Who has severe drought conditions in there area?

[2 Seam Fastball]

While I don't the NYC resevoires are completely filled to the max.

[Guest]

We are on verge of beginning a drought here in SE texas - haven't had rain in over 3 weeks - someone correct me if I am wrong - getting really dry - need some rain bad.

Patricia

[2 Seam Fastball]

Patricia Ill do an Indian rain dance for you.

[Nalora]

I look at the drought monitor weekly at this site:

http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html

Texas and Oklahoma are just beginning to be a bit dry.

Nalora

[Guest]

Thanks Nalora for the link. My water bill is going to be outrageous with all the watering I am having to do on my garden.

Patricia

[azsnowman]

I am entering into the "8th YEAR" of drought, I see by the map, I'm now at severe, that's SOMEWHAT of an improvment over the last 3 years, we have been in *exceptional conditions* for those years, the moisture we received in Feb, Mar did VERY little to improve conditions.

Dennis

[BreinLa]

When you do your raindance for ticka please ask the rain people to send me some too lol

[Nalora]

Thanks Nalora for the link. My water bill is going to be outrageous with all the watering I am having to do on my garden.

Patricia

Yea, I am already a slave to my hose. But the good news is the earlier rains came just in time for the wheat crop up in North Central Oklahoma, My boyfriend and I are traveling up to Enid this Sunday to have a look at it while it is still green and "smelling sweet as the wind comes right behind the rain..."

It is a yearly tradition for us, along with going to Pauls Valley for the pecans, and Stratford for the peach crop.

Nalora

[Stephanie]

Not this year - last year by the summertime we were.

[Stormsfury]

Not this year - last year by the summertime we were.

Before the rains began back here in earnest in the Southeast and particularly South Carolina, ALL of South Carolina was in extreme drought - the first time in its history such an event had occurred ... the rains had begun in June, but really kicked into overdrive in August and have continued since, with January and February being the exception ...
It's been drier so far this month and may be signalling the return of the pre-drought setup (La Niña) pattern which so crippled the Southland in drought the last few years (I hope not ... hopefully the good ground moisture will set off afternoon and evening thunderstorms we've so lacked during the 4 year drought).

Hope the drought across the stricken areas breaks soon.

[Aslkahuna]

"improved" to moderate drought this past winter, much of western and Northern AZ remains in severe to extreme drought conditions. The accumulated rainfall deficit here at the house since March 1995 is now some 26 inches which is a major loss of rainfall for an area that averages
13-18 inches of rain per year. Being an arid region it is very likely that we will never make that up. To make matters worse, much of that deficit is comprised of winter rain and snowfall which is where our yearly supply of water comes from-the Summer rains tend to runoff rapidly or evaporate under the high Sun conditions. Most climatologists locally agree that the outlook is for more of a tendency towards drought than wetness for the forseeable future though there may be wet years interspersed. This is in keeping with the current negative phase of the PDO which tends to support and aggravate drought conditions west of the Mississippi River.

Steve

[southerngale]

I guess the reason we are in Abnormally Dry and not moderate is because it was so wet before this dry spell started. Of course this map is a week old. We've had another week of NO RAIN!

5-day forecast shows partly cloudy skies...no rain in sight. :o

[southerngale]

Still no rain, and we're in moderate now.

[Guest]

No drought here this year..........We are up a few inches thanks to the last couple of weeks..........Have had almost 6 inches of rain just this month..........And more is expected this weekend.............The place i believe to have the worse drought conditions is the northern Rockies in such states as Utah,Idaho, Parts of Wyoming and parts of Montana as well..............Other dry areas i would say are The SW US and Michigan in the lakes area as well is very dry.............

[PTrackerLA]

We're in moderate drought now too. Arghh, I hate droughts!

[Nalora]

Officially, Central Oklahoma is 5 inches below normal for rainfall.

Hoping for some the next couple days....

(But praying for Arizona and South Texas)

Nalora