| 1/18/2026 | AL-WN-7 | AL | Winston |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health
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| Conditions remain mildly wet due to rainfall of 0.34 inches on Friday night. Dust activity and fire risk remain low, and evergreen plants remain green and healthy. Buttercups have already sprouted and a producing what will become flowers later. |
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| 1/18/2026 | AZ-CH-72 | AZ | Cochise |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Fire
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| 0.00 precip this week. Very mild temperatures. Fire Weather ERC is above average. |
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| 1/18/2026 | AZ-NV-42 | AZ | Navajo |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| A dry week with no precipitation falling. Some patchy snow still remains in the shady areas from a storm earlier the previous week. Temperatures started off cold with highs in the mid 30's and lows in the teens. Temperatures slowly warmed during the week. The high of the week was 58° on Thursday and the low of the week was 14° last Sunday. It was breezy on some days last week but nothing very strong. No change in plant life in the wildland areas. The Christmas rose (Helleborus) continues to bloom in the garden. Saw a Dark-eyed Junco in the yard but no other wildlife seen. |
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| 1/18/2026 | AR-DR-14 | AR | Drew |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Do not see drought impact. |
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| 1/18/2026 | AR-PL-1 | AR | Polk |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| We received no rainfall this week and have only had 0.4” in the past 7 weeks. Drought conditions have intensified with soil moisture and water levels being much lower than normal. The soil is mostly dry except for only the lower areas. Small streams are very low or dry. Fire danger is high and we have been under a burn ban for several weeks. |
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| 1/18/2026 | CA-AL-67 | CA | Alameda |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| For the week of January 11 - 17, no precipitation, maximum high temperature 73.2 deg F, minimum low temperature 39.1 deg F, evapotranspiration = 0.399 in |
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| 1/18/2026 | CA-HM-5 | CA | Humboldt |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| A dry week with unseasonably warm days in the 60s, but overnight lows averaging 38 degrees. The local rivers continue to drop, but not clearing very quickly. Arcata showing a noticeable increase in students as Cal Poly Humboldt begins the spring semester this week. The warm sunny days has brought out a lot of birds working the trees and shrubs for bugs, and small flocks of American Robins eating the pyracantha (fire thorn) berries. California Poppy, Blackberry and Sweet Fennel blooming and Acacia has begun blooming also, two days earlier than normal. |
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| 1/18/2026 | CA-MD-42 | CA | Mendocino |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| no rain last week and none in the forecast. Wet spots from last rains are all dried up. We got enough rain earlier that we don't have to water, but that might change next week, at least for the plants in pots. |
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| 1/18/2026 | CA-MD-45 | CA | Mendocino |
Mildly Wet
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Business & Industry Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| No rain since the last report, and none in the coming week's forecast. We still need nearly 20 inches of rain by the end of the rainy season to get us through the dry season without possible water use restrictions. Nights have been down into the 40's, but mild days reaching the 60's. Lots of migrant birds in the gardens, and a flock of nine female Wild Turkeys show up occasionally and are a bother, eating up all of the seed for the smaller birds. But, that number of females shows that they had a good breeding season last year. With the mild weather, we've had a good number of tourists in the area. Ocean conditions were mixed, with some days suitable for the fishing fleet to go out. |
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| 1/18/2026 | CA-SD-22 | CA | San Diego |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation
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| The overall appearance of the landscape in my area where I hike and move about is green with grass and new growth and re-greening of the the native plants. There is a generous appearance of mushrooms, ferns, various mosses and lichens in the shaded areas and the start of seasonal native flowers like lupine. There are few free-flowing streams but the channeled creek behind my house still has some water in it from the last rains. Sumac and sagebrush have greened up very well; white-flowering currant is in bloom and here and there ceanothus is in bloom with more to come. It's a lovely time of year to be out and about. |
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| 1/18/2026 | CO-AU-37 | CO | Archuleta |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| Ground is mostly bare. Usually covered in at least 1 to 2 feet of snow. Cold at night, at least 20 degrees F higher than usual during the day. Perennials may need watering to prevent root damage. Hoping garlic is insulated enough without snow cover.
Local businesses are seeing drop in tourism due to lack of snow to ski and for annual winter festival events. |
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| 1/18/2026 | CO-EP-449 | CO | El Paso |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| The snow from last week has slowly melted away, leaving only a few patches remaining. Magpies were very active this week. Near Normal conditions remain in the Pikes Peak region. |
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| 1/18/2026 | CO-GR-52 | CO | Grand |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
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| Only 0.01" of measurable precipitation in the past week. |
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| 1/18/2026 | CO-LR-1272 | CO | Larimer |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| Decided to change to Severely Dry today. We haven't had much moisture of any kind, the snowpack in my neighborhood is non-existent except for very protected spots that had drifted fairly heavily during the last snow. MTD and YTD moisture is 35% of PRISM Normal, and WYTD is 49% of PRISM Normal. Strong winds the last 2 days has really dried out the ground. Birds continue to frequent the birdbath. I haven't seen many other animals other than a couple of deer stotting along my fence-line on the way to who-knows-where. The peaks around me have some snow on them but most are more bare than snow-covered. No new fire restrictions beyond the permanent Stage 1 restrictions. The Big Thompson River below Moraine Park is running at less than 50% of historical average. SWE as measured by Snotel sites is 58% of Median in my 6-Digit HUC and 70% in my 8-Digit HUC. There is no snow for sledding at Hidden Valley in the park. |
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| 1/18/2026 | CT-MD-21 | CT | Middlesex |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| All water courses appear at normal seasonal levels. |
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| 1/18/2026 | CT-NL-56 | CT | New London |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| This doesn;t mean much in the winter. Frozen ground, beginning of a snowy period…w3e’re fine. |
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| 1/18/2026 | FL-BV-151 | FL | Brevard |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| Middle of dry season and it shows. Mild dry stress observed with water sensitive plants, some yard grass browning observed. NWS Melbourne indicated yesterday that fire warnings may be necessary by Tuesday if no rainfall. My station has been below monthly averages since September so an early dry season this year. |
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| 1/18/2026 | FL-MA-38 | FL | Manatee |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
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| The fropa that we had hoped to help alleviate these arid grounds did little today. The .03" was of little help, and the .59 of a few days ago wasn't of great help, either. Everything is still very dry, hard, and requires frequent watering. |
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| 1/18/2026 | FL-OR-40 | FL | Orange |
Mildly Dry
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| Pleasant first part of week, then procession of two strong cold fronts in 36 hours, dropping early AM temps to just above freezing. Clear and cold. |
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| 1/18/2026 | FL-PN-79 | FL | Pinellas |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| As I'm still homebound because of surgery, I can only observe in my own yard. I still have browning in my Saint Augustine grass where I'm not irrigating. |
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| 1/18/2026 | GA-MD-5 | GA | McDuffie |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Dormant plants. Little change. |
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| 1/18/2026 | HI-KI-2 | HI | Kauai |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Relief, Response & Restrictions
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| Rainfall comes in spurts ... not quite relieving drought conditions ... temps are still cooling though not as much as in the past ... |
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| 1/18/2026 | HI-KI-31 | HI | Kauai |
Moderately Dry
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| if the weather is moderately dry, I don't have to mow the grass as much. Wet and sunny, I mow once a week. Dry, short days get mowed every other week or so. |
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| 1/18/2026 | 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: It remains complex. We are woefully low on snow, based on my noncalibrated 25 year average accumulation of 65.22". We've only received 24.6". Even by my calibrated 5 year average, we should have received 61.8" by now. Gauge catch is a different story. Calibrated 5 year average gauge catch is 9.21 of liquid since Oct. 1, and we've receive 9.36", so we're a little ahead of the game. I guess I'm coming down on the snowfall as my indication of dryness!
Agriculture: The winter wheat has about 4-5" of snow on it, barely covering last year's stubble, but my memory of Oklahoma winter wheat was that this was sufficient to keep from hurting the wheat. The temperatures in Oklahoma weren't as severe, however, so I'm not sure if this is enough cover to protect it.
Energy: The panels have no snow on them, so we're producing almost as much as we're using: 49.55 kWHR yesterday produced, compared with 50.75 kWHR consumed. Silver lining.
Plants/wildlife: Saw a cougar near Hootowl on Buckskin this week, which was pretty exciting.
Fire: very little risk right now.
Water: Again, it depends! We need snowpack, for sure, but I'm not a hydrologist, so I don't really know the relative impact of lack of snowpack versus total liquid. |
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| 1/18/2026 | IL-AD-16 | IL | Adams |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Water Supply & Quality
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| It was mild spring like at the start of the week and then a return to winter like weather to end. some snow flurries with Cold winds and temps. |
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| 1/18/2026 | IL-CP-1 | IL | Champaign |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| 0.08" of precip this week, mostly light snow. No change to conditions or impacts. Water Year precip currently 69 percent of normal. |
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| 1/18/2026 | IL-CP-178 | IL | Champaign |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| Despite multiple dustings of snow this week, I only observed .06” precipitation at my location from Jan. 12 to Jan. 18. The soil is very dry and several of my evergreens have developed an orange tinge I’ve not noticed in previous years. My 2026 total so far is 1.04”. |
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| 1/18/2026 | IL-HY-30 | IL | Henry |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Water Supply & Quality
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| Conditions remain mildly dry at this station. Have had under an inch of snow for the week. Temps really dropped at the end of this week, causing ice to form again on the area rivers. The Mississippi River did have a quick rise of a foot midweek but has dropped back to its current low level. The Rock and Green Rivers both remain low. Temps are to remain below freezing this week which will continue to harden the ground. There are a couple forecasted chances for snow this week. MTD and YTD are at 59% of NOAA Norm (-0.36") and WYTD at 81% (-1.49"). |
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| 1/18/2026 | IL-KN-67 | IL | Kane |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Conditions are normal for this time of year. |
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| 1/18/2026 | IL-MCH-13 | IL | McHenry |
Mildly Dry
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| With only 0.17 inches of precip this week, my station’s YTD precip is below normal compared to NOAA’s 30 year norm. Temps were warmer at start of week and grass was still green. Cold Weather advisory in effect til 12 pm 1/19/26 with tonight’s low around minus 2 F and Wind Chill as low as minus 24. Below normal temps predicted for week ahead. |
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| 1/18/2026 | IL-MD-37 | IL | Madison |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| Vegetation is dry, the Creeks and Streams are walkable to cross. The Lakes are down 18 inches or more from the normal pond levels. |
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| 1/18/2026 | IL-WF-14 | IL | Woodford |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Another dry week meant that the significant moisture from the previous week has essentially disappeared at the surface. We do have water in our drainage creek for the first time in months, not sure how long that will last. Everything frozen at this point but before the cold set in, the lawn and pasture were showing remarkable green with no growth. |
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| 1/18/2026 | IN-BR-6 | IN | Brown |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| Soil moist but not interfering with outdoor activities. Logging in the area continues most days. |
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| 1/18/2026 | 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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| 1/18/2026 | IN-PR-3 | IN | Parke |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| cold temps with lite snow flurries over past week |
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| 1/18/2026 | IN-WL-13 | IN | Wells |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Still below on precipitation. My wetland has been dry since July. Unusual for the winter as I have lived here 40 years |
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| 1/18/2026 | IA-BC-9 | IA | Buchanan |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Moisture for the week was 0.07 for moisture and 0.10 for snow. We went from the only snow left was in ditch's to grass and fields with a white cover and back to cold probably more seasonal temps. Some manure was hauled again this week, but that was it for agriculture movement. More cold and snow forecast for the week ahead. Guess it's kind of normal winter in Iowa at this point. No sign of the deer going through the North pasture fence yet, but it looks like they hit the South pasture fence once already. Most of the moisture we have gotten should have soaked in as the top soil was receptive at the time we got it. |
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| 1/18/2026 | IA-LN-49 | IA | Linn |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| Category D1 still remains. Mid January has been a jangled mix of typical Iowa weather. In my opinion, it is running on a cycle. Snow Saturday yet again this week. Snow blower,leaf blower,broom and shovel required. Blowing snow, squalls, winds, etc. Winter. Currently have a pretty weak snow pack of around an inch or less depending where the snow drifted etc. Witnessed a few squirrels, a couple of rabbits and several deer. There was an increase of birds, but has since dwindled. A tree limb in my back yard has cracked and looks ready to break off anytime now. There are still leaves on it as well. Looking ahead as we are under the Cold Advisory with dangerous wind chills, be Winter Weather Ready even more than we already are :):).
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| 1/18/2026 | IA-TY-2 | IA | Taylor |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| Still on the dry side. Ground has frozen again. A lot of limestone being applied to the bare soil. Grazing of corn stalks and some stockpiled pastures still going on, not much hay is being fed. |
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| 1/18/2026 | IA-WB-17 | IA | Webster |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| About 1.5in snow this past week, what little snow on the ground, normal temperatures with new snow and strong wind causing white outs. Temperatures ended the week near zero. Hard to see any change in conditions.
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| 1/18/2026 | KY-GY-9 | KY | Grayson |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| 0.49” rain this week, with a trace of snow. Ponds up a bit, streams flowing. Ground might be soggy if it hadn't frozen yesterday. Only critters spotted this week were songbirds (including crows), woodpeckers, herons, hawks, kingfishers, and vultures. |
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| 1/18/2026 | KY-JF-99 | KY | Jefferson |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Reporting condition for Week: Sunday - Saturday: 1/11 - 1/17
Precipitation for last 2 weeks: N/A
Precipitation for this week: (0.07“ + T (S) + 0.00” + 0.16” + T(S) + 0.00”+0.11 & T(S)” = 0.34”) Three days with Trace of snow.
Daily Temperatures at 8:00 AM: Avg. 25.0F; Range 17F - 44F (3F cooler than last week)
Foundation plants: watering discontinued for year
DayLillies: watering discontinued for year,
Weeding: Roots removed with most weeds when pulling, soil moist
Lawn condition:
Phillips screwdriver plunge test into lawn test area, 1/17 = 5.0” some resistance.
General comments: Winter weeds are growing in flower beds. Daffodils and tulips are up about 2’. Fescue grass is starting to show green in section of lawn covered with invasive Bermuda grass which is solid brown. Fescue lawn shows both light green and old brown blades. |
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| 1/18/2026 | ME-WL-8 | ME | Waldo |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| Still not enough snow for good snowmobiling and what snow there is doesn't have a lot of water content |
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| 1/18/2026 | MA-BA-57 | MA | Barnstable |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| 0.86” in the preceding week, with temps swinging both sides of the freezing point. This has kept soil surfaces on the moist side. Pond is mostly ice free right now. Winter flooding of the bogs appears complete; pond level is down approximately 10” (estimated) and groundwater recharge is already occurring. Waterfowl and terrestrial bird activity is normal. |
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| 1/18/2026 | MA-PL-48 | MA | Plymouth |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| Only a trace of rain in the past seven days which leaves us 1.58" below normal for the month. Although we definitely need rain or snow, it doesn't look abnormally dry. The ground is muddy on the warmer days and there's still plenty of water in the usual places like drainage ditches and brooks. |
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| 1/18/2026 | MA-WR-41 | MA | Worcester |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| 0.29 precipitation during the past week, 1.19 so far this month, 3.25 inches of snow during the past 24 hours, three inches of snow on the ground, 13.25 so far this winter, conditions pretty normal, mid-winter wintry scene. |
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| 1/18/2026 | MA-WR-112 | MA | Worcester |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation
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| It was a normal week in January, we enjoyed a January thaw which has been missing for several years because it hasn't been cold enough to create a deep freeze. After several weeks of freezing temps, even during daylight, temps in the 30s were pleasant. It was relatively dry with only 0.38", but melting snowpack likely helped keep soil moisture from drying out much.
This coming week is forecast to go back to below average temps. Perhaps a little snow too. The birds, squirrels and rabbits continue to forage around. The snow will help keep the local ski hill in business. Of course, freezing temps help with snow-making too. Normal conditions for January. |
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| 1/18/2026 | MI-AN-25 | MI | Allegan |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health
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| Our conditions this week are Near Normal with 0.29" of precipitation falling over 5 days, some as rain/sleet and the rest in 4.0" of snow. The week had a snowpack ranging from 0" to 2.5". Daily high temperatures this week started above seasonal average, getting as high as 46F on Tuesday, and then dropping to seasonal average or below average during the second half of the week. The return of winter icy conditions caused many traffic mishaps and vehicles sliding off the highway. Birds and squirrels appear to be getting by pretty well so far this winter, one or two of the fat squirrels are sporting back scars that appear to be evidence of surviving an encounter with either a local hawk or cat. |
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| 1/18/2026 | MI-BN-3 | MI | Berrien |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| For the week ending 1/18/2026, conditions were NEAR NORMAL. The 7-day cumulative precipitation total of 0.79 inches was 1% above the 13-year (2009-2022) average of 0.78 inches and in the “near normal” range; the 30-day total of 3.77 inches was 10% above the expected 13-year average of 3.42 inches and in the “near normal” range; and the 90-day total of 9.21 inches was 10% below the expected 13-year average of 10.25 inches and in the “mildly dry” range. There were 4 days of measurable precipitation, with a maximum of 0.60 inches on the 15th (all from snow). There were 4 days of Snowfall (total of 12.8 inches, max of 9.5 inches on the 15th) & 5 days of Snowpack (average of 6.0 inches). Temps ranged from 51 F (on the 13th) to 11 F (on the 18th), with average Hi/Lo temps of 47/32 F (-10/-11 relative to last week). Precipitation Trends—January-to-Date Totals: 1.29 inches (down 0.48 inches, 73% of PRISM Normal). Winter Conditions (November 1-to-Date)—New Snow on 25 days, with total of 49.6 inches (vs 17-year averages of 19 days and 36.2 inches); Snow Pack on 43 days, with average daily depth of 4.5 inches (vs 17-year averages of 29 days and 5.3 inches). In marked contrast to last week’s spring-like weather, winter returned to the area this week with a vengeance, with dangerous driving conditions early in the week. A small group of Hooded Mergansers returned to Crescent Lake one day this week, but for the most part the lake has been frozen. Two American Robins visited our heated bird bath this morning, one of the coldest days of the winter to date. |
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| 1/18/2026 | MI-BN-28 | MI | Berrien |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Energy Tourism & Recreation
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| Due to travel, multi-day forecast from the 9th to the 13th. 0.40” of liquid water was in the gauge. Only light patches of snow were on the ground which soon melted off due to temperatures well above freezing; it has since been replaced in abundance. On Wednesday, the 14th, a major lake effect storm arrived, which made national news, with very strong winds and heavy snow bands which caused power outages and travel disruptions. On the other hand, this storm also created outdoor winter recreation opportunities which lasted through the weekend and beyond. This storm brought freezing temperatures that have steadily dropped; as of this writing it is currently 11 degrees which will impact utility demands. Precipitation in some form fell every day but, due to winds, snow and snow water equivalent are undermeasured but were collected as follows. Gauge catch 0.49 inches, 6.9 inches of snow (again, certainly a lot of snow was blown off the board and past the gauge), snow water equivalent 0.52 inches. Currently there is an average snowpack of 4.5 inches. Drainage ditches have ice but local rivers and Lake Michigan are not yet freezing. Overall, conditions are mildly wet. |
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