3/25/2023 | AR-FK-42 | AR | Faulkner |
Severely Wet
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General Awareness
| We had over three inches of rain this week on already partially saturated ground. Non-rainy days tended to be warm and humid. |
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3/25/2023 | CO-DG-176 | CO | Douglas |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| Weather has been colder than normal and plants a slower in emerging. |
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3/25/2023 | CT-NL-29 | CT | New London |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Tourism & Recreation
| The mud season has passed, forest trails are drying up, streams not as full because of little snow melt. |
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3/25/2023 | DE-NC-10 | DE | New Castle |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| Springs flowing normally. |
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3/25/2023 | DE-SS-3 | DE | Sussex |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
| 3/19-3/25 was a mostly breezy week with only one rain event for .2". Fields being turned and manure being spread. My daffodils are up but not yet blooming. Trees are shedding bud debris and pollen. Wide range of temperatures and much wind. |
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3/25/2023 | FL-AL-50 | FL | Alachua |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| Lake Alice and the golf course ponds about average. Plants getting watered as its getting hot now. 30s on Monday first day of spring, then two days later, summer temps! |
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3/25/2023 | FL-MA-10 | FL | Manatee |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Energy Fire
| No significant changes from last week except to report NO PRECIPITATION at all. Not even a Trace to report. Fire Hazard remains Very High. Along with higher daytime and nighttime temperatures resulting in higher running of the AC. Which in turn increases our energy useage. Looking at our current 10 day forecast shows no chances of precipitation. We PRAY FOR RAIN! |
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3/25/2023 | FL-OS-36 | FL | Osceola |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife
| Surface water - ditches, swales, wetlands - has dried. Flood control ditches and canals are low. Ground cover in the forest is dry to depth. Non-irrigated grasses and shrubs are dormant or dead lending more potential fuel to a fire. Wildlife is stressed coming closer to houses that normal. Deer are now eating plants that are not normally part of their diet. With no rain in the forecast and increasing temperatures, the risk of fire will increase each day. |
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3/25/2023 | FL-PN-79 | FL | Pinellas |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation
| Not hearing anything about the red tide. No rain, irritating three times weekly |
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3/25/2023 | GA-DK-51 | GA | DeKalb |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| This morning's rain ended any concerns about dryness. |
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3/25/2023 | GA-FN-11 | GA | Fannin |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife Relief, Response & Restrictions Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
| Evidence of damage to new leaf out after hard freeze the past ten days. Warm and spring like the last 2 days. light showers with regularity so far this month.A couple of burn warnings due to low relative humidity though someone is burning as we have been socked in with smoke. Perhaps prescribed burn or more like burn related to new home consturction.:(
Lake Blue Ridge level is up somewhat. Moratorium on new water hookups for the county. Apparently there are a lot of water leaks and they are trying to get a handle on it. |
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3/25/2023 | GA-FL-23 | GA | Floyd |
Severely Wet
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General Awareness
| to wet for plowing. |
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3/25/2023 | IL-BN-19 | IL | Boone |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| Hardly any precip occurred this week until last night’s winter storm that brought us 4.9” of heavy, wet snow with a SWE of .58”. We were approaching a mildly wet soil condition but now it appears moderately wet will remain. My spring is currently flowing at almost the same rate as last week with the local creek and river down just a bit. The bigger Rock River is still on the high side but not excessively so. As of yesterday, the two local geese were still hanging out here and appeared content . Maple trees were budding and sap was visibly dripping on the pavement. Ramps, daffodils and hyacinths continued to grow with the hyacinths not too far from flowering and area lawns were beginning to get green. But right now the ground is covered in wet snow, the trees are white with their branches drooping while heavy stratus clouds persist. It looks like winter all over again. Maybe this cool March will be balanced out with a warm April, time will tell. |
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3/25/2023 | KS-BU-25 | KS | Butler |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| In talking with a few people this past week, ponds are lower than what I've seen. Creek is lower as well. Soil hard, dry and cracked in exposed areas. Grass remains dormant, for the most part as are trees. Bird activity has ramped up, though and squirrels are busy. |
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3/25/2023 | KS-JO-53 | KS | Johnson |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| Lawn grass is beginning to grow, and more bulbs, like hyacinth, have flowers popping up. The plant world is awakening for Spring. |
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3/25/2023 | KS-KW-2 | KS | Kiowa |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife
| No moisture this week didn't help improve the growing conditions. Signs of spring are all about, cool season plants are starting, migrating birds are coming back and buds are swelling on the trees. Hopefully April showers are on the way. |
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3/25/2023 | KY-CB-10 | KY | Campbell |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| There was very heavy rainfall the last 2 days. The ground is extremely saturated. Local stream flow much above average. Pond level above average. The lawn is extremely soft and mushy. Grass is much greener than normal and now is beginning to grow quite rapidly in some areas. Lawn appears to need first cutting which is about a week earlier than usual; but will be unable to cut lawn until it dries out some. Ground is way too soft to mow lawn. Despite the prolonged cold snap during the middle of March, weeds are now growing rapidly as the grown warms. According to the NWS, there is a wide area of flood advisory which encompasses our local area. Rainfall has been considerably above normal for March as of the 25 so far by approximately 70 percent.
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3/25/2023 | MD-BL-25 | MD | Baltimore |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness Fire Plants & Wildlife
| We got more rain overnight 0.27 inches the ground is quit wet. Plants like the temp and the rain. fire danger is low. |
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3/25/2023 | MD-WR-31 | MD | Worcester |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
| This past week brought a hard freeze to parts of the area. Temperatures right along the ocean stayed above freezing, however inland areas were well below freezing. I recorded a low of 27 on the 20th, but more inland locations had temperatures down to 20. When I was out and about, I noticed that some blossoms were burned by the cold, especially the magnolia blossoms. Conditions are becoming dry as rainfall has been below average since the start of the year. So far, March has had less than 50% of the normal rain. Pollen is becoming noticeable. Frogs have been peeping for about 3 weeks now, and wasps and slugs are now active. |
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3/25/2023 | MA-ES-64 | MA | Essex |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| Only a Trace of rain in the last week. Ponds and streams are at normal levels and flows. Daffodils still haven't blossomed. Trees are starting to bud but no leaves yet. |
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3/25/2023 | MA-HD-28 | MA | Hampden |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| Weekly precipitation of 0.05 inch of rain. Rivers somewhat high and are visibly flowing. Birds have been checking out the bird houses. Seeing more Canada geese, including one flock that had an unusually long formation. Daffodils are blooming on the south side of the house. |
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3/25/2023 | MI-WS-11 | MI | Washtenaw |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Water Supply & Quality
| Precipitation but below normal the past week. More spring bulbs coming up but cool temps are keeping trees and shrubs in dormancy still. Lots of clouds, not much sun. Chipmunkoccasionally visible,lots of bird activity at feeders. Feels like spring but parts of state still getting snow. |
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3/25/2023 | MI-WY-125 | MI | Wayne |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| Near normal conditions. Some rain later in the week. |
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3/25/2023 | MO-NW-4 | MO | Newton |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| Spring rains have come and the drought conditions are in the normal range again after many months of severely dry times, Shoal Creek is flooding in some areas this week following exceptional rains this week causing difficult situations south and east of here. Several water rescues and loss of life situations have occurred this week. Deer, Turkeys, Bobcats, Armadillos, Groundhogs, Skunks, Opossums are active and all have been through the yard this week. Fire danger is lower the first time in several months. Vegetation is greening up and the Redbud and other flowering trees are beginning to bloom. |
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3/25/2023 | MT-LN-6 | MT | Lincoln |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Water Supply & Quality
| Not much new precipitation the past week, and finally some snow melt. |
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3/25/2023 | NM-BR-239 | NM | Bernalillo |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health Water Supply & Quality
| 0.40 in. of precipitation fell this week, so the soil is moist. Air quality has been good due to no blowing dust and the rain washing out pollution. Plants are healthy with fruit trees blooming. It is now worry season: will the temperature stay above freezing so that the fruit trees do not get damaged? Our water supply is adequate. |
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3/25/2023 | NY-WY-11 | NY | Wyoming |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| Mostly cloudy and cold with light winds and rain at the end of the observation period. The high temperature was around forty two degrees, and the low around thirty degrees Fahrenheit. Songbirds are eating more. Intermittent streams are at winter levels. Grackles were spotted. Crocuses are emerging. |
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3/25/2023 | NC-BC-105 | NC | Buncombe |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health Water Supply & Quality
| Windy conditions saved us from total burn from a deep freeze. Creeks and streams near normal. Moisture in the ground as we enter summer planting season. Pollen at all time highs with early bud break due to above normal temperatures.Wind and low humidities have kept fire danger high. |
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3/25/2023 | NC-CH-61 | NC | Chatham |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health Water Supply & Quality
| Conditions have changed to mildly dry. We have had lower humidity and less rain in the last two weeks. Temperatures have risen to above "average" over the last several days with a return to "average" into next week. Plants are leafing out and birds, rabbits and deer are active. People are cleaning and preparing their gardens in our neighborhood for spring and summer. |
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3/25/2023 | NC-GL-16 | NC | Guilford |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
| The ground and the yard are dry. We need some rain for growing things now. |
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3/25/2023 | NC-OR-60 | NC | Orange |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| Very little rain in the last week, but the soil is not dry. |
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3/25/2023 | NC-PR-5 | NC | Perquimans |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
| .04" of rain for week. Low temp Monday night of 28 bringing frost Tuesday morning and ice in water buckets. Near 80 yesterday. Lawn mowers ready to go for another season. Baby goats ready for warm weather and green grass. Many purple martins at colony site. We have gone from winter to summer. |
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3/25/2023 | NC-WK-283 | NC | Wake |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| Spring is trying to arrive and stay. Temperatures continue to swing up to near record highs then down to below average. Frequent showers are helping the water table. Plants are looking good, bulbs and shrubs in bloom, trees budding. My new dogwood is flowering, survived last summer's drought. Pollen is ever present. Now to see what the next week brings. |
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3/25/2023 | OH-AS-2 | OH | Ashland |
Severely Wet
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General Awareness
| With a rain accumulation total of 2.04" in the last 4 days...my "Condition Monitoring" report for outdoor activities is 'Severely Wet.' |
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3/25/2023 | OH-HM-24 | OH | Hamilton |
Severely Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife Society & Public Health
| 3.58 inches of rain in the past 24 hours and 6.86 inches of rain in March which is much above normal. Local rivers and streams are at bank full or in flood, soils are saturated with abundant standing water and hillside runoff. |
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3/25/2023 | OH-LC-10 | OH | Licking |
Moderately Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
| 2.2" of precipitation during the last 4 days. Grass around the house beginning to turn green and some agricultural field's winter wheat quite green though there is standing water in places in the fields. Local streams are near or at bank level and some flooding of Dry Creek Road where it is near Dry Creek stream. Ground is saturated. More rain is expected in the next 24 hours. |
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3/25/2023 | OH-MD-1 | OH | Medina |
Severely Wet
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General Awareness Agriculture
| Saturated soil in all neighboring yards, mine included with more rain coming today. |
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3/25/2023 | RI-KN-36 | RI | Kent |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
| No rain this past week |
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3/25/2023 | SC-DC-55 | SC | Dorchester |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Water Supply & Quality
| Water level in the retention pond is down by 3 inches. Rain in past 2 weeks was .87 inch. All trees have leafed out, some more than others. Birds are pairing up and building nests. |
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3/25/2023 | SC-RC-12 | SC | Richland |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
| We've had no rain over the last 7 days. Temperatures reached the highest so far this year during the last 2 days. Low temperatures about a week or so ago caused our centipede to return to dormancy and new green shoots are just starting to reappear now. Soils are somewhat moist; we continue to water our new sod to assure that it survives. |
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3/25/2023 | SC-SP-140 | SC | Spartanburg |
Near Normal
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Plants & Wildlife
| Observer: James Adcock.
No recorded precipitation. Angiosperms started blooming 02/14/2023.Still flowering as expected. |
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3/25/2023 | TX-MSN-8 | TX | Mason |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness Agriculture Fire Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation Water Supply & Quality
| More of the same. The lack of precipitation continues but conditions are remaining pretty constant. I measured only a trace of rain this week and our deficit is now 1.08 inches for the year (23% of average). I have not observed the ground getting hard or seen any lack of spring growth in the area. The Llano River continues to flow at record or near-record lows and the USGS reports this morning it is flowing at Hwy 87 at 56.7 cfs (record low 54 cfs in 2013) compared to the 51-year mean of 195 cfs. The drought index is unchanged since last week. Mason County continues to be under a burn ban. |
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3/25/2023 | TX-VV-16 | TX | Val Verde |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife
| Because of the recent rain most of the native plants are starting to bloom except for the ones that died from the freeze |
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3/25/2023 | TX-WM-316 | TX | Williamson |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation
| Another disappointing week -- four "storms" which dumped lots of rain on North Texas and the southeast managed barely half an inch this far south. California washes away and we beg for rain! Spring is officially here, but the pecan trees are just getting the message, barely perceptable leaves, the last trees to do so as usual. Gardens are thriving when they have supplimental water, as the temps are rising, and we avoided any frost during the last cold spell. And the wildflowers are at their peak right here (bluebonnets, especially) -- time to take a spring drive! |
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3/25/2023 | VA-PW-13 | VA | Prince William |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture Plants & Wildlife
| The FoxMill Weather Station temperature-compensated soil moisture tension readings at the 3 and 5 inch levels are 16.1 and 31.4 centibars respectively in Buckhall marine clay with 3.7% fine gravel/particulates and 3¾ inch mowed dense fescue overcover where the ground sensors are located. Ground temps at the same depths are 49.6°F and 49.4°F. Soil moisture education note: Barring a torrential downpour resulting in standing field water, the soil moisture levels at 3 & 5 inches in the station’s marine clay will lag rainfall by 12 - 30 hours due to the fescue moisture uptake and slow percolation through the clay soil. Levels at 8 & 16 inches are relatively stable.
2022 end-of-year totals: precip 47.24 inches, ETo 31.262 inches resulting in a surfeit of 15.978 inches of runoff.
February 2023 month-end totals: precip 2.57 inches; ET 1.359 inch resulting in a ground moisture surfeit of 1.211 inch.
A total of 0.72 inch of precipitation was recorded in the past seven days since the last Condition Monitoring Report was submitted. Weekly evapotranspiration (ETo) total was 0.635 inch resulting in a 0.085 inch ground moisture surfeit.
Weekly average ETo 0.091 inch per day.
This morning’s weighted soil-moisture tension reading has us in the 3rd quarter of the very-wide “Near Normal” range in Buckhall marine clay as defined by CoCoRaHS.
March 2023 cumulative totals-to-date: precip 1.37 inch; ETo 1.870 inch resulting in a monthly ground moisture deficit of 0.500 inch which correlates nicely (high R^2) with the observed soil moisture readings after accounting for the last precipitation type, weighted rate of fall, amount, duration, surface water runoff, ground temperatures, ETo and the previous 30 day rolling measured data.
Yearly moisture (2023) through this morning’s 0600 hour CoCoRaHS reading: precip 5.69 inches, ETo 4.002 inches, resulting in a surfeit of 1.688 inches of runoff. NOTE: The Dulles Airport historical precipitation yearly average for the recorded period 1964 - 2022 was 41.76 inches; the wettest year on record was 66.75 inches of precipitation in 2018. Washington DC’s historical yearly average for the same period was 40.45 inches; wettest year in recorded history was also 2018, 66.28 inches. Same with FoxMill Weather Station, 2018 was our wettest year on record, 71.47 inches of precipitation with a historical average of 53.34 inches, all measured on an 8-inch NWS Standard Rain Gauge.
Yearly comparisons as of last Saturday’s report: Precipitation — FoxMill Sta 4.97 inches, Dulles Aprt 4.37 inches (18.2 miles N), National Aprt 4.38 inches (23.8 miles NEbE). Seasonal Snowfall (2022 - 2023) — FoxMill 0.3 inch, Dulles 0.4 inch, National 0.4 inch.
FoxMill Weather Station provides an automated live weather summary by merely clicking on the URL below. Note that the IP is collected for statistical reasons to analyze the CoCoRaHS usage patterns.
https://tinyurl.com/FoxMill
Data reported by: observer2 (ampersat) foxmill.us at FoxMill Weather Station, Saturday morning, 25 March 2023. |
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3/25/2023 | CAN-MB-43 | CAN | Manitoba |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Agriculture
| 0.03 inch precip this week, 0.3 inch new snow, snowpack average ~11.0 inches. Water table dropped 0.5 inch and is 0.8 inches below 8 year average. Weather continues mostly sunny, cool and dry with little snowmelt. |
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3/25/2023 | CAN-NS-182 | CAN | Nova Scotia |
Near Normal
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General Awareness Plants & Wildlife Tourism & Recreation
| For the week of 19-25 March: (3.0+ 0+ 0+ 0+ 0+ 19.5SWE/RN+ 0)= 22.0mm, Near Normal. Our daily high's: +3C to +9C; nightly low's: -4C to +2C. Every day we had wind. No SOG remaining. Although a bit cool, when the sun shines, the garden bulbs are showing their tips. There is plenty of moisture in the ground. And this morning, there were song birds tweeting, sounded amazing. The deer are taking every advantage of newly greening grass. Our neighbour had five on their large treed lawn yesterday. Pheasants are scurrying in an out of the woods. Have not seen any rabbits yet. The Geese are honking in all their glory. Got to love the sounds of Spring. People are getting out for walks more, bundled up against the wind. Hard to believe its 25 March already. Hopefully, April will bring a bit of warmth. Strong hopes for a good, long growing season for our farmers, and a fair summer for seasonal travellers. Come on down to the Bay! |
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3/25/2023 | CAN-ON-210 | CAN | Ontario |
Mildly Dry
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Agriculture
| most of the snow is gone some rain has come but not large amounts. |
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