2023 | IN-PK-4 | IN | Pike |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| It's beginning to get very dry now, with no significant rain here in weeks. The lawn is pretty brown and not much is growing. The annual flowers are dead. Perennials are struggling. Some trees are dropping some leaves early, and some like sycamore and river birch are completely brown and dropping most leaves on drier sites. The creek is down to pools, and ponds are down by a few feet. Pastures are brown and eaten to bare dirt in some areas. Could be combine fires soon. |
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9/25/2023 | IA-BT-11 | IA | Benton |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
| At last the area received an amount of rain to write home about. Still it was less than areas to the north but we're not complaining. It has brightened up the lawns, late varieties of grain in the fields tho too late to change yields. Lots of farm field work was accomplished this past week prior to the weekend rains. Field fires were a big worry at that time. |
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9/25/2023 | KS-BU-46 | KS | Butler |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture
| Trees Are Stress. So is Soybean crops. And some is dying. |
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9/25/2023 | KY-CB-10 | KY | Campbell |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife
| There has been only 0.80" of rainfall for the last 30 day period from 8/27/2023 thru 9/25/2023 at KY-CB-10. There is only standing pools of water and approximately 0.1 CFS of flow at the 15 to 20 sq. mi. Dogsworth watershed in Campbell County at KY1998 Industrial Road and Route 8. The pond level is low with most of the local streams completely dried up. The lawns are now about 80 percent brown. Grass growth is becoming very slow again after increasing the week before. Lawncare companies are raising only dust when they mow lawns which are now not growing. The soil is pulling away from the foundations and sidewalks. Many of the trees are starting to loose their leaves. There are numerous ants on the sidewalks. There are cracks in the local roadway ditches and in many front lawns. Based on these observations, the drought status of Campbell County is D0 - ABNORMALLY DRY - BEGINNING OF DROUGHT. Campbell County entered D0 drought category yesterday on Sunday September 24, 2023. If there is not a significant rainfall event this week, a fire hazard of lawn fires will develop this week for cigarette butts and grill fires. Good news, there is a significant amount of rain in the forecast for Campbell County during the middle of this week.
Based on the following information Campbell County is only in the D0 category: 1) 90 day rainfall 9.40" which is 90 percent normal. 2) 60 day rainfall 3.79" which is 60 percent normal. 3) 30 day rainfall 0.80" which is less than 1" on the gauge and meets the D0 category. Campbell county is not in D1 MODERATE DROUGHT category yet because the 60 day and 90 precipitation deficits are not severe enough yet to meet the moderate drought category. |
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9/25/2023 | KY-KN-15 | KY | Kenton |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| I just dug three holes in my garden, each to a depth of 14 inches. The soil is powder dry. Area plants look stressed and dry, and leaf yellowing and drooping is evident wherever you look. |
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9/25/2023 | ME-SM-3 | ME | Somerset |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| 1.33" rain for week. Bee dearth - fall asters only major pollen source remaining. |
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9/25/2023 | ME-WL-33 | ME | Waldo |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| Everything has dried out a bit in Palermo and iin Northport, ME. The last waves of rain clearly did saturate Northport, though, to judge from how long the ditches and culverts were running high until Saturday. |
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9/25/2023 | MD-BL-25 | MD | Baltimore |
Severely Wet
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife
| Well we got the rain we needed 1.91 inches.The sun is trying to break through I don't know if will or not I just hope it does.Plants are well an fire danger is low. |
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9/25/2023 | MA-ES-12 | MA | Essex |
Severely Wet
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| Another 2.50+ inches of rain the past week. Ground is saturated. Trees are starting their color transition especially the swamp maples. Most of the birds have strangely disappeared with just a few squirrels around and many chipmunks stashing food for the winter. Gardens and lawns doing well with all the rain. Local brook running a bit below bankfull. |
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9/25/2023 | MA-NF-68 | MA | Norfolk |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| Leaves have not turned color, still green. grass seems to have a little of underlying brown, but mostly green. no puddling.apples are ripening. |
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9/25/2023 | MA-PL-48 | MA | Plymouth |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| With 6.32 inches of rain so far this month,it's wetter than normal.The grass is still green and growing and the trails around town have large puddles.Fortunately, the rain has come in steady amounts without any flooding. |
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9/25/2023 | MA-WR-41 | MA | Worcester |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| 2.58 inches of rain during the past week, local streams and ponds a little above normal, garden winding down will pick last peppers this week, last hummingbird of the season passed by Thursday morning on its way south. |
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9/25/2023 | MI-KZ-31 | MI | Kalamazoo |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
| Precipitation is coming at a nice rate. Everything is looking good. Lakes at normal levels where they should be. Crops are drying down for harvest. |
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9/25/2023 | MI-WY-33 | MI | Wayne |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture
| Digging potatoes and the ground did not have much moisture at six inches |
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9/25/2023 | MN-HB-16 | MN | Hubbard |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
| There has been over 2 inches of rain in the past 2 days. Plants perked up, deer are eating the acorns. Over the past week, the wetland continued to be dry and the fallen leaves were very dry. |
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9/25/2023 | MN-IT-38 | MN | Itasca |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Fire
| Despite 2.50" of rain in the last 3 days the ground has absorbed it completely and I would say conditions are very near to normal. |
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9/25/2023 | MN-LK-5 | MN | Lake |
Severely Wet
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General Awareness
| We now can say without the slightest doubt that after 6+" of rain and still raining, we have NO drought or abnormally dry conditions. Quite the opposite! |
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9/25/2023 | MO-BN-50 | MO | Boone |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| Since there has been only 0.26 inch of rain for the month of September 2023 and only 0.63 inch since 14 August 2023 across the Ash Street Garden, the garden condition monitoring is now estimated 60% moderately DRY an 40% mildly dry. For the gardens still producing vegetables, gardeners are again watering their plots every two or three days. |
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9/25/2023 | NE-LA-19 | NE | Lancaster |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| Below Normal precipitation for the last three weeks. Some isolated showers around this weekend but none hit my house. Soil and subsoil are dry. Plants are dry. Surface water is dropping. Grass fire north of Lincoln this week. |
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9/25/2023 | NJ-HN-31 | NJ | Hunterdon |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
| all streams and river slightly above normal |
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9/25/2023 | NM-DA-371 | NM | Dona Ana |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
| We did receive about a half inch of precip this past week which did put a bit of moisture in the ground. I haven't seen much of a plant response yet as most of the grass is still pretty dry. There was a bit of standing water for a few hours but it was absorbed rapidly. Overall, the longer term conditions are still pretty dry as we are substantially behind our long-term average rainfall year to date. |
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9/25/2023 | NM-GR-28 | NM | Grant |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| .28 inches of rain last week. Nice and green here for a change. Roses are coming out again. Snake weed blooming. |
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9/25/2023 | NY-ES-6 | NY | Essex |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
| The near-by stream is still very high, especially for September. Parts of my lawns and fields have saturated soils. |
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9/25/2023 | NY-OR-23 | NY | Orange |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| lot's of water in low lying areas |
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9/25/2023 | NY-SF-92 | NY | Suffolk |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness Water Supply & Quality
| Off-shore storms and hurricanes bring rain to our coast areas. We’ve had a rainy spell with close to 2 inches of rain in last 48+ hours. Some strong winds at times and street flooding in areas close to the bay. Beach flooding as well. Everyone is cautioned to be aware of rip currents. |
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9/25/2023 | NY-WY-11 | NY | Wyoming |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
| Cloudy and warm with light winds and scattered light rain, then mostly cloudy overnight. The high temperature was around fifty seven degrees, and the low around fifty one degrees Fahrenheit. Songbirds are eating consistently. Gardens need watering, vegetable production is poor. Jerusalem Artichokes, Purple Asters and Goldenrod are in full bloom. Apples are ripening. Canadian Geese flocks are forming. Early corn is being harvested. Woodland undergrowth is dying back. Close to 75 percent of trees are getting leaf color, some leaves are falling. |
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9/25/2023 | NC-HN-30 | NC | Henderson |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
| 7 days without measurable rain - grasses starting to dry |
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9/25/2023 | NC-MS-19 | NC | Madison |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| We had no rain in the past week but temps have been cooler. Lower humidity meant less moisture in the air. Water levels have dropped some but creeks and springs that supply our water and livestock watering tanks is still good. Risk of fire is higher. Our pastures, hay fields and Christmas Tree fields are still green. |
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9/25/2023 | OH-CK-13 | OH | Clark |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
| New fall landscape plantings are requiring more frequent watering. Several established deciduous trees on our property required watering this past week due to signs of stress. River Birch trees in our yard have already lost 1/3 of their leaves. Lawns are drying out with brown areas expanding unless shaded. Local soybean crops are almost completely yellow and corn crops are not far behind. Local rivers and streams are all lower than normal for this time of year. |
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9/25/2023 | OH-ST-11 | OH | Stark |
Mildly Dry
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Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
| Plants and grasses turning brown due to lack of water. |
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9/25/2023 | OH-WS-12 | OH | Washington |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health Water Supply & Quality
| Conditions remain quite cloudy, nimbostratus clouds, possible spin offs from Hurricane on East Coast. No Rain.
Cool temperatures. Currently 61 degrees. Wind: CALM.
Leaves beginning to change on trees, many dropping. Lawns beginning to turn brown due to lack of rain. Dusty conditions due to lack of rain and pollen count appears to be up as well. |
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9/25/2023 | OK-MY-10 | OK | Mayes |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
| We received 2.20" of rain last week to improve our conditions somewhat. The grass and surrounding vegetation has begun to green up, but we could use more rain to get us back to normal. |
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9/25/2023 | PA-WT-18 | PA | Westmoreland |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| its all normal that I know of here.nothing out of the ordinary, not even when Ophelia pushed through. |
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9/25/2023 | TN-BT-9 | TN | Blount |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| Vegetable, flower gardens, and dogwoods needing frequent watering. Ground very dry and hard, requiring watering before sprinkler stake can be put in the ground. Mowed areas along highways very dry and brown. |
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9/25/2023 | TX-CMR-85 | TX | Cameron |
Severely Dry
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| watering 3X week |
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