9/23/2023 | AZ-MH-25 | AZ | Mohave |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
| Abnormally Dry D0 drought status along the lower Colorado River valley area. Near normal high temps this past week ranging 94F to 101F. |
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9/23/2023 | CA-OR-31 | CA | Orange |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| Very normal weather this past week. Outdoor activities are in full end of summer start of fall swing. |
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9/23/2023 | CO-AR-421 | CO | Arapahoe |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| Only 0.02 inches of rain fell in the last week. I have, however, recorded 21.77 inches of rain for the year to date. The landscape even unwatered fields is still largely green which is surprising for the end of September. |
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9/23/2023 | CO-DG-176 | CO | Douglas |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
| No real moisture and day time highs in the 80s. Hand watering needed. Apples all out of tree and produce production winding down. Mums opening |
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9/23/2023 | CT-NH-43 | CT | New Haven |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| Soil remains moist and lawn requires mowing more than once a week. Plants and shrubs remain healthy and nearby reservoirs are at high levels. |
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9/23/2023 | CT-NL-29 | CT | New London |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Tourism & Recreation
| A 2" rain storm kept soil wet, water levels in lake and stream are atypically high. |
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9/23/2023 | DE-NC-10 | DE | New Castle |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
| Springs flow slightly lower than normal. |
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9/23/2023 | DE-SS-3 | DE | Sussex |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
| 9/17-9/23 provided 2.22" on three different days. Before today's report Morris Branch was dry on south end of pipe and a diminishing puddle on north side. |
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9/23/2023 | FL-AL-50 | FL | Alachua |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| Before Thursday, plants were wilting, and we hadn’t had any rain in a couple of weeks so water levels at lake alice and the golf course ponds were low. Then in a period of about an hour on Thursday, we got almost an inch of rain so today plants are looking happier and the ground is not so dry |
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9/23/2023 | FL-BW-167 | FL | Broward |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Energy Plants & Wildlife
| Significant rain throughout the period with one storm dropping over 2". Temps are seasonally moderating decreasing use of AC somewhat. No landscape irrigation needed. |
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9/23/2023 | FL-LE-22 | FL | Lee |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife
| There has been some significant rain at this location during this past week (0.81 inches), so the soil has not dried out too much. The temperatures have not been quite as hot as in recent weeks so there has not been as much evaporation. However, the soil is somewhat drier than normal for this time of year. The foliage is showing no signs of drought stress and there is some standing fresh water for wildlife. I have heard no reports of brush fires in the region this week. |
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9/23/2023 | FL-MA-10 | FL | Manatee |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Energy Fire
| FIRE - LOW. SRQ has recorded 1.87in of precipitation so far this month. And, they are stating our FIRE HAZARD is Moderate. However, we have recorded 4.17in of precipitation this month. Soil around us is somewhat “soggy” to walk on.
ENERGY - Slightly below normal at this time. Our daytime and nighttime temperatures are slightly below normal.
GENERAL - Pleasant weather in our area of Florida. Nice days with some afternoon clouds and cooler temperatures along with lower humidity. Yesterday’s Evening News Weather listed our Dew Point at 66°! That is really good Florida Weather. |
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9/23/2023 | HI-HI-87 | HI | Hawaii |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| Received 3/4 inch of rain from more light showers during evenings and early mornings this week, although overall precipitation for this month is very low. A lot of tiny flying insects and ants have come out. |
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9/23/2023 | IL-BN-19 | IL | Boone |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| Light to moderate rains most every day this week added up to 1.28”, keeping the top 10” of soil more or less wet while deeper soil has yet to benefit. That said, it appears that this area is no longer moderately dry but mildly dry. Area waterways are showing improvement, mostly due to their headwaters receiving more copious amounts of rain than the local area. Surface flora is looking lush and healthy with area lawns needing mowing about every 5 days. Some local corn fields are still green while others are turning brown. Soybeans are generally turning yellow to brown now. Trees are looking better but still need a good soaking to reach deeper roots. There’s been a noticeable uptick in wildlife activity. We noticed a small murmuration of what appeared to be starlings with their appealing patterns in the sky. Robins are also beginning to flock, getting ready for fall migration no doubt. Squirrels and rabbits are becoming more active while other small animals have left numerous droppings on our driveway. Our nearby giant bald-faced hornets’ nest doesn’t seem as active lately. Maybe they’re finishing their life cycle there. |
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9/23/2023 | IL-MD-37 | IL | Madison |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
| With only 0.15 inches of Precipitation this week, the Corn was harvested with Great dust clouds evident. The Beans are brown and burnt as ever, the Grass of the Lawns has all turned brown, and The Creeks are low with the flow barely covering the bed at under a foot deep. Our Lake is 18 inches low, and the Mississippi River is at an all-time low! When a spade is used to the soil, the soil is not hard but a crumbling chunk of dirt throughout the entire spade, 12 inches deep! |
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9/23/2023 | IN-AL-42 | IN | Allen |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| Last appreciable rain was 32 days ago, and it shows. Turf grasses dormant. Landscape plants showing significant stress. Creek out back now completely dry. |
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9/23/2023 | IN-FL-3 | IN | Fulton |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
| Soil is dry, a lot of dust when I mow my lawn. |
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9/23/2023 | IN-PS-7 | IN | Posey |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
| Quite dry. Evergreen shrubs stressed by last winter's sudden extreme temp drop are dying. Stressed trees are suffering sudden death (oak and dogwood). |
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9/23/2023 | IA-DL-40 | IA | Dallas |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| Cooler weather and 1.18" of precip have helped the dry conditions a little this week. The grass has greened up and started to grow again. Rivers/ ponds still at below normal levels. |
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9/23/2023 | IA-HR-16 | IA | Harrison |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
| Conditions continue to be very dry, with several small rain events totaling 0.21. Rivers in area continue to run very low., and lawns have many brown areas. Weather has been great for the harvest. |
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9/23/2023 | IA-LN-49 | IA | Linn |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| 0.56 rain received this week. Station total thus far for the month is 1.01. Prism Portal is 3.89. My grass is still brown and patchy. No changes to the Drought Category,which is D-3. Some mowing and watering was witnessed. Air Quality Good to Moderate, with the exception of some counties in Western Iowa. Active burn bans-19 counties. Windows and AC were used. Leaves are continuing to fall in colors, red was seen this week. Decrease in animals/birds/insects. Overall mood-Rain relief much appreciated. Noteworthy Events-9/22/2023 Tornado Warning alerts on weather radio twice. Flash Flood warning was also issued. Thunderstorm watch and warning currently in place for most counties in the state as of today’s report.
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9/23/2023 | KS-BU-25 | KS | Butler |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| Happy Autumn! And it's going to start off a dry one. Grass has stopped growing and things are getting dusty once again. Bottom line is that we've received just 17.17 inches of rain this year. Normal through the end of September here is 31.58 . Not sure how we haven't had at least some water restrictions. Birds remain active but haven't seen many wasps recently. Creek remains low and is stagnating in parts. Cracks remain in the soil. |
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9/23/2023 | KS-JO-53 | KS | Johnson |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| Three and a half inches of rain over this last week have soaked the ground quite well. Fall flowers are blooming well. It is quite easy to pull deep rooted plants that are not wanted. |
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9/23/2023 | KS-KW-2 | KS | Kiowa |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife
| 4.08 inches of rain last week soaked the soil up good. All the vegetation is in good condition now. The ponds caught some water but are still under half full, the creek is running normal for this time of year. Wheat planting is underway and should progress rapidly in the next 2 weeks. |
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9/23/2023 | KY-CM-3 | KY | Cumberland |
Moderately Dry
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Agriculture
| .29 inches of rain this week. Two days with rain. Usual fall dry conditions. |
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9/23/2023 | LA-AS-20 | LA | Ascension Parish |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
| Week of September 16-22, 2023 Brignac, Louisiana.
The extreme drought conditions persist for another week with very little possibility of future meaningful rain. State wide ban on burning of any kind. Temperatures in the mid 90s, 40-50% relative humidity, and winds blowing 5-15 mph predicted for next week. Ground cracks of 3/4-1” on bare ground expanded. Brown pine trees joined stressed and dead water oak trees dotting the roadsides.
Tent caterpillars which were increasing in numbers in early August, seem to have disappeared during this drought. Lawn grasses are parched if not irrigated. Have been running private well water every day watering a different area of the landscape through impact sprinklers and drip hoses. Another large limb fell out of the water oak tree on Monday. Large containers with petunias, Tacoma, and lantana plants require daily watering. Lots of mosquitoes in the evening. Could be a result of my daily irrigation. |
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9/23/2023 | MD-BL-25 | MD | Baltimore |
Severely Wet
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife
| Yesterday when I said no rain in sight I forgot about what was coming up from the south it has been raining since 12:00 last night but on the light side only 0.33 inches.I expect it to rain the rest of the day.Plants are very well,an fire danger is low. |
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9/23/2023 | MA-BA-51 | MA | Barnstable |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| good rainfall |
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9/23/2023 | MA-BE-21 | MA | Berkshire |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| Over the past week there was 1.50" of rain. The soil is very workable, not too wet or dry. |
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9/23/2023 | MI-IH-32 | MI | Ingham |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| Only a trace of rain this week. Still cleaning up from tornado. Tomatoes and summer squash are done. Harvesting green beans, the remainder of the sweet corn, peppers, lima beans. Creek level is low, not only from absence of rain because much of it is blocked by downed trees. |
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9/23/2023 | MN-MW-8 | MN | Mower |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
| Only the second "Severely Dry" entry I've ever made. D4 Exceptional Drought continues. Local water bodies are low. Wildlife remain active, but some songbirds are more sluggish than they should be. Bird bath active. Hummingbirds remain. Corn and soybean fields appear stunted, some being cut already, little productivity on the plants (spoken as a non-farmer but you get my drift). Lawn and potted plants require watering to stay green. Some pine trees are yellowing at branch ends. Significantly warmer than usual for this time of year. |
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9/23/2023 | MN-WR-42 | MN | Wright |
Severely Dry
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Plants & Wildlife
| remain in extreme drought. lakes with blue-green algal blooms. perennials and shrubs wilting despite watering. trees loosing leaves permaturely. |
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9/23/2023 | MT-RV-18 | MT | Ravalli |
Moderately Dry
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Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| Although we received .22" of rain in the past week, and at the moment everything is damp, overall it is still quite dry. Approaching the end of the water year, we are well below the previous 4 years. Bone dry under the trees. Many plants turning color early and dropping their leaves. Local streams very low. At least it was cooler with some light rain the past few days, with low fire danger currently. Precip the last 2 months has been variable and spotty, with some areas getting lots, and other nearby areas, like here, getting very little. |
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9/23/2023 | NM-BR-239 | NM | Bernalillo |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| There was a little more rain early in the week, bringing our September total precipitation to 0.97 inches. The 30-yr PRISM average total for September is 1.26 inches. The temperature for the last few days was above normal, helping to dry out the soil once again. Only a few autumn flowers have appeared and the plants look very weak and small, much less than normal. Crops this year suffered from the last spring freeze and from the extreme heat of this summer. Our water supply is adequate. |
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9/23/2023 | NM-SN-3 | NM | Sandoval |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
| The water in some drainage areas have mosquitoes. We live by the flood control dam in Corrales Heights that has standing water in it. |
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9/23/2023 | NY-JF-48 | NY | Jefferson |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
| Soil conditions are about the same as last week but, slightly drier. Rainfall for the week 0.16", other moisture for the week was very heavy dew which was measure in the rain guage. 0.01" on 9/17, 9/21, and 9/23. Fall allergies are still moderate due to golden rod, ragweed, and tree pollen. Trees are starting to change color. The vegetable garden is pretty much done, except for fall vegetables (Tomatoes, squash, and Brussell Sprouts). St Lawrence River level is dropping a little more rapidly this week. Level is 21.1" above Low Water Datum (LWD). This is down 4.3" from last week. Water temperature is 68.9 deg F down 1.3 deg F. for last week. |
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9/23/2023 | NY-MR-89 | NY | Monroe |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| Week of (9/10/23-9/16/23) saw slightly more precipitation compared to last week. The precipitation during this week was a total of 0.33 inches and that was slightly more than the last update of a total of 0.24 inches for the previous week of (9/10/23-9/16/23). There is currently 1.22 inches for the month of September compared to the normal climatology precipitation for the month is 2.43 inches. The surface of the soil and the ground is slightly moist, but starting to dry up in some spots in the yard. The grass is green and gardens are doing good since they had received some precipitation this week, but some plants are drying up and needed manual watering once a week. New grass seeds planted in the yard voluntarily need daily watering due to the dry stretch of weather that had prevailed for most of the week. Fall foliage has been patchy with a few trees in the area starting to show the first signs of color change. |
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9/23/2023 | NY-WY-11 | NY | Wyoming |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
| Sunny and warm with light winds, then partly cloudy overnight. The high temperature was around seventy two degrees, and the low around forty seven degrees Fahrenheit. Songbirds are eating consistently. Gardens need watering, vegetable production is poor. Jerusalem Artichokes, Purple Asters and Goldenrod are in full bloom. Apples are ripening. Blackbird and swallow flocks are forming. Early corn is being harvested. Woodland undergrowth is dying back. Close to 75 percent of trees are getting leaf color, some leaves are falling. |
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9/23/2023 | NC-BC-105 | NC | Buncombe |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Water Supply & Quality
| no significant rainfall in two weeks has us drying out. Shrubs wilting in midday heat. Fall crops require irrigation. Streams and creeks low. Elevated fire danger. |
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9/23/2023 | NC-CH-61 | NC | Chatham |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| Conditions still near normal. Wildlife active and cooler temperatures herald Fall's arrival. |
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9/23/2023 | NC-PR-5 | NC | Perquimans |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
| Tropical storm passes through leaving 3.87" of rain. We have 4 weather alerts. Extreme tropical storm warning, storm surge, wind alert, flood watch. Woke this morning to a tornado warning. As storm passes all is good. No damage, just a little wet. Creek is high with water in ditches. |
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9/23/2023 | NC-RW-17 | NC | Rowan |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Relief, Response & Restrictions Water Supply & Quality
| Only 0.92" of rain so far in September 2023. Over 2" below normal so far with only 7 and 3/4 days to go. Leaves are falling off as if fall were in full swing on this very first day of Autumn 2023. Local farmers have used up most or nearly all of their irrigation ponds at this point. Wild fires are up and burning bans are still in effect. Water in wells in parts of our county are reaching water level lows. Our Yadkin Pee Dee River provides for our city folks as its origins are in our NC mountains. They to our west are fairing better than us in rainfall this month , as are our counties near the coast. |
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9/23/2023 | OH-AS-2 | OH | Ashland |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| This past week's precipitation only totaled: "T", which brings my "Condition Monitoring Report" for outdoor activity to 'Near Normal'. |
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9/23/2023 | OH-LC-10 | OH | Licking |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| We have had only 0.37" of rain in the last 29 days. Ground is hard and dry. Grass and flowers are very dry. Local streams are as dry as I have seen them in 20 years. However, crops still look good due to prior amounts of rain fall.. We are clearly below the 30 year average for the month. |
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9/23/2023 | OH-ST-11 | OH | Stark |
Moderately Dry
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Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
| Grasses going brown plants shedding leaves due to lack of water. Trees starting to turn fall colors. |
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9/23/2023 | OK-PH-1 | OK | Pushmataha |
Moderately Dry
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Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
| Even though drought conditions have remained a concern for several weeks now, it appears at least here at my station that soil moisture conditions are continuing to improve somewhat thanks to our recent rains. Our seven day storm total precipitation is 0.78 inches. Additional rainfall is expected later today into Sunday, and i am hopeful for a healthy storm total rainfall with this next couple of rounds of precipitation. Next, our plants seem to be responding to the increased moisture with our grass growing and our trees no longer have wilted leaves. Lastly, wildlife has been active with sightings of several birds and a Green Anole Lizard recently. |
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9/23/2023 | OR-BN-168 | OR | Benton |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| Think Fall season really upon us. Overnight temps have been down in the lower 40s a couple of times, highs mostly in the 70s. More trees turning colors other than brown, even a few reds and yellows. No precip as yet, but rain predicted for several days this coming week although amounts not ventured. Wildfire smoke seems to be much less, and surrounding views almost clear in the early mornings, though haze and wind does seem to build up some as day progresses. Forest Service has downgraded its fire danger signs a bit around here. Local small creeks still bone dry and waiting for a good rainy patch. |
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9/23/2023 | OR-CC-76 | OR | Clackamas |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| Normal this time of year is quite dry. The dept. of forestry has reduced their fire danger to low, from high. I cannot guess why they skipped over medium. Perhaps the dusting of snow on Mt. Hood had something to do with that. Grasses are greening up, bittercress is sprouting in places. Our creek is still very low. I believe the vultures left when the cold front moved through this week. The ravens were playing in the thermal all by themselves yesterday. I am busy making preparations for rain. Getting all the dry firewood under cover, shutting down the irrigation system, making sure tools and equipment are out of the weather. The hummingbird has been content without extra nectar lately. I noticed her taking advantage of the ripe fruit. Yellowjackets are fairly numerous and beginning to get a bit pesty. Spiders are abundant and busy. I walked the trails in the forest one day breaking many webs, and returned half an hour later to break the webs again. There are a lot of box elder bug nymphs in my firewood. |
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9/23/2023 | OR-CC-88 | OR | Clackamas |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Energy Fire
| Autumn arrived. Still dry, warm. Only 0.05" of precip this month. Just 1.17" of rain for the summer season. Effects from wildfire remain. Mean temp above average. |
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9/23/2023 | PA-HN-3 | PA | Huntingdon |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| We’ve had a stretch of a few days without any rain but conditions are still good. The river gauge is beginning to slip below the average. It looks like we are on the outer fringes of Tropical Storm Ophelia so we may get some meaningful rain from the storm. Hopefully just enough to keep things normal. |
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