After another week of decent rains across the state (Figure 1), abnormally dry and drought conditions continue to improve according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor (Figure 2).
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Timely rains have returned over the past few weeks and have helped crop conditions across the state.
While drought has been on many people’s minds lately, Indiana has had several rain events pass through that brought much needed moisture.
Cool mornings and warm afternoons have made conditions pleasant across the state.
Through the first 18 days of April, temperatures ran 5.5◦F above normal statewide (Figure 1).
Chance for above-normal precipitation in about 2 weeks, but for this time of the year, that doesn’t mean much.
After another wet weekend and cooler temperatures to start this week, it may be surprising to hear that conditions will be changing back to warm and dry for the next several weeks. Climate models are strongly favoring above-normal temperature throughout the rest of September with a slight favoring of below-normal precipitation. Abnormally dry conditions continue to persist in counties across northern Indiana, but the spatial extent is gradually shrinking (Figure 1). It is too soon to tell if the upcoming warm and dry outlooks will be strong enough to expand and intensify those drier areas or if a few periodic rain events will be enough to keep conditions relatively stable. Monthly (October) and seasonal (September-October-November) outlooks were released on 15 September 2022. For both of these time frames, the outlooks are favoring above-normal temperatures to continue with below-normal precipitation across Indiana (Figure 2). With each day that passes, we get[Read More…]
September has gotten off to a warmer-than-normal start through September 7, averaging 2.1◦F above normal across the state (Figure 1).
Rainfall over the past few weeks has helped to improve drought conditions across much of Indiana.
The June 2022 state average precipitation was 2.42 inches below the 1991-2020 normal, which ended up being the 14th driest on record.
