| 5/21/2026 | CO-LR-1238 | CO | Larimer |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
Society & Public Health
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| The amount of moisture we’ve had since the end of April is significant. Plants have transformed from drought-stricken to green and lush. Pools of standing water remain in low areas and roadside pubbles where soil is compacted. It has been unusually cool, as well, thus helping to conserve the moisture. So I,s are well saturated, and some water bodies that looked very low have filled. Even the Poudre River is running much better than it had been in April with so little snowmelt runoff to feed it. Of note to me as a Birdwatcher has been the sudden influx of migratory birds s the rainstorms brought water. Until then, it had felt like Silent Spring, with at least some delay in migrant arrivals. I also suspect that the snow accumulations in the mountains t this crazy late date may have been driving some birds down in elevation. Despite all this good water from the sky, Our water company, ELCO, which gets water sourced from the West Slope Colorado River drainage, has issued voluntary watering restrictions to every other day. It seems the Colorado River drainage system isn’t being helped out of drought by all the storms we’re having on the East Slope, though quite a bit of snow has been falling on the Divide, so it is of at least some help to mitigate the generally moderate to exceptional drought we’ve been in throughout Colorado. |
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| 5/21/2026 | IL-WL-63 | IL | Will |
Near Normal
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Plants & Wildlife
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| Scant rainfall over the past week but all plants, trees, and grasses in our yard are prospering. |
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| 5/21/2026 | IA-MA-16 | IA | Marion |
Severely Wet
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Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
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| Ground is completely wet in fields and lawns. Certain moderate-poor drainage spots in fields are drowned out. This will cause the need for replants of corn and soybeans in certain areas. This will also delay agricultural equipment from accessing fields due to the mud for multiple days. |
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| 5/21/2026 | KS-RO-6 | KS | Rooks |
Severely Dry
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Agriculture
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| the moisture event might have drawn dust enough to able to see tracks on county roads. It is DRY! |
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| 5/21/2026 | NY-WY-11 | NY | Wyoming |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
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| Partly sunny and warm with light winds and early morning drizzle, then mostly cloudy and cool overnight with mild winds. The high temperature was around sixty degrees, and the low around forty degrees Fahrenheit. Songbirds are eating a feederful every day. Butterflies are emerging. Hawthorn leaves, White Ash tree buds, Hackberrry tree leaves, Apple Tree flowers, Black Cherry flowers, Black Walnut leaves, Jewelweed leaves, Johnny-Jump-Up flowers, wild strawberry flowers, phlox flowers and Bush Honeysuckle flowers are appearing. Corn is being planted. The local intermittent stream and nearby trout stream are flowing at spring levels. |
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| 5/21/2026 | NC-JC-22 | NC | Jackson |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
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| The soil is moderately dry when digging holes in the ground for new plants. Surrounding communities have enacted water restrictions though Cashiers where I live has not done so. New plantings have required watering twice over the past 14 days (no rain has fallen since 5/7-5/8). Streams locally are very low and the elevated water temperature in our trout pond has risen enough to prevent fishing for trout. |
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| 5/21/2026 | PA-CD-30 | PA | Cumberland |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Fire
Tourism & Recreation
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| Cool with light drizzle as of this time |
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| 5/21/2026 | TX-LK-48 | TX | Lubbock |
Severely Dry
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Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
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| With less than 1.5 inches precip this growing season, farmers are not planting summer crops on irrigated or dryland farms due to a lack of moisture in the soil surface. Producers will be depending on Crop Insurance again this year. |
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| 5/21/2026 | WV-KN-56 | WV | Kanawha |
Moderately Dry
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Plants & Wildlife
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| Have to water new grass and outside plants every evening as they wilt during the day |
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| 5/21/2026 | WY-GS-70 | WY | Goshen |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
Tourism & Recreation
Water Supply & Quality
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| I could not say that conditions are normal even though we have received some rain recently. The soil moisture has improved and grass is growing. There was some high country snow but it will not add much to the runoff as it will soak in where is has fallen. There has been an improvement for grazing prospects. |
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