| 8/2/2026 | AZ-CH-72 | AZ | Cochise |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| 0.25 precip plus 4 trace days this week. Trend of localized cells continues. Both June and July had below normal precip, but still above normal for calendar and water year. |
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| 8/2/2026 | AZ-NV-42 | AZ | Navajo |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Drier and hotter last week with only one day with measurable precipitation when .07 inches fell on Monday. Highs started in the mid 80's but warmed to the mid 90's as the week progressed. The high of the week was 95° on Friday. Lows were also warm with temperatures in the low 60's except for a couple of days. The low of the week was 58° on Wednesday. No strong winds last week. The surrounding open, wildland areas continue to "green up" with grasses and plants growing and wildflowers blooming. The vegetable garden is producing more zucchini and yellow squash and harvested the first cauliflower. Green beans are starting to grow more now. All other plants in the garden are looking very healthy. Finches visit the bird bath daily and a lot of hummingbirds observed visiting the garden. Also, have seen garter snakes several times by the pond. |
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| 8/2/2026 | AR-BX-38 | AR | Baxter |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| We are still in D0 (Abnormally Dry). Little moisture this week. Fire danger is moderate. |
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| 8/2/2026 | AR-LW-19 | AR | Lawrence |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| We've had about an inch of rain in the last week. Grass is growing really good though. We've been getting some more rain this summer after having a dry spring but I don't think we're back to yearly average yet. |
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| 8/2/2026 | AR-PL-1 | AR | Polk |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| Conditions have become considerably more dry in the past couple of weeks due to only receiving 0.03” of rainfall. Temperatures have been mostly in the 90s but was only in the mid 80s yesterday with passage of a cold front. Plants and crops are seriously drought stressed now. The lawn is mostly brown and trees are turning color and starting to lose leaves. I’ve been having to water the landscape plants and lawn to keep everything from completely dying. Local pastures and hayfields are drought stricken. The small stream nearby has dried up completely but that isn’t unusual for August. There is a moderate danger of wildfires due to brown vegetation and lower humidity and wind this weekend. |
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| 8/2/2026 | CA-AL-67 | CA | Alameda |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| For the week of July 26 - August 1, no precipitation, maximum high temperature 81.6 deg F, minimum low temperature 54.9 deg F, evapotranspiration by ET gage = 0.91 in. Atmospheric ducting returned July 30, with consistent 300 nautical miles AIS VHF 162 MHz reception. Normal, consistent maximum receive range is 50 nautical miles. The overnight marine layer has cleared quickly each morning with mostly clear, blue skies by 8 AM. |
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| 8/2/2026 | CA-HM-5 | CA | Humboldt |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| Continued dry conditions with some measurable drizzle. July was at 27% of normal with 0.06", and Water Year to date is at 88.4% with 44.26". July ET was 2.48", slightly below the 14-year average at this location. Average high this past week was 70.6 degrees, low 56.1 degrees. July's average high was 2.5 degrees above last year, but still 2 degrees below the previous 4 years. July average low was 1 to 1.5 degrees below the previous 6 years. No change on the Drought Map. Ruth Lake Reservoir at 88% on 7/31. The Trinity and Eel Rivers continue to drop, while the Mad has somewhat stabilized at 5.7 feet and 40-45 cfs as the reservoir continues to release water for the pumps near Arcata that collect the local drinking water. Cal Trans and the county doing lots of vegetation cutting along roadways, especially Cal Trans heavily trimming trees along the local highways. Spot fires continue to break out but contained quickly, and a prescribed burn was done at the Arcata-Eureka airport ahead of an air show this next weekend to prevent anything happening with the large crowds expected. Blue Lake hosts an annual blues festival this coming weekend, continuing the summer music programs. In several areas around this location poison oak is already reddening, which is earlier than normal. |
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| 8/2/2026 | CA-MD-42 | CA | Mendocino |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
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| Typical summer although it feels like we are having more sunny days than the usual marine layer/foggy coastal days. No scientific proof. I haven't looked up data to count days. Still about 90% of normal for the water year. Still watering. |
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| 8/2/2026 | CA-MD-45 | CA | Mendocino |
Moderately Dry
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Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| Mostly sunny and warm this week, with gusty winds in the afternoons. Perfect weather for this weekend's annual Art in the Garden festival at the local botanical garden. This always brings in a crowd of locals and tourists. Summer harvests are filling the farmer's markets. One favorite is the local Italian long bean, brought with original settlers back in the late 1800s and still grown for sale. We'll be able to start harvesting wild huckleberries soon. No rain in the forecast, but ground water levels are still sufficient for the wells for now. Saw the first baby raccoon this week, but no baby quail yet. Does and fawns are wandering through the underbrush now. Delightful. |
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| 8/2/2026 | CO-CS-35 | CO | Costilla |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| Intense rain on 2026-7-29 washed out some local roads. Even after receiving 0.77" of rain for the week we are still very dry. |
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| 8/2/2026 | CT-NL-56 | CT | New London |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| I’m saying “Normal”, but we had 2.86x our normal rainfall in July, so the soil moisture is luxuriously wet. No irrigation has been needed, and the plants are all thriving…and we’re due for more this week. We are in a GREAT situation right now. |
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| 8/2/2026 | FL-BW-167 | FL | Broward |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Energy Plants & Wildlife
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| Active thunderstorms have brought conditions in the mildy wet conditions. Temps are at summer peaks now and AC use has grown also to peak usage. Plants and wildlife have no shortage of moisture at this time. |
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| 8/2/2026 | FL-OR-40 | FL | Orange |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
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| Typical summer pattern for Central Florida. Daily afternoon quite scattered sea breeze TS. Very humid and muggy. |
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| 8/2/2026 | GA-MD-5 | GA | McDuffie |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Topsoil & plants are better. Pond & water table remain low. |
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| 8/2/2026 | HI-KI-2 | HI | Kauai |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Relief, Response & Restrictions
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| Still raining - mostly light-to-nil but pops up moderate in-between ... acceptable provided the hurricanes stay away or fade away ... |
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| 8/2/2026 | ID-BK-27 | ID | Bannock |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Energy Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| General Awareness: I'm choosing moderately dry based on the nice, "wet" July we had. Admittedly we're in drought based on the water year. We have received 1.21" of rain in July, compared with my 6-year average of .58 ". With a standard deviation of .37, we are actually 2 SD above our 6 year average.
Agriculture: The mustard and wheat are both dry now, and moving toward harvest-ready. I had concerns, actually, that the great rain we had last week would lead to sprouting of the wheat and/or mustard. We've seen that before.
Energy: Clearly we're in the healthy solar harvesting period. Even with the AC running in this near-100 degree temperature, we produced 89.5 kWHR and only used 28.54 kWHR, shipping the rest to Idaho Power.
Fire: Danger is high, of course. We have fires all around us, though not immediately close. We start getting concerned when the fires are in the Caribous or on the Fort Hall Reservation, as we abut both of these areas.
Plants/wildlife: Dry, of course, and the birds/animals are looking for water. We still have a little seep from our spring, but our creek is dry. The Rapid Creek is still flowing.
Water: Obviously, an issue. Again, I praise our neighbor farmers who chose dryland farming over irrigation. |
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| 8/2/2026 | IL-AD-16 | IL | Adams |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| The week started out very hot and humid and Dry. Mid week temps finally and slowly cooled some to be bearable. The week closed out with a bit of beneficial rain but most of it came as a heavy rain that likely didn't do much good for any sloping terrain. |
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| 8/2/2026 | IL-CP-1 | IL | Champaign |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| 1.31" of rain in the past two days was the boost we needed after things started to get drier. Grass and weeds in the garden have responded, and local soybean fields are happy. |
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| 8/2/2026 | IL-HY-30 | IL | Henry |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| What started out as a very warm and dry week with grass turning brown, soil hard and cracking, and a swimming pool in much need of water due to evaporation and to keep water moving to the pump, ended with grass greening up, softer turf and no domestic water being added to the pool. Over an inch of soaking rain fell on Friday with additional rain yesterday turning back what was starting to be Moderately Dry conditions. With July starting out wet, the month ended on a dry note with a deficit of 0.80" (80%) of NOAA Norm. YTD and WYTD did however remain on the plus side of NOAA Norm. August starts at +1.01" (503%). Area rivers are at their summer lows but will see a little rise this week with what rain runoff there was and the rain that fell to the north. Area crops remain to appear to be looking good. I am sure the soaking rain will help boost the corn kernel growth. Temps are to remain near normal with more rain forecast for mid-week. The hummingbirds remain very active at the feeders. |
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| 8/2/2026 | IL-KN-67 | IL | Kane |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Conditions are back to near normal for this time of year. Lawns are mostly green and growing following the rains this week. All other plants are healthy looking. |
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| 8/2/2026 | IL-LG-2 | IL | Logan |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Rainfall reported 8/1-2 in Lincoln totaled around 0.50 to 0.75", which helped the dry conditions, but is still about 40% of normal for the past 3-4 weeks. Grasses are still yellow/brown in spots and the ground is cracked. The past two days of light soaking rain will help, but not completely alleviate the problem. The recent slightly cooler weather has also helped the stress on vegetation. |
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| 8/2/2026 | IL-MCH-13 | IL | McHenry |
Moderately Wet
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| What a difference 2 days make. Ended July 2026 with MTD rain of 1.49 inches, only 39% of NOAA 30-year norm. By 8 am today, my station has received 2.93 inches of rain, +2.68 inches, 1,186% of normal! Don’t remember seeing that overage in the 19 years, 5 months, 9 days that I have been reporting. Steady moderate to heavy rain occurred without drama - no lightning/thunder observed.
Standing water in ditches, plants are healthy and lush, ground is saturated. YTD: 28.01 inches of precip, +5.41 inches, 124% normal. WYTD: 34.66 inches, +4.59 inches, 115% normal. Not having to hand water is a relief.
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| 8/2/2026 | IL-MCL-2 | IL | McLean |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| The rain this past Saturday really helped, we were running moderately dry before the 1.91". Grass was going dormant again, trees were showing a little stress, dropping leaves early. Creeks were down. Wet spots in fields had all dried up. Corn is showing a little bit of firing at the bottom. This was a very welcome and timely rain. |
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| 8/2/2026 | IL-MA-40 | IL | Macon |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Pond is level with run off.
Extreme heat and humidity Sunday-Wednesday.
The ground is starting to crack. Vegetation is showing leaves burnt from the sun. Fruit trees are not producing well.
Storms Friday and Saturday
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| 8/2/2026 | IL-WL-131 | IL | Will |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
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| July was a feast-famine-feast kind of month. Overall, met the monthly NOAA avg and conditions flipped from mildly dry to Normal. Subsequently Aug started out soggy, picking up over half the Aug avg on the first day.
The back yard is soggy in the low area and fields have some standing water.
Crops are doing good and the grass is again in need of regular cutting. |
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| 8/2/2026 | IL-WF-14 | IL | Woodford |
Mildly Wet
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| Continnuing to move toward normal as levels in creeks and rivers continue to drop. Ground is drying out and cracks are starting to show up but the lawn and pasture are still green and growing slowing. Normal there would be the mid summer browning. Crops are looking good and progressing well. |
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| 8/2/2026 | IN-BR-6 | IN | Brown |
Mildly Wet
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Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Plants are growing and producing. Only a few garden plants need supplementary water. |
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| 8/2/2026 | IN-MD-38 | IN | Madison |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture Business & Industry Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| Local rivers and streams appear at normal levels for this time of year. The ground, including fields, appears to be with good moisture. Crops appear healthy and growing. Local construction projects are moving right along. Our lawn and trees are very healthy. I'm still mowing weekly. Flowers and plants are healthy and growing very well. |
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| 8/2/2026 | IN-MR-231 | IN | Marion |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
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| Unusually dry July (34% of norm), but 3.31 inches of rain within the past week. Grass browning has partially reversed and growth rate has increased. Wildlife/insect activity still low from previous dry conditions and lag effect of recent rain (including 1.99 inches just yesterday). |
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| 8/2/2026 | IN-OW-9 | IN | Owen |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
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| No adverse affects |
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| 8/2/2026 | IA-PL-9 | IA | Plymouth |
Moderately Dry
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Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| The week brought us more very hot and dry conditions again. Leaving us with just over .25 inches of rain at mid-week. That precipitation was just enough to help the crops, lawns and garden a little relief from the dry conditions. |
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| 8/2/2026 | IA-TY-2 | IA | Taylor |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture
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| Continue to receive decent moisture. Crops look good. Lawns and pastures still growing well. Temperatures have cooled down. |
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| 8/2/2026 | IA-WB-17 | IA | Webster |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| Only about .4in rain this past week conditions remind about the same. Lawns pastures are beginning to brown and crops look good. Water levels remain moderate. High humidity and temperature have abated the last several days.
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| 8/2/2026 | KS-KW-2 | KS | Kiowa |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| No rain this week leaves us at 1.99 inches of rain in July. The deep rooted plants are green and maturing the shallow rooted plants are suffering from lack of moisture and heat. The fall crops are stalled out and need moisture soon to make a crop. Some of the pastures are dry enough to burn. |
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| 8/2/2026 | KY-GY-9 | KY | Grayson |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
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| 0.65” rain for the week. Creeks and seeps flowing low. Ponds still dropping. Hot and humid until Thursday, then porch-sitting weather. Crops looking good, grass is getting thick in a week. Deer coming up in the back yard to eat pears. One spotted fawn came right up to the front porch steps, curiously looking in at the barking dog. Turkeys out during the day, no poults. Walnuts, red maples starting to color. |
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| 8/2/2026 | KY-HR-10 | KY | Harrison |
Mildly Dry
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Plants & Wildlife
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| 1.85" rainfall this week. S. Fork Licking River at Cynthiana at 4.92ft and flowing at 82.5ft3/sec (normal). Some trees, especially hickories, showing yellow cast in leaves.
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| 8/2/2026 | ME-LN-30 | ME | Lincoln |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| 0.15 inches or rain for the week. Soil is very dry, grass exposed to the sun is brown, not growing. Some of the clover in the shade is still green. Water plants and trees planted last fall daily. Small stream on our property has no water, just wet mud and leaves. No problem with deep well. Established trees not showing signs of stress.
There have been days in recent weeks where important rain had been predicted but the lines of rain appear to weaken and evaporate as they approach the coast. |
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| 8/2/2026 | ME-WL-8 | ME | Waldo |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
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| It is necessary to water the garden to save it. Lawns are brown and crispy. Rainfall at least 2 inches below average for last month. The garden soil is powder dry. |
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| 8/2/2026 | MD-WR-31 | MD | Worcester |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| July 2026 summary from eastern Worcester County, MD (using midnight to midnight data) - Temperatures in July were about average with an average daily maximum of 85.5 degrees and an average daily minimum of 70.6. The highest daily maximum was 97.3 on the 4th and the lowest daily maximum was 78.8 on the 27th. The daily maximum was 90 or above on 6 days. The lowest daily minimum was 59.0 on the 25th and the highest daily minimum was 80.6 on the 4th. The average daily humidity was 80.9%. The dewpoint reached 70 or above on 27 days and was 80 or above on 5 days. Rainfall was well above the average with 6.81 inches observed, which is about 180% of average. Measurable rain was observed on 11 days. |
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| 8/2/2026 | MA-BA-57 | MA | Barnstable |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| 0.89” in the preceding week. This brings our total catch for July to 9.91” – 337% of PRISM average, wiping out deficits earlier in the water year. This wasn’t only the biggest July I’ve seen – it was also the second-wettest month since I started collecting data in 2017 (local record at this station was set September 2021, with a total catch of 13.58” thanks to some tropical storm activity). We’ve got a ways to go before offsetting the significant deficit for ‘24-’25 so continuing drought categorization certainly makes sense, but it’s a start. Worth noting that although all of the Cape did pretty well this month, the southwest corner of the Cape and Islands – from Bourne down through the Vineyard, then east through Mashpee – really got the lollipop. Despite this, July has actually been quite lovely – not too many sticky days and plenty of sunshine between the much-needed rain events. Things are lush and growing in seasonally-appropriate ways. Pond level is at normal control depth. Wildlife activity is normal; am seeing significantly reduced osprey activity now that this year’s chicks have fledged. |
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| 8/2/2026 | MA-HD-38 | MA | Hampden |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
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| Precipitation over the past 5 days of 3.14 inches brought my area from moderately dry to near normal. And I noticed my spot on the map was on the low side of more excessive rainfall up the Connecticut River valley, during the last week of July. Outdoor plants sucked it up, Connecticut River rose to provide more boating, water sports area. |
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| 8/2/2026 | MA-PL-15 | MA | Plymouth |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| We had 1.75" of rain this past week at this location but much of that came from a small storm that covered only a limited area. Generally this area is in a D1 drought. Some towns have declared a water emergency though due to critically low reservoir levels. The rain has caused all the crabgrass and weeds to green up quite a bit so plants in generally are OK for now. The usual wildlife is around, lots of goldfinches at the feeder! I haven't seen any of the new crop of young animals but that isn't unusual. I haven't heard of any unusual wildfire activity in this area. |
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| 8/2/2026 | MA-PL-48 | MA | Plymouth |
Mildly Dry
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| Although July saw above average rainfall (5.36"), it came in heavy bursts with many dry days in between. This week we missed some of the heavy rain and saw just .58". It's almost back to normal for mid summer but still just a little dry. |
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| 8/2/2026 | MA-WR-41 | MA | Worcester |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
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| 3.69 rainfall during the past week, 7.82 inches for July, almost on the cusp of mildly wet after last week's heavy rain, local streams up quite a bit from last week, lawn lush and green, local vegetables producing, pond on a local farm also up quite a bit, very humid. |
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| 8/2/2026 | MA-WR-112 | MA | Worcester |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
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| A storm system that spread out over several days brought 4.09" of much needed rain this week. Some local areas got even more, bringing them into top record categories. A few locations had flooding issues with all that rain, but it made a dent in the drought too.
Plants are flowering, vegetables are maturing and showing up at farmer's markets, weather conditions before the storm came through were delightful - temps mostly in the 70s with low dew points. Forecasts for the coming week suggest hotter and more humid conditions after another storm front brings more rain. The dog days of summer are headed this way, right on time.
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| 8/2/2026 | MI-AN-25 | MI | Allegan |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health
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| Our conditions this past week were Mildly Dry with 0.35" of rain falling over 3 days. Daily high temperatures were about seasonal average, going into the low 80F's every day, except for one day where the high got to 87F and yesterday where it only got to 71F. The air quality has been relatively good with low levels of wildfire smoke compared to a couple of weeks ago. Lightning bugs are flashing after dark, but are much rarer now compared to the beginning of July; other night creatures are now peeping, croaking and carrying on loudly after dark. Lawns, which were turning brown, were revived by this weeks rain showers so they look greener than a week ago; grass growth has slowed or stopped except for crab-grass, which is doing just fine. Our July monthly precipitation at this site amounted to 2.56", which is 0.98" below our PRISM July average. |
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| 8/2/2026 | MI-BN-28 | MI | Berrien |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture Business & Industry Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation
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| Current conditions are moderately wet owing to 1.62 inches of rain this week along with moderate temperatures and high humidities throughout the week. A series of storms arrived Monday afternoon which delivered 1.41 inches of rain with the remainder of the much gentler rain falling over the weekend. Soils are wet at and below the surface. Lawns are green and growing and a variety of local farm products are filling area produce stands. Outdoor recreation continues to thrive, even with the milder and wetter weather. Lake Michigan has been periodically petulant but today is really acting out. In short, the landscape is lush and green for early August. |
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| 8/2/2026 | MI-OD-4 | MI | Oscoda |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife
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| Sandy soil conditions. 1.27" of precip from July 27 to August 2. Fire Danger is Moderate. |
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| 8/2/2026 | MI-RS-11 | MI | Roscommon |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
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| Although we've had a fair amount of rain in the last week, it hasn't been much for a few days, with the majority falling a week ago, about 2 1/2" in a few hours. |
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| 8/2/2026 | MN-AT-54 | MN | Aitkin |
Mildly Dry
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Plants & Wildlife
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| After being moderately dry, yesterday's rain moistened the topsoil. |
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