Texas Drought And Some Relief

Nothing exciting happening in Indiana, so I thought I'd mention the rainfall that parts of Texas has and is receiving. Of course it's known that pretty much the entire state of Texas is suffering through one of their worst droughts in years. The recent rainfall is certainly no drought breaker, but it is of some relief. Here are links to the NWS offices in Texas and their reports of the rainfall so far:

San Angelo, TX NWS Office

Norman, OK NWS Office - covering parts of northern TX

Dallas/Fort Worth, TX NWS Office

Austin/San Antonio, TX NWS Office

Midland/Odessa, TX NWS Office

Severe Drought Conditions Over For Indiana

There remains a small area of western Indiana that still is under a moderate drought. Otherwise, across the board improvement in the past 7 days. Below is the updated drought monitor map for Indiana (through September 27) and 7 day total precipitation through yesterday morning.

Drought Pretty Much Over For Indiana

The Indianapolis NWS office is saying the summer drought conditions have ended in Indiana due to the recent heavy rains in much of the state.

Here's the link to the story:
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=ind&storyid=73334&source=0 


Rainfall totals for the past 7 days, through yesterday morning.

Drought Monitor

Some improvement in the drought conditions for Indiana with the latest update. The moderate and severe areas decreased, note the middle two columns compared to last week.

Drought Monitor Update

Rainfall totals/departures across central Indiana from June 1st through August 18th:

Indianapolis: 7.00" (-3.62")
Terre Haute: 7.27" (-3.78")
Muncie: 9.06" (-1.87")
Indianapolis Eagle Creek: 9.07" (-1.30")
Bloomington: 9.49" (-2.18")
Lafayette: 13.21" (+3.15")

Rainfall Since June 28th

Moderate drought conditions have developed to our south according to the weekly drought monitor: http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/DM_midwest.htm

Rainfall totals and departures since July 1st across central Indiana...

Lafayette (LAF): 5.88" (+0.64")

Muncie (MIE): 4.28" (-1.39")

Terre Haute (HUF): 2.62" (-3.43")

Bloomington (BMG): 2.47" (-3.72")

Indianapolis Eagle Creek (EYE): 2.17" (-3.21")

Indianapolis (IND): 0.78" (-4.99")

Needing Rainfall

Looking at the radar at noon today, there are storms firing to the north of here...but looks like they will remain a miss. Still a chance of storms this afternoon, but I'm not confident...

Abnormally dry conditions exist for a good chunk of the state of Indiana: http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/DM_state.htm?IN,MW