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Exceptional Drought Keeps Grip on Oklahoma
Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:16:00 CDT
Exceptional Drought continues to grip about two thirds of Oklahoma, based on the National Drought Monitor.
According to Gary McManus, Assistant State Climatologist for Oklahoma, "The U.S. Drought Monitor map came out on Thursday morning and we did see some improvements in the state. Unfortunately, the improvements were not widespread, mostly confined to the northeastern quarter of the state."
The amount of exceptional drought (D4) in the state stayed at 66%, but the amount of extreme-to-exceptional drought (D3-D4) went from 90% to 79%. So that area of D3 in eastern Oklahoma dropped by 11%.
To review more about the latest National Drought Monitor, which shows our neighbor Texas with almost a total red- out on their map which reflects almost all of Texas still in exceptional drought, click here for the National Drought Monitor website.
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