It's been 11 days without rain with very hot temperatures--many days in the 90s--so grass is brown and garden needs daily watering. I would call it severely dry except over the long term it is not quite that bad and the forest is still relatively green due to the rain a couple weeks ago. Fire danger is inching up to high though. given the forecast of continued heat and only low chances for real precip, I suspect it will be severely dry by next week. We are usually too far NW for much monsoonal moisture. But maybe we'll get lucky.