| 12/20/2024 | AZ-PM-82 | AZ | Pima |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
| No change from previous week. Hard to tell if our desert environment is getting drier. All grasses in desert areas I see are brown and dormant. |
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| 12/20/2024 | CO-BO-568 | CO | Boulder |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
| The last significant precipitation was at the end of November. December has been dry so far with mostly above average temperatures. It has been windy the last couple of weeks which is further drying out the soil. Conditions remain moderately dry, but moving in the wrong direction. |
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| 12/20/2024 | CO-BO-583 | CO | Boulder |
Severely Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
| SOIL MOISTURE/TEMPERATURE
6-inch depth: Temp = 40 F, Moisture = 139 cb
12-inch depth: Temp = 60 F
18-inch depth: Moisture = 78 cb
ET: month to day: 0.58 inches, year-to-date: 31.47 inches |
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| 12/20/2024 | CO-GN-59 | CO | Gunnison |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
| Tough to say on the current conditions... November saw the most snowfall and precipitation that I've seen in 10 years measuring for Cocorahs...And now only 1.4" of snow has fallen in December, which is typically our snowiest month. Overall, with above average precip in WY2024 and above average start to WY2025, we are in good shape, but the winter pattern needs to shift soon or we will quickly be looking at drought conditions. Water year totals for the date: Total Snowfall: 43.8" - 100% of average | Total Precipitation: 4.88" - 129% of average | Snow Depth: 17.0" - 129% of average |
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| 12/20/2024 | KY-CM-3 | KY | Cumberland |
Moderately Wet
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Agriculture
| 2.1 inches of rain. 5 days out of 7 with rain. |
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| 12/20/2024 | MD-HW-44 | MD | Howard |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
| No effect |
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| 12/20/2024 | MA-ES-64 | MA | Essex |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
| .58 inches of rain in the last week. Temperatures all over the place high 50s one day and then below freezing, must be tough on plants. Ground not really frozen. |
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| 12/20/2024 | MA-HD-30 | MA | Hampden |
Moderately Dry
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General Awareness
Agriculture
Fire
Plants & Wildlife
| Some rain and a bit of snow has come our way but not nearly enough. Our local little brook , South Branch Mill River (into Springfield) and the larger one in town, The Scantic River (into Conn.), are both still way down on what would be normal for this time of year. They came up a bit when it rained but quickly dropped as there is nothing in ground storage to sustain the flow.
Forest fires are down and none locally for a couple weeks now.
Wildlife seems OK. Security camera caught an opossum the other night. Birds flock to the feeders and nothing seems unusual there.
At this time of year of course nothing is growing here.
Though we are going into a cold spell, it has been warmer this year than last. Smart thermostat says we burnt less oil compared to this time last year for the past four weeks.
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| 12/20/2024 | MN-SH-39 | MN | Sherburne |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
| Sunny today, yesterday snow. Cool today with a Hi of 20. |
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| 12/20/2024 | MO-OS-10 | MO | Osage |
Near Normal
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General Awareness
Agriculture
| Cattle pastures are near normal after a good rain last week. Some low spots are wet but most of the pastures and roads are dry but not dusty. Water in the creeks. |
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| 12/20/2024 | NY-WY-11 | NY | Wyoming |
Mildly Wet
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
| Cloudy and cold, then cloudy overnight with snow. The high temperature was around twenty six degrees, and the low around twenty two degrees Fahrenheit. Songbirds are eating a feeder full every three days. Intermittent streams are flowing. Large Blackbird flocks seen on phone wires. Two large flocks of Canadian Geese were seen. |
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| 12/20/2024 | NC-WK-203 | NC | Wake |
Mildly Dry
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General Awareness
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
| Rainfall for the week was 0.04 inches. It remains slightly dry with below normal stream flow. |
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| 12/20/2024 | TX-GA-15 | TX | Grayson |
Mildly Dry
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