Weekly precip was 0.17 inches. Weekly lows: 60,69,66,67,68,66,52. Highs: 86,84,87,87,88,90,76. A few sprinkle showers on Monday and early Thursday morning provided a total of 3 hundredths. Light rain/mist showers yesterday provided an additional 14 hundredths. That was all the rain for the past week. Lots of sun and wind again this past week. The very dry planting conditions are the biggest concern right now for farmers. The light rain showers are a problem too, with not enough moisture to germinate a planted seed but just enough to make it swell (this can possibly and often does ruin the seed). We need a good inch of rain to soak through the soil profile and completely surround the seed with moisture. When only the surface is dampened, the moisture leaves too fast for the seed to have enough time to use it. Cracks are becoming plentiful again (I believe many of them are cracks from last fall that only closed up shallowly). We are fairly dry at depth in the soil profile too (I planted a couple of trees in the yard and discovered very little moisture in the first 6 to 10 inches of earth and had to leave the water hose trickling for several hours on them). All things green are using moisture now which means severely dry conditions are right around the corner without any decent rain or a change in the dry and warm pattern of weather lately. According to PRISM, this station is down 3.29 inches for the month, down 8.10 inches for the year and down 12.08 inches for the water year. The last time I selected "near normal" was for the week ending July 13th, 2025 (only 3 months from a year ago).