0.10 rainfall this past week, 0.89 October total, 2.42 inches since Aug. 18, local streams at barely a slow moving trickle, two local ponds very low, lawn averaging 1.5 out of a scale of 1 to 10 according to several measurements with a moisture recorder, with the lowest away from the house and in the sun, grass has stopped growing and most of the leaves have blown off the trees, my wife picked fhe laat rose of the season yesterdsy. Overall the local area is dry and dusty.