12/9/2024 | AL-LS-36 | AL | Limestone |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
| no fall colors. Still quite dry. Evergreens are showing signs of distress. Birds are flocking to my feeders without much natural food resources. |
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12/9/2024 | AK-MS-12 | AK | Matanuska-Susitna |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife
| A much warmer period saw our snow pack decrease from 12 inches to 5.5 inches. We saw little snow but some bouts of freezing rain and sleet. I've seen no moose and only a few wild birds; it is almost as though this raw, damp weather is making everything hunker down. We really need to see this warm spell break down and get back to more normal temps especially as now, thanks to the slightly above freezing daytime temps, there's a thin layer of ice on almost all horizontal surfaces. Walking can be treacherous and even driving can have its moments. This is NOT the kind of winter weather I favor!! |
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12/9/2024 | CO-CR-18 | CO | Crowley |
Near Normal
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| Road and trail dust is kicking up so things are getting back to "normal". Good sized antelope herd in area. Haven't seen them this close to the populated area before. |
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12/9/2024 | CO-DL-54 | CO | Delta |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| No precip in the past week. Air quality has been generally good this past week. We are usually above the inversion that is trapping pollution down in the valley below. Warmer than normal temps for this time of year. Lows in the mid to 20s and highs in the mid 40s. Slight greening observed in our cold-season grass. Deer are enjoying that. There is some snow from the late November storm remaining on the ground in deeply shaded area only. |
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12/9/2024 | CO-EP-291 | CO | El Paso |
Mildly Wet
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| Soil in shady areas is completely moist. Good news for plants. |
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12/9/2024 | CO-GR-52 | CO | Grand |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| It's been almost two weeks since we've had measurable precipitation. Cold temps have kept snow on the ground but it is getting thin, so we're on the dry side of normal now. |
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12/9/2024 | CT-NL-19 | CT | New London |
NA
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General Awareness Fire Tourism & Recreation
| With almost 2" of rain since Thanksgiving, fire danger and drought conditions have moderated. The warmish temps and Christmas festivities are bringing shoppers/diners in droves - merchants are delighted. High moon tides force water across riverside streets. New "Road may flood" signs warn drivers. Migrating birds are gone; winter ducks have returned. |
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12/9/2024 | IN-AL-106 | IN | Allen |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| Wetlands and marshes are still dry or have very low water levels. It is possible to walk across Eagle Marsh in Fort Wayne without getting your feet wet. Waterfowl must congregate in the few puddles that remain. |
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12/9/2024 | IA-BT-11 | IA | Benton |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
| December came in with a trace of snow and high winds both of which caused travel woes. Temps were low for several days causing ice to form on the rivers and ponds. The Cedar River is quite low with mostly sandbars showing. Then this weekend the temps were back in the 40's and 50's clearing out the ice. |
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12/9/2024 | KY-HR-10 | KY | Harrison |
Mildly Dry
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Plants & Wildlife
| no rain until today. The S. Fork of the Licking River is about 1" over the low head dam at Robinson. |
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12/9/2024 | ME-SM-3 | ME | Somerset |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| 12.5" snow (1.11" SWE)for week. Snowpack: 10.5" (1.94" SWE). |
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12/9/2024 | MA-NF-1 | MA | Norfolk |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Relief, Response & Restrictions Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
| Little change in conditions over the past week. Short term dryness has been alleviated somewhat by recent precipitation and the low sun angle, but longer term indicators such as pond and lake levels remain low. Ground is unfrozen after the first snow of the season during the week which left a coating on the ground, but that has melted as of this morning. No watering restrictions are in place but many towns are asking for voluntary conservation. |
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12/9/2024 | MI-SW-12 | MI | Shiawassee |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health
| Over the last two weeks we had a small amount of snowfall, and a small amount of rainfall, but overall totaling no more than a tenth of an inch. Even though the soil is damp, it is far too little to be considered normal or average. Temperatures have fluctuated between normal and above normal during the same time. We are still seeing a lot of deer in the area, and bird activity at the feeders seems normal. The river level is close to normal still as well. To top it off, we even saw one stubborn dandelion blooming over the weekend. |
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12/9/2024 | MI-WY-33 | MI | Wayne |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture
| ground is hard, late fall crops have failed due to lack of moisture |
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12/9/2024 | MN-CS-35 | MN | Cass |
Moderately Dry
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| We did have 3-4 inches of snow on the ground until this morning. Yesterday the temperature remained about freezing with light rain most of the day so most of the snowpack we did have has disappeared |
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12/9/2024 | MN-HN-14 | MN | Hennepin |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
| We've had little precipitation in the last week. The vegetation is dry. Frost has extended approximately 6" below grade. Ponds and lakes are frozen over. |
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12/9/2024 | MN-SH-39 | MN | Sherburne |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
| Mostly Cloudy and 31 Hi 37 Wind SW 8 mph. Wind gusts up to 31 at times. |
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12/9/2024 | NE-LA-19 | NE | Lancaster |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Water Supply & Quality
| 20 days with no measurable precipitation. Surface soils have dried out and subsoil was probably not fully saturated with the wet November. Drought conditions remain. |
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12/9/2024 | NM-DA-371 | NM | Dona Ana |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
| No new precip since last report so, really nothing new to report. Plants are all dorment, roads are dry and powdery, and dirt stock tanks are all pretty much dry. Bird numbers are way down, wildlife are coming in to the pens to drink, especially the Gemsbok. Bees are out and about, coming to the feed stations in mass. |
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12/9/2024 | NM-SR-46 | NM | Sierra |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| Only a trace since the last report, so no change to mention. One creek still has water; as of late week a little snow was still visible on some north faces of the Black Range. Several winter bird species normally seen by now haven't appeared here so far. |
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12/9/2024 | NY-ES-6 | NY | Essex |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
| It’s been dry, but now that we’ve had snow, stream flow has increased. |
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12/9/2024 | NY-SF-92 | NY | Suffolk |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| In the past week we have had some rain/snow episodes, but not substantial enough to truly mitigate the drought. It’s also been colder than normal so whatever late fall plants were in bloom got zapped by freezing temps. Squirrels are very busy digging up the garden beds and planters which are not yet frozen. |
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12/9/2024 | NY-WY-11 | NY | Wyoming |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| Cloudy, windy and cool with gusty winds, then mostly cloudy overnight becoming calm. The high temperature was around forty three degrees, and the low around thirty one degrees Fahrenheit. Songbirds are eating a feeder full every six to seven days. Intermittent streams are flowing. Snow has compacted with a few bare areas. |
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12/9/2024 | NC-MS-19 | NC | Madison |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Fire Water Supply & Quality
| We've had some snow and rain which has eased our dry conditions and brought us back to normal conditions. The water levels in creeks and springs is good. The risk of risk of fire is lower as well. |
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12/9/2024 | OH-FR-111 | OH | Franklin |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| 12/01-12/07 /2024
Precipitation: Trace of measurable precipitation for the week. Temps ranged from highs between 32° and 41°, lows from 12° to 20°.
Plant/lawn conditions: Typical late fall conditions
Summary: A trace of snow one day, a trace of rain another, otherwise a very breezy week with cooler than normal temps. |
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12/9/2024 | OK-MY-10 | OK | Mayes |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness
| Though we had little rain last week (0.04"), temperatures were cool so we didn't have a whole lot of evaporation. |
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12/9/2024 | PA-WT-18 | PA | Westmoreland |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| had a nice blast of Arcticair, however its out of here for the most part, if this is just a taste of whats to come though, well, it'll be worth watching. right now though all is normal. |
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12/9/2024 | TX-CMR-85 | TX | Cameron |
Mildly Wet
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| not watering |
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12/9/2024 | WI-MW-18 | WI | Milwaukee |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| Much below normal temperatures early in the week then much above the past few days for a slight overall warm with dry conditions for the period.
(03 DEC to 09 DEC)
Precipitation for the period was 0.01". -0.56” for the period.
Cal yr 45.18” +10.38” (2nd wettest to date so far) +5.82” above annual seasonal normal.
Snow for period was 0.2”, -0.6”
Frost Depth, under sod, averaged 1.6” for the period. Peak was 2.5”, min depth was 1.5”
Temperatures averaged 30.1 degrees, +1.7 above normal for the period.
Soil temperatures, for the period, at 2” have averaged 29.0 degrees, 4” average is 30.7 degrees, 8” average is 34.1 degrees and 20” average is 40.3 degrees. -3.3 overall decrease, on average, from the past week.
Meteorological Winter has begun. Lawns are dormant. Birds are frequenting the bird feeder. Winter birds are frequenting at feeder.
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12/9/2024 | WY-FM-21 | WY | Fremont |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| Earlier snow pack is nearly gone but moisture remains frozen in the upper soil horizon except for exposed south and east facing slopes. Forage still available for livestock and wildlife as this drought continues. No severe cold yet. |
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12/9/2024 | WY-JN-33 | WY | Johnson |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
| NWS says we are in an extreme drought |
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