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Drought Conditions Improve Slightly, Big Rains on the Way
Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:23:01 CDT
The most significant changes in this week's Oklahoma Drought Monitor map included a bit of a lessening across southwestern Oklahoma around the Lawton area as well as in the northwest around Gage, but an intensification in the southeast. Associate State Climatologist Gary McManus says the state has gone from 43 percent covered by at least moderate drought to 42.81 percent.
At this time last year Oklahoma was in the grips of its driest May-December on record, a bout of dry weather that would continue through early February 2013. Since then, however, there has been significant relief.
Some areas of the state, however, have been missing those summer and early fall rains. For southwestern Oklahoma, the drought has now stretched on for more than three years. Altus is currently under a veritable water emergency as their lakes continue to go down into dangerous territory.
McManus says the good news is that rain still looks imminent for most of the state, and it
could be a soaker.
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