| 11/16/2025 | AL-WN-7 | AL | Winston |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health
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| Conditions are mildly dry despite cooler weather due to a lack of recent rainfall. This has increased dust activity and fire risk, especially with a recent significant leaf fall. Plants continue to enter dormancy. |
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| 11/16/2025 | AZ-CH-72 | AZ | Cochise |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| 0.00 precip this week. One puddle remains on road out to highway. Grass and weeds dried up. |
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| 11/16/2025 | AZ-NV-42 | AZ | Navajo |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| A quiet and dry week with high temperatures ranging from the upper 60's to low 70's. The high of the week was 72° on Tuesday. Lows were in the 30's except on Monday when the low was 26°. No precipitation fell last week. Besides being a little breezy on Friday, winds were light. Leaves continue to fall from the trees and shrubs with plants and grasses drying in the wildland areas. Besides a few birds, no wildlife seen. |
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| 11/16/2025 | AR-PL-1 | AR | Polk |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| Conditions are drier than usual. We’ve had no rain in the past two weeks and temperatures are above normal for the time of year. Highs have been running in the 70s most days with a maximum of 77 yesterday. Soil moisture and water body levels are below normal and some cool season crops in my garden are wilting in the afternoon heat. Local pastures look in pretty good condition though. The small stream nearby had some small pools from the last rain but they have dried up this week. There seems to be a moderate fire danger now that we’ve had a frost and there is a lot of brown vegetation and wind. |
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| 11/16/2025 | CA-HM-5 | CA | Humboldt |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| The atmospheric river went south this past week and only 0.47" of precipitation fell. Otherwise, warm, sunny days. Highs 60-67, lows 47-57. Ruth Lake now 76% on 11/11. Both the Mad River and the Eel had peak flow on 11/14, and have since receded some. No change in the California drought map, but with the most recent storms, probably will next week. Controlled burns have been happening the last few weeks on timber lands, tribal lands, park and forest service properties, now that wet weather has returned. Very rare bird showed up this past week, and continues daily, a leucistic Oregon Junco: it has circular white cheek patches on both sides of it's head, as well as a few sprinkles of white across the back of the neck area, and all within the black hood. Pretty cute. |
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| 11/16/2025 | CA-MD-42 | CA | Mendocino |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| rain again during the week. Now to ~80% of normal for the month. Not sufficient rain to cause slides or floods here. |
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| 11/16/2025 | CA-MD-45 | CA | Mendocino |
Near Normal
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Business & Industry Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| Another atmospheric river came through at the end of the week, dropping 1.80 inches in total. Again, still much less than the rain north of us, so very little damage here. A small amount of rain overnight, but another river on its way later today. It's good to see rain totals starting to add up, but we are still well below the total for last November. Ocean conditions calmed a bit and some fishing boats were out. Leaves still dropping and the winter mosses are starting to show up, along with a nice crop of local mushrooms for the foragers. Not quite as many tourists this week, but that will pick up as we get closer to Thanksgiving. |
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| 11/16/2025 | CA-SD-12 | CA | San Diego |
Near Normal
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Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Seasonal rains began this month with 1.08" for November so far. The land is now turning green from summer brown. Deciduous oaks are in full color, leaves are on the ground. Animals still visiting water placements in the yard. Still having warm sunny days and cool overnight temperatures, no frost. At this point little to no wildland fire danger exists. |
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| 11/16/2025 | CO-BO-568 | CO | Boulder |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| There has been zero precipitation during the first half of November. Moisture since October first is only 33% of normal. Temperatures have been above average and it has been windy most days further drying out the soil. I deep root watered my birch tree at the beginning of the month. Conditions now are moderately dry. |
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| 11/16/2025 | CO-EP-371 | CO | El Paso |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Since last reported on 11/10/2025, received zero precipitation. This is starting to sound like a broken record. Watering recently planted trees weekly to maintain root moisture. With a lack of continuous nights below freezing, the bugs have been active. Yellow jackets are swarming the water feature again like its summer. Topsoil sample taken today indicates dry dusty soil down to the 3.0" level. Pigeons I mentioned in previous report appear to have settled in the neighborhood as we see them multiple time a day especially at the water feature. Observed a large heard of Pronghorn on the south side of Woodmen Road yesterday about a mile west of Falcon. Wearing t-shirts outdoors as the weather has been so warm like it's early October. The large cottonwood tree in our neighbor's yard is finally dropping leaves. The remaining leaves are noisy when its windy as they are dry. With no precipitation the past week, I will maintain Moderately Dry Condition Scale. |
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| 11/16/2025 | CO-EP-449 | CO | El Paso |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| 32 days with no precip. Only 0.23" since Oct 1st, we should be around 1.5" since Oct 1st. Everything is very dry. We had four 70° days this week. Watered the lawn this weekend, so did many neighbors. The annuals that we covered during the hard freezes are still flowering. Some trees still have color on them and are slowly dropping their leaves. Still feels like early October. |
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| 11/16/2025 | CO-LR-1272 | CO | Larimer |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Still no precipitation. Hopeful we will get something this week. Plants are mostly dormant with a few grasses still showing some green. Winds have been moderate the past week so not as much evaporative drying as last week. Rivers remain below historical average discharge. Lots of birds at the birdbath in the yard. Elk are starting to gather into large herds for the migration down to lower elevations. Snow pack as measured by SnoTel sites reporting 21% of 30 year median for today in my 6-Digit HUC and 15% of 30 year median in my 8-Digit HUC. Zero precipitation MTD, 67% of PRISM Normal YTD, and 43% of PRISM Normal WYTD at my location. No fire restrictions in my area other than the permanent Stage 1 restrictions in the Estes Valley and in the National Park. I may have to downgrade my Condition assessment if the expected precipitation later this week does not occur. |
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| 11/16/2025 | CT-NL-56 | CT | New London |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| some rain-filled ponds are coming back to their usual levels, but most groundwater features (swamps and bogs) are sill lower than usual for this time of yearThere is enough soil moisture to enable normal growth of fall crops. |
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| 11/16/2025 | CT-NL-76 | CT | New London |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| We’re mostly back up to normal after the drought. The stream near the station is back up, and the lawn looks about normal for mid-November. The birdfeeder has been set out and the birds, mostly tufted titmice and downy woodpeckers, are enjoying it. The squirrels are also enjoying it. The garden is done for the winter but has yet to be cleaned. The jack-o’-lanterns have been removed after a squirrel tried to eat them but the uncarved ones are fine. The squirrels are everywhere this year and are burying nuts. Almost all of the leaves are down and the forest looks more like winter than fall now, even if the temperature is still higher. We had our first flurries this week on Tuesday, no accumulation. |
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| 11/16/2025 | CT-TL-27 | CT | Tolland |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Business & Industry Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Since the last report nearly three weeks ago, rainfall here has amounted to 3.16 inches, leaving conditions still near normal. Fire danger is moderate, and reservoir level near this site remains good. Animal activity has decreased in some categories with colder weather (as low as 23 yesterday morning). The one remaining plant that was producing – lettuce – in our garden has become shriveled with no longer harvestable leaves. Lawns in this neighborhood remain mostly green, with no ponding in low-lying parts of a nearby field.
Business at local retail stores remains brisk. |
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| 11/16/2025 | FL-AL-50 | FL | Alachua |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| Lake Alice water level continues to drop quite low. Plants needing watering. Lawn getting crispy, especially due to frost of this past week |
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| 11/16/2025 | FL-LN-47 | FL | Leon |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Upper Lake Lafayette back to a prairie lake, lower lake very low, Piney Z lake low, lawns brown without irrigation, need rain badly. |
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| 11/16/2025 | FL-MA-38 | FL | Manatee |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
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| The ground is getting hard and dry, very frequent watering of plants required. |
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| 11/16/2025 | FL-OR-40 | FL | Orange |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| Chamber of Commerce Wx all week. No rain. Mild temps.Minimum wind. |
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| 11/16/2025 | GA-DG-9 | GA | Dodge |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| No hint of rain over the past week, and everything is dry and dusty. Only 0.21" out of a normal 3" so far this month with November half-gone. Our first good cold snap saw temps in the 20's, also bringing low humidity leadings and with them fire danger warnings. There have been some end-of season wasps buzzing about on limited time waiting for the next freeze. |
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| 11/16/2025 | GA-FN-11 | GA | Fannin |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| The month is half over with less than 0.50" of precip. Dusty and dry .The fallen leaves are crispy. Deer numbering at a dozen with a least 4 antlered males roaming with. Actually had snowfall November 10th...A dusting that stayed around 24 hours due to cold temps. Red oaks seem to be the only trees holding on to their leaves now. Balmy breeze blowing this am with hopes of rain. |
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| 11/16/2025 | GA-MD-5 | GA | McDuffie |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Still dusty. |
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| 11/16/2025 | HI-KI-2 | HI | Kauai |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Relief, Response & Restrictions
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| Rain coming in weekly spurts, not a good sign for November/end-of-year rainfall accumulation ... temps falling slightly, that's always a good thing ... |
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| 11/16/2025 | ID-AD-9 | ID | Ada |
Mildly Dry
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| Nov. 8 - 16, 2025" A total of 0.03 inches of rain as brief showers on the 13-14th and 15-16th. Soil under large trees remains bone dry. Heavier, steady rain is needed soon, before soil becomes frozen. Occasional breezy periods but no strong winds. Beautiful golden yellow to orange-red foliage on trees and shrubs. Grass in the yards is still growing. Relatively warm days and nights for the time of year. When the early morning sun hits the trees, there is a blizzard of leaves.. Leaf raking and getting the gardens cleaned up and ready for winter have been the main yard activities lately. |
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| 11/16/2025 | ID-BK-27 | ID | Bannock |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Energy Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| General: We're a little down on moisture for November. We have had .02" of liquid, and last year we had had 7.1" of snow, totaling .89" liquid. Our 4 year average of liquid for November is 1.296 (sd=1.6), but we're only halfway through the month.
Agriculture: We're doing okay on moisture, and what looks like winter wheat is coming up.
Energy: Still on the positive side in terms of electrical generation. We created 46.22 kWHR yesterday (mostly sunny day) and only used 36.64 kWHR. Heaters are on, but it wasn't terribly cold or windy.
Fire: Pretty low risk right now.
Plants: Surprisingly, we've seen some new weed growth. Just saw a dandelion blooming in the driveway! Warm weather.
Water: Again, so far, so good. |
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| 11/16/2025 | IL-AD-16 | IL | Adams |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Energy Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| This DRY period has gone on way to long. Jumping to the Severely Dry condition. Not a good deal heading into winter. Leaves continue to fall. Most all Maples have now dumped their leaves. Oaks are barely beginning to start their slow release. So we will likely have some leaves bogged in with some snow late this season. |
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| 11/16/2025 | IL-CP-1 | IL | Champaign |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| Not a lot of changes in the past couple of weeks. October ended with precip 46 percent of normal. November isn't doing much better, currently 32 percent of normal. River is low, and pond has dropped as well. The photos below are of the north end of Homer Lake. Normally there is about 6-10 inches of water in these sections. I have never seen the lake this low in my 23 years here, even during the 2012 drought. If this were the growing season the category would certainly be severely dry. We sometimes can have wet Novembers here. Looks like a pattern change will bring some rain this week. We'll see how much. |
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| 11/16/2025 | IL-HY-30 | IL | Henry |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| No rain this past week has continued to lend to dry conditions, however I am going to keep this station at Mildly Dry. MTD is only -0.61" (51%) of 30 yr NOAA Norm, with WYTD -1.77" (56%). YTD is -4.59" (87%) which is considered Near Normal. Farmers have been working the fields and there has not been any dust, with some of the topsoil looking moist. However, area rivers are still low. There are some forecasted chances for rain this week, but if nothing materializes, it may cause me to move the scale next weekend. Most trees have lost all of their leaves, except for the nearby oaks that traditionally hold their leaves through December. I did one final mowing after a two-week absence because it had grown to the point where it needed it and to mulch leaves. Keeping fingers crossed for the rain. |
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| 11/16/2025 | IL-JF-18 | IL | Jefferson |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| The lack of rain and dry conditions continue. The peak autumn color has past. There were hundreds of American white pelicans on Rend Lake this week. Many were clustered at the islands on the lake. There are also many gulls, egrets, and blue herons on the lake. I saw two flocks of Canadian geese flying south. Despite the frost several of my rose bushes still have flowers/buds. |
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| 11/16/2025 | IL-JD-13 | IL | Jo Daviess |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Water Supply & Quality
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| Ponds are still dry, with no spring or tile water flowing.The well is still ok,the water is still aerated.The river and local creeks are dry or very low flow. Cover crops struggling to germinate or grow. |
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| 11/16/2025 | IL-KN-67 | IL | Kane |
Near Normal
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| Conditions are near normal for this time of year. Lawns are green. All trees and plants are in normal fall to pre-winter mode. |
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| 11/16/2025 | IL-MCH-13 | IL | McHenry |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| With just 0.02 inches of precip this week, the Drought Monitor showing my station in an Abnormally Dry area, and my station at 88% of normal compared to NOAA 30 year norms, I am setting the bar at Mildly Dry. The annuals and perennials are dead from the below freezing temps this week. Friday and Saturday saw high temps in low 60’s. My activities have been affected by spending 8 hours yesterday watering the perennials and shrubs, and canceling a bonfire/s’mores party due to high winds and dry conditions. Today NWS issued Elevated Risk of Fire today across entire Chicago area due to low relative humidity, gusty winds, and dry vegetation. |
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| 11/16/2025 | IL-MCL-2 | IL | McLean |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Heated bird baths are out, they have to be filled at least twice per day-the birds and wild critters appreciate the water since the small creek 1/2 mile from our house doesn't have much water in it. Crops are all out, fall field work, mostly anhydrous ammonia application is being completed quickly with the dry weather. |
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| 11/16/2025 | IN-BR-6 | IN | Brown |
Mildly Dry
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Agriculture Water Supply & Quality
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| Soil is damp, but streams are low or dry. |
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| 11/16/2025 | IN-MD-38 | IN | Madison |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Business & Industry Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| No significant rain again this week. Local rivers and streams are still well below normal levels. Local fields are very dry. The ground is very dry and hard. All of the soybeans and most of the corn have been harvested. Local construction projects appear to be at near normal schedules with no rain delays and the cool temperatures. All of our trees have dropped their leaves. I raked the last of them today and mowed for the final time of the year. We were under an Elevated Fire Danger today due to the dry conditions, low humidity, and fuel on the ground (dried leaves and grass). |
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| 11/16/2025 | IN-MR-231 | IN | Marion |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| 0.40 in of precipitation for the month is ~20% of normal amounts by mid-Nov. A rain-snow-melt cycle early last week, followed by a gradual warmup to 71° F yesterday yielded sparse, but unusual insect activity for this time of year. Grass is still mostly green, with some brown patches that never recovered from previous months' dry conditions. Leaf senescence was ~2 weeks later than last year. |
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| 11/16/2025 | IN-OW-9 | IN | Owen |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Normal conditions, no adverse affects |
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| 11/16/2025 | IN-PR-3 | IN | Parke |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| sprinkles this past week sunny and warm |
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| 11/16/2025 | IN-RS-4 | IN | Rush |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Local pond has almost dried up. Level has dropped 3 three feet over the summer. Pine trees are looking bad and dropping have heavy needle dropping. Ground is hard as a rock. |
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| 11/16/2025 | IA-BT-24 | IA | Benton |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Fire
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| Temp:46°F
Humidity:40%
Wet Bulb:37°F
Dew Point:24°F
Barometer:30.07 in Hg
Wind: 2 mph WNW
AQI: 2 without wood smoke adjustment
1 with wood smoke adjustment
Burn Ban: None
Water Level on the Mount Auburn is going down exposing more of the sandbars. No precipitation for these past few days. Farmers have all their crops harvested. The fields are pretty dry which can contribute to the possibility of field fires.
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| 11/16/2025 | IA-TY-2 | IA | Taylor |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| Was tempted to move to mildly dry category, rain in the forecast so will wait and see. Topsoil is getting dry especially under sod, in crop ground dries quickly when disturbed. Most have finished harvest. A lot of anhydrous is being applied. Most creeks are dry, ponds and rivers below normal. |
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| 11/16/2025 | IA-WR-5 | IA | Warren |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Moved the bar a notch lower due to the lack of rainfall and above normal temperatures. The week started cold but rapidly warmed to well above normal. Record highs were established Friday reaching into the mid 70s. The week averaged 4.4 degrees above. Climo says the site is running at 36% of normal precip for the month so far. Looking at the long range GFS indicates little precip with this first system at early week with more substantial rain coming next weekend and a larger system near Thanksgiving. Otherwise, a few farmers applying anhydrous. My wife watched an eagle swoop down and grab a fish out of the pond below the house. Never seen that before, which says a lot about Mother Nature and humans. With the add nice days, we are ready for winter. |
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| 11/16/2025 | IA-WB-17 | IA | Webster |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Conditions remain the same. Top soil somewhat moist due to recent rains. Rivers, lakes low levels with some small creeks dry.
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| 11/16/2025 | KS-LV-4 | KS | Leavenworth |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| turf is stressed, garden soil is dry in the top 6 inches. Ponds are low. |
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| 11/16/2025 | KY-GY-9 | KY | Grayson |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| 0.09” precip this week, 0.5” light snow Sunday and Monday. My first time measuring snow. Mistake – I put the snow board right on the ground, too far for old eyes and old knees to read the depth easily. Fixed – I borrowed the grandkids play table and mounted the board on top. Much easier. Ponds and creeks still low. The cold and wind removed more leaves; the wood line is becoming see-through. Picture attached showing the difference of 2 weeks. Standing hay and crops all brown and ready to harvest, more came down. Warm up tail end of the week made for nice porch-sitting in the shade of the front porch. The sunny back porch is still loaded with ladybugs trying to get inside. Spotted a few does dawn and dusk. Tuesday night we saw red Northern lights, a neat show. |
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| 11/16/2025 | LA-AS-20 | LA | Ascension Parish |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| Dry conditions persisted this week, accompanied by abundant sunshine. A sudden dip in temperatures into the low thirties set or tied local records. Heavy frost was observed on the rooftops and open areas of the lawn. Drainage ditches have remained dry for several weeks. Brown, dry grasses in the pasture are crispy and fire warnings have been mentioned. Birds at the feeding station have resorted to the fish pond for water, which has low water levels due to the lack of rainfall. Fire ants are in hiding, patiently awaiting the next rain. A few monarch butterflies are passing through on their journey to Mexico. They feasted on lantana, Turk’s cap, and a few tropical butterfly weed flowers that hadn’t frozen yet. The lawn grass is exhibiting signs of dormancy and drought stress. Deciduous trees are shedding their leaves. Flower beds are extremely dry and I await consistent rains before planting cool-season annuals for winter and spring color. |
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| 11/16/2025 | ME-LN-13 | ME | Lincoln |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| The ground is wet, puddles persist, the Medomak River and other local water bodies look typical. |
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| 11/16/2025 | ME-WL-8 | ME | Waldo |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| small amounts of rain are chipping away at the drought but streams are stil running low and usual wet spots are still dry. |
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| 11/16/2025 | ME-WL-27 | ME | Waldo |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| Currently (16Nov2025 @ 1215pm) Light but steady rain
Streams 1-3 feet wide, some flow but levels still well below the usual.
Streams 3-5 feet wide, good flow but levels still below the usual.
Streams >5 feet wide, good flow but levels still below the usual.
Ponds <1 ac., basically large puddles
Ponds 1-3 ac. some water but still below the usual for this time of year.
Ponds >3 ac. levels 1-2 feet below the usual for this time of year.
Maine Forest Service reports Fire Danger as LOW for our area. Fields are now damp enough that a tractor left tracks yesterday. The woods with all the leaves on the ground are damp and slippery.
Have not heard of any more wells in town going dry -- good news. We are still capturing rainwater for non-potable uses.
Turkeys everywhere and deer are common sight. No black bears reported in the neighborhood thankfully! |
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| 11/16/2025 | MA-BA-57 | MA | Barnstable |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| 3.19” in the preceding week; with today’s 0.72” catch we now stand at 4.28”, just over 100% of PRISM average for November. Water year is off to an impressive star – could switch to Mildly Wet but will keep things at NN for the nonce. Pond level remains high, and it looks like they’re keeping it that way. Wildlife activity continues to be normal; plenty of buns and coyotes around, and in improving number of ducks on the pond. Maples and oaks are holding onto their leaves, but most other species have dropped. |
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