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Rainfall and Drought- Here are the Latest Maps of Both Across Oklahoma

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:02:24 CDT

Welcome rainfall has arrived in a lot of the state of Oklahoma- as we push back from extreme to exceptional drought conditions. A pretty good swath of western Oklahoma- from the west central border with Texas up to the Grant County area and into Kansas received from just under an inch of rain to close to an inch and a half of precip from this rain making system that is starting to make its way out of the state- exiting from northeastern Oklahoma this morning with likely some more rain in those Green Country counties for a while longer on Friday.

The map above is a snapshot as of early Friday morning of the rainfall totals from the last 48 hours. The graphic below is of the latest Oklahoma Drought Monitor that was released on Thursday morning- you will notice some of the exceptional drought areas of the state did receive an inch or slightly more of rainfall- which helps put a small dent in the drought conditions.

Southwest Oklahoma counties were slighted this go round- with amounts at mostly just a couple of tenths of rainfall- not enough to hardly move the needle.

Several Oklahoma Mesonet stations in central Oklahoma also received right at one inch of rainfall- that did not include Canadian County except for the Minco area where that Mesonet station did pile up 1.14 inches of rain with this current system.

Will this be enough to get the planters rolling? Some of the areas that got the most moisture this go round very in exceptional drought- so the rain will be soaking in very quickly- but it may be enough to allow a lot of folks to get busy early this coming week. For our wheat farmers- the decision is still- do you want to shoot for wheat pasture or not?- if you do, you probably plant right away. For the folks wanting to plant canola- a shot of moisture is all many of them were waiting for to move and plant during the Crop Insurance mandated planting window of September 10 through October 10.


   




   

 

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