| 8/28/2026 | AR-LW-19 | AR | Lawrence |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
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| Extremely dry!! Grass is brown and trees are losing leaves . Ponds are going down and pastures are not growing very well. Burn bans have been in effect for a long time. Only 0.36 in of rain for August so far and we haven't had a whole lot of rain this year. |
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| 8/28/2026 | CO-GN-18 | CO | Gunnison |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
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| The drought continues in recording breaking form as streams dry up and vegetation all dried early and was severely stressed. |
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| 8/28/2026 | CO-PH-14 | CO | Phillips |
Moderately Dry
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| My buffalo grass is still green from the 2" we got a week ago, but the ground is quite hard. |
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| 8/28/2026 | FL-PN-79 | FL | Pinellas |
Severely Dry
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| Everything dries up very quickly after the little rains we do have |
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| 8/28/2026 | IN-RP-11 | IN | Ripley |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| About normal top soil conditions for this time of year. |
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| 8/28/2026 | MD-HW-44 | MD | Howard |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| No effect |
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| 8/28/2026 | MN-DS-66 | MN | Douglas |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
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| It's been a week without any rainfall. We are still getting high 70 temps during the day with cooling at night. Grass continues to brown, trees are dropping leaves. Local rivers and lakes are down significantly. Flower and vegetable gardens are stressed and are requiring watering. |
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| 8/28/2026 | MN-WR-150 | MN | Wright |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| Lawn is now brown. Trees have already started to drop leaves. Mississippi river is near the lowest I have seen it. You can walk across the river at my location. |
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| 8/28/2026 | MO-CP-7 | MO | Cooper |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Energy
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
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| It has been less humid this week and was actually cool enough a few nights to have the windows open. The days are still warm though. No rain this week so it is dry and dusty. My house plants will need a drink this weekend. There are lots of hickory nut bits on the back porch, so the squirrels have been busy. Walnuts are falling too. Not much other wildlife although my dog and I scared off three deer early one morning last weekend. Early in the week it was starting to feel like fall, but it is warming up now. |
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| 8/28/2026 | NH-GR-69 | NH | Grafton |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
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| I was gone for 2 weeks and returned 8/24. Even with a decent amount of rain my pond was even lower still. Close to 3’ below full. Brooks and streams are extremely low and my lawn barely grew while I was away. Since returning there’s been only small amounts of rain so the dryer trend continues. |
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| 8/28/2026 | NY-WY-11 | NY | Wyoming |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
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| Cloudy and warm with light winds and rain, becoming mostly sunny, then partly to mostly cloudy and cool overnight with light winds. The high temperature was around seventy six degrees, and the low around fifty 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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| 8/28/2026 | NC-BC-1 | NC | Buncombe |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
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| A dry week with no measurable rain. Top soil drying out. |
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| 8/28/2026 | NC-WK-203 | NC | Wake |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
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| Rainfall for the week was 0.24 inches. Conditions deteriorated some with most sensitive plants and lawns under stress. Stream flow is low. |
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| 8/28/2026 | TN-RD-138 | TN | Rutherford |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Late last night had a viewing of a rare lunar eclipse, blood moon. |
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| 8/28/2026 | TX-WM-330 | TX | Williamson |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
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APPRECIATING THE BREAK IN OUR STRING OF DRY 100 + DAYS THIS MONTH. 99.9 DEGREES COUNTS!
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| 8/28/2026 | WI-LF-6 | WI | Lafayette |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
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| Ground is hard & dry. Yards are dry. Plants are dry. Some trees are loosing pods that I have not noticed them doing at this time of year in other years. Springs are dry (some have been for a few years now) Corn is denting. Farmers are starting to chop corn. Beans are yellow and drying fast. |
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