| 9/26/2026 | AZ-PM-497 | AZ | Pima |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Was considering changing Condition back to NN, but given cooler temperatures and watching wildlife/plants, will keep MW. It has been dry the past week, with the exception of a T two days ago. Grasses and vegetation remain green and abundant. No signs of wildlife stress and evaporation rates are slowing. Month to date precip is 142% of average. |
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| 9/26/2026 | CO-AR-413 | CO | Arapahoe |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| CY 65% of normal; WY 61% of normal. |
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| 9/26/2026 | CO-DG-176 | CO | Douglas |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| Over half an inch of rain with cooler temperatures this week Plants trying to recover but still stressed |
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| 9/26/2026 | CO-EP-488 | CO | El Paso |
Moderately Dry
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| barely getting enough rain to keep grass and garden plants
moist, the cool temps are helping. The soil is almost hard below 1-2 inches |
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| 9/26/2026 | CO-JF-573 | CO | Jefferson |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| 0.44" rain this week. Much cooler weather and grey skies all week.
Aspens are turning yellow at our property and at higher elevations.
Have notbseen any hummers, I took feeders down last week, but did nit hear any hummers. Woodpeckers and song birds active at water baths.
Have seen many Muke Deer browsing. |
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| 9/26/2026 | CT-NL-29 | CT | New London |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| 0.96" of rain fell last week. |
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| 9/26/2026 | DE-NC-10 | DE | New Castle |
Near Normal
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| Springs flowing normally. |
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| 9/26/2026 | FL-AL-50 | FL | Alachua |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Lake Alice and retention ponds are slightly below average but plants and lawns are still quite healthy. |
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| 9/26/2026 | FL-MA-10 | FL | Manatee |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Energy Fire
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| FIRE - Surrounding area remains moist and spongy. While we have not gotten the heavy rains from the past several weeks, the ground is still very soft around our home.
ENERGY - The average day and night temps probably work out to about average. Day temps have gone slightly above normal for several days, while night temps have stayed average and two nights below! In Florida, the AC works 24/7 because of our Hight nighttime temps, so normal to slightly below still results in the AC getting a break during the evening and nighttime hours.
GENERAL - Maybe Fall is really here! This morning, getting the paper from the driveway, and checking the Rain Gauge, it felt Cool for a change and not muggy and warm! |
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| 9/26/2026 | FL-VL-60 | FL | Volusia |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| a couple of windy days, some rain, lots of sun, just barely near normal |
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| 9/26/2026 | GA-MW-9 | GA | Meriwether |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Dry conditions continuing, with lake water levels behind my house falling even further. This is causing dry areas to continue to grow larger where the creek feeds into the lake as water levels decrease. Fish beds at the waters edge are now showing and completely dry. |
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| 9/26/2026 | IL-BN-19 | IL | Boone |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| With 2.76" of rain over the week and a total of 6.81" for the month so far, it's safe to say that moderately wet soil conditions are here. And with our NWS forecasting more rain right into October, it looks like wet conditions will be around for a while. Area waterways were running on the high side but have come down, while the nearby Beaver Creek was over its banks and is now just above its normal level. Trees and underbrush are still pretty much all lush and green and it still looks like a jungle out there. Lawns are about as green as can be and still require mowing about every 4-5 days. Wildlife is becoming more active as roadkill is sadly increasing quite a bit. There was a coyote not too far away last evening. I haven't seen one of those critters for quite a while. It was keeping its distance and was looking kinda wily. |
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| 9/26/2026 | IL-MCH-101 | IL | McHenry |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health
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| 3.71" in the last couple weeks is a lot of rain here, there were warnings of rivers and creeks overflowing when we had over an inch of rain 2 days in a row. And it's mild here compared to a band a little south that has been pummeled in rain this year.
Leaves are starting to turn for fall and temps are in the 60s. I have bees still hovering around late blooming flowers. Grass is very green. I've walked into several clouds of mayflies? walking the dog lately.
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"Hurricane Polo is an extremely powerful tropical cyclone off the Pacific coast of Mexico. The eighteenth named storm, seventh hurricane, fifth major hurricane, and record-tying third Category 5 hurricane of the 2026 Pacific hurricane season, Polo formed on September 20 and explosively intensified into a Category 5 hurricane by September 22. With a central pressure of 892 mbar (26.34 inHg), it is the second-most intense Pacific hurricane by central pressure ever recorded, behind only Hurricane Patricia." |
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| 9/26/2026 | IL-ME-15 | IL | Menard |
Near Normal
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Agriculture Energy Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| We've had five days with small amts of precipitation for a total of 0.07" plus. Everything is still green and doing well but I have seen some cracks in the ground so we are normal heading into mildly dry.
The area farmers are harvesting so they probably are glad to not have wet weather right now. My green tomatoes are slow to ripen. Green peppers are doing well with lots of new blossoms. We had a off-on power outage Tues as storm clouds were passing us by. Mushrooms are popping up again. Our lone deer ended up having a late season fawn. I had assumed the lone deer was a buck. The little one is fun to watch bong, bong, boing across the field when alarmed. Skunks are busy each night digging up grubs. They leave their cone shaped holes behind in the yard and orchard. Groups of 6-8 crows are busy and noisy around here. A hawk flew off with a snake in its claws two days ago. Creek and overflow pond are dark colored mud with no standing water. Creeks in town and in surrounding area are running but are not high. It is nice to have cooler temperatures. |
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| 9/26/2026 | IN-AL-42 | IN | Allen |
Mildly Wet
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| Turf grasses still thriving. Creek still flowing. Soil soft and workable. All this very uncommonly damp for this time of year here. |
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| 9/26/2026 | IN-FL-3 | IN | Fulton |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| I have recorded 1.50 inches of rain at my location during the past 7-days. Grass in my lawn is green and lush. |
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| 9/26/2026 | IN-PR-3 | IN | Parke |
NA
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General Awareness
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| rain first of week overcast to mostly cloudy warm and less humid |
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| 9/26/2026 | IN-RP-11 | IN | Ripley |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| About normal conditions for this time of year. |
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| 9/26/2026 | KS-DG-84 | KS | Douglas |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| recent rain; ground moist; vegetation green |
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| 9/26/2026 | KS-JO-134 | KS | Johnson |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| It appears that Autumn has arrived. This week we had an inch and a third of rainfall, with high temperatures in the 70s and lower 80s. The summer heat wave has gone away |
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| 9/26/2026 | KS-KW-2 | KS | Kiowa |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| 2.39 inches of rain in 6 days this week may not end the drought but it is to muddy to do any cattle work or field work. This moisture will help the trees and grass going into fall and give us moisture to plant wheat in. |
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| 9/26/2026 | KY-CM-3 | KY | Cumberland |
Moderately Dry
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Agriculture
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| .04 inches of rain during the week. Dry fall weather. |
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| 9/26/2026 | LA-AS-20 | LA | Ascension Parish |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| A line of thunderstorms developed to my northeast that looked promising to get a little rain on Tuesday, but it hopped over my location and redeveloped to the southwest of me. Not even a drop did we get, only the mugginess! Drainage ditches have been dry. Taking advantage of the 90°F temperatures and clear skies, I’ve returned to another solarization project in an area of the yard that is all weeds. I mowed the weeds short and let the clippings dry up for a couple of days, then applied clear plastic over a 2,000 square foot area that was weighted down with 1” galvanized pipe all along the edges. The plastic was left on the area for about a week before moving it to the next location. Why not use herbicides? I’ve got the time and patience to play with it and it doesn’t cost anything. By the end of this week we have accumulated 10 days of close calls, sounds of thunder, lower than usual humidity and higher than usual temperatures. ElNino might have a hand in this weather but there ain’t much I can do about it! |
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| 9/26/2026 | MA-BE-21 | MA | Berkshire |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| This past week I recorded 0.80" of rain. More color is beginning to display in the trees and many perennials have begun their "die back" process. Roses continue to bloom along with the Black Eye Susans and Cone Flowers. I am hearing different bird calls and have not seen any hummingbirds over the past few days. Black Walnut trees continue to drop an abundance of nuts. Rivers and streams are running at normal levels and the soil has normal moisture. |
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| 9/26/2026 | MI-IH-32 | MI | Ingham |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| About 3/4" of rain this week. No standing water and garden soil is tillable as we start fall cleanup. Cucumbers, corn, and squash are done, tomatoes nearly so. Soybean harvest began yesterday and field corn looks ready. Creek level about normal, maybe a bit low. |
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| 9/26/2026 | MI-RS-11 | MI | Roscommon |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| Hardly any measurable rain in a week and a half. None expected for a few more days, adding up to two weeks without good precipitation. |
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| 9/26/2026 | MI-WS-11 | MI | Washtenaw |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Rain on several days earlier in the week, temps continue to be cool. Leaves are starting to change colors, fall flowers appearing. Not as much bird song in the mornings. It's fall. |
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| 9/26/2026 | MI-WY-125 | MI | Wayne |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
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| Mildly wet this week with 0.40 inches of rain each day for two days in a row. |
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| 9/26/2026 | MN-IT-57 | MN | Itasca |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| We've gotten some good soaking rains in the last couple of days, and the ground is currently damp. |
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| 9/26/2026 | MN-IT-109 | MN | Itasca |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| I’ve had 2.07 inches in the gauge over the last 14 days which is the best all summer. More is forecast for the next week so we may begin to move out of this dry phase. As I’ve reported all summer my immediate area gets enough to stay fairly lush. Trees are starting to turn and it’s happening as usual although just a few miles away leaves are dropping from drought stress not season change. Wetlands are drier than normal and insects other than ants are scarce. |
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| 9/26/2026 | MO-HL-45 | MO | Howell |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Same only worse than before. Drought conditions persist and continue to intensify. Morning dew is a rarity. The ground is hard and extremely dry with a coating of fine powder at the surface. Dust is a worsening issue to pasture and livestock (particularly for risk of dust pneumonia and pinkeye, which warranted treatment this week). Livestock walking across the pasture raise dust clouds that rise over a couple of feet above the ground. Yards and pastures are brown-to-gray and crunchy. Bare spots between individual plants continues to increase. There's now very little green at all in any grass plants, even next to the soil. Quite a few farmers in the area have been feeding hay or other supplements for a while now. Fire risk is very high, and several folks locally are carrying a sprayer tank full of water just in case. Pond levels continue to drop significantly; many are scummy, more are showing mud rings and bottoms. Right now, about half of our ponds are low enough to clean out. Our wet-weather branches haven't run since early Spring 2025. Quite a few mature trees are dead or dying throughout the woods with all leaves brown.
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| 9/26/2026 | MO-NW-4 | MO | Newton |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Continued very dry even with a little shower last week. Everything is stressed and Fire danger is high. Burn bans are in place in the area. Deer are plentiful. other small animals are very active. Dry leaves are falling with no coloring yet. A few humming birds are around the feeders. Shoal Creek is lowering as stream bed is exposed. Drought conditions continue as Fall begins. |
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| 9/26/2026 | MO-SG-5 | MO | Ste. Genevieve |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| Dry as a popcorn fart. No precipitation this week. Temperatures and harsh sunshine this month is changing the looks of lawns, pastures, yard plants, woods brush and barnyard weeds. The good news is that temperatures moderated this week. |
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| 9/26/2026 | NH-GR-1 | NH | Grafton |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Lake level and river level holding. Streams dry or nearly dry. Some greening of grass. |
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| 9/26/2026 | NH-GR-77 | NH | Grafton |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation
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| Only 0.44” total rain this week. We dried out a little bit this week. Hiking and biking trails are mostly dry with a few wet areas in the usual spots, also some areas are starting to get some early leaf drop. Our pond has gone back down a little with a high on the 21st at 0.2" & low on the 25th at -0.7" (12” is top of the spillway). Mad River level from the Paddlers gage at six mile bridge was at the bottom of the gage (-1.0’) to below that at the end of the week. Came close to frost a couple days this week but not yet. Still getting vegetables from the garden. WMNF fire danger sign is still set at Moderate. Foliage starting to change quickly about 30% of peak |
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| 9/26/2026 | NY-JF-48 | NY | Jefferson |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Water Supply & Quality
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| Report for the week of September 19 through September 26, 2026. We only received 0.06” of rain this past week. The grass is still green. The trees are starting to change colors. Our garden is almost done. The vegetables have been harvested and the plants are being removed. It is almost time to plant garlic. The St. Lawrence River levels recorded by the NOAA reporting station located on Wellesley Island, New York near Alexandria Bay, New York. Levels are 245.15 ft. and 25.7” Above low water datum and 60.6°F. |
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| 9/26/2026 | NY-SF-192 | NY | Suffolk |
Severely Wet
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| Heavy downpour at the 2 inch per hour rate |
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| 9/26/2026 | NY-WN-6 | NY | Wayne |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health
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| From what I know and see, everything is pretty normal at this time. Leaves are beginning to thin and change color. Harvesting of sweet corn is finished, pumpkins and squash are for sale on roadside. School-age kids are active in autumn sports, temps are seasonally dropping. |
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| 9/26/2026 | NY-WY-11 | NY | Wyoming |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Sunny and warm with light winds, then partly cloudy and cool overnight with light winds and predawn valley fog. The high temperature was around sixty four degrees, and the low around forty six degrees Fahrenheit. Songbirds are eating a feederful every other day. Asters, Goldenrod, Prunella vulgaris, Chickory, and Jerusalem Artichoke flowers are in full bloom. Apples are ripe, walnuts are 2" big and beginning to fall. All corn have cobs from 8" to 12". Blackbirds are beginning to flock. Black Cherry trees, Walnut leaves and sparse other trees leaves are beginning to change color. The local intermittent stream is dry and the nearby trout stream is flowing at late-summer levels. |
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| 9/26/2026 | NC-BC-105 | NC | Buncombe |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Society & Public Health Water Supply & Quality
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| almost 2"" of rain, first time this entire growing season I dug a hole and there was moisture past the mulch! Creeks and streams still low. fire danger diminished. Pollen counts continue high. Farmers ready for a break. |
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| 9/26/2026 | NC-CH-61 | NC | Chatham |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Relief, Response & Restrictions Society & Public Health Water Supply & Quality
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| Conditions here are severely dry. We received some rain last week and now totals over one inch for the month. We are still far behind for the year and water year. Some cooler temperatures hearald the Fall. The ground is still "dry" and leaves are changing color and starting to fall. Farmers are starting to harvest, people are outside tending yards. We are still under water restrictions. A recent algal bloom in Jordon Lake, part of our water supply, caused taste issues. This is attributed to the lower water levels caused by lack of rain. |
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| 9/26/2026 | NC-JC-22 | NC | Jackson |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Despite below average rainfall this month the plants and shrubs remain green and healthy. Leaf litter on our hiking trails remains damp in shaded areas..However stream and creek flows remain much below normal but water temps in our local trout pond have fallen enough due to falling air temperatures to allow limited trout fishing in the morning hours. Leaves on maples and tulip trees seem to be falling and there is early color noted. Fall is in the air with temps in the low 40's this morning! Deer and rabbits remain active. |
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| 9/26/2026 | NC-WK-185 | NC | Wake |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| An occupied opossum nest fell to the sidewalk from a tree during recent rainstorm. A noticeable increase in burrowing mammals in the back yard makes uneven walking surface compared to sidewalk in front yard. Quantitative short term improvements of indoor air quality (other than temperature) coincided with the passage of the rainstorm and/or equinox last week. |
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| 9/26/2026 | OK-PH-1 | OK | Pushmataha |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Our weather pattern has finally begun to change across our area with a bit more comfortable temperatures, however we are still dealing with a significant lack of rain. During the past seven days our rainfall total was only 0.11" inches of rainfall, and while this rainfall evaporated by the next day, it did not help our drought conditions any. Next, our grasses and trees remain stressed due to the lack of rainfall, and my Brown Turkey Fig trees have lost all of their leaves completely, and our Crape Myrtle Trees leaves continue to wilt due to the lack of rainfall. Lastly, area wildlife were a little more active recently with a couple of sightings of birds flying about, and also several insect species have been observed flying about too. |
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| 9/26/2026 | OR-CC-76 | OR | Clackamas |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Energy Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Fire danger was at moderate most of the week - haven't seen the fire dept. sign since the rain showers. Some wind came with the rain, and we had a 3 hour power outage. We've had an ordinary amount of rain for September. Still irrigating at times. Birds are beginning to flock, some will probably migrate out shortly. Birds are also fairly noisy now, the quiet of nesting season is over, and they feel free to let you know their opinions. The deer continue to visit our back yard. Fallen fruit is the favorite treat. This week the barn cats caught the first mouse I've seen in a month (the cats really reduced the population). Rabbits are having fall litters. Tree frogs are often heard. The white ash is entirely yellow and dropping leaves. The Pacific ash trees are showing yellow and brown and still some green and are dropping their seeds. The "burning bush" is entirely red and the snowball bushes are turning. Cottonwoods and maple have dropped just a few leaves. I saw the 4th yellowjacket I've seen this summer the past week, and it was a nuisance, trying to get into my whitewash. Moths flock to my headlamp at night. We've had dew most mornings, and earlier in the week, rather foggy mornings. It's a high fog, so driving is not a problem, but it cuts the sunlight for hours and the garden is growing very slowly. Grass is mostly green and has grown a little. I mowed the lawn this week. The creek is still quite low and quiet. Weeds are growing and sprouting all over the place. There are still good apples and blackberries to be had. |
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| 9/26/2026 | OR-CC-88 | OR | Clackamas |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| Finally measurable rain this week after 17 dry days. Still running at a deficit for the month. Plantings in need of moisture. Ground is hard. |
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| 9/26/2026 | RI-KN-36 | RI | Kent |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| .49 inches of rain this past week. |
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| 9/26/2026 | RI-PR-135 | RI | Providence |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation
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| With 0.44” of rain this week, conditions are basically near normal for the end of September. Assuming the nor’easter currently underway drops as much rain as predicted and we should be mildly to moderately wet for next week’s report. The Pascoag Reservoir is currently at 8’8” but should rise this week. Trails at Sprague Farm and Douglas State Forest were typically dry this week. Douglas Forest was particularly busy with hikers and bikers yesterday that were trying to beat the storm. On the hike we could see that a few trees are turning color, but very few. We’re probably still a couple of weeks away from real color. Also, crows were flocking and squawking in really large numbers during the hike, they were clearly upset and knew the storm was approaching. It was almost like a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”. Most people pulled their boats from the Pascoag Reservoir this week in anticipation of the storm. It will be interesting to see how many come back for the couple of weeks before the dam is opened for the season. Fire danger at George Washington state campground is still posted as Low. |
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| 9/26/2026 | SC-AK-106 | SC | Aiken |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health
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| NWS KCAE COOP STATION GNTS1 ***LOCAL CONDITIONS REBOUND SOMEWHAT TO MILDLY DRY DUE TO RECENT RAINFALL, BUT NOT ENOUGH***MTD RAINFALL = 3.20 INCHES, -0.77 INCHES BELOW NORMAL...YTD RAINFALL = 31.92 INCHES, -5.73 INCHES BELOW NORMAL THROUGH 01OCT26...... |
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| 9/26/2026 | SC-GV-94 | SC | Greenville |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| Retention pond still down about 2 feet. Tributaries are flowing normally. Clay soil is brownish color and firm. Frog activity is still high. Weather has cooled off and outdoor activity is normal. Lawns still require irrigation. |
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