To say the last few months have been dry is a bit of an understatement. Since August 1st, only a sliver of Newton and Benton counties (northwest Indiana) and the tiniest speck of Warrick County (southwest Indiana) have had above-normal precipitation.
Our dry spell continues. Sure, there’s been a few passing showers, but Indiana is quickly seeing impacts magnify from the lack of rain.
Wednesday, September 6th was the first day in what seemed like a long, long time, that rain fell across most of Indiana.
We were on a good stretch where consistent and sometimes too much rainfall eliminated drought throughout Indiana.
Drought and abnormally dry conditions continue to improve across most of Indiana (Figure 1).
Recent precipitation events have allowed periodic rainfall to hit most places across Indiana.
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).
For the past seven weeks, abnormally dry conditions gradually spread and intensified across Indiana to eventually cover over 98% of 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.
After several weeks of little-to-no rain, Indiana welcomed some much-needed precipitation over the last several days. While amounts ranged from 1-to-3 inches (except for a few counties in west-northwest Indiana (see Figure 1)), the state is still several inches from recovering from the deficit and relieving most impacts. The U.S. Drought Monitor this week (based upon data through the morning of Tuesday, June 13th) now has all of Indiana in some category of abnormal dryness or drought (Figure 2). The driest location is northwestern Indiana where severe drought (D2) is impacting several counties. Most of northern and some central Indiana counties are in moderate drought (D1) with southern Indiana Abnormally Dry (D0). After the additional precipitation that fell on June 13th along with what is forecasted (Figure 3) through next Thursday, Jun 22nd, there is a strong probability that drought will not worsen for much of the southern half of[Read More…]
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