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Latest U.S. Drought Map Shows Oklahoma is 75 Percent Drought Free
Thu, 28 Jan 2021 16:46:55 CST
Moderate precipitation fell across central Texas extending northeast into Oklahoma and Arkansas along with heavy snow across the northern High Plains, Rocky Mountains into Iowa.
This week's U.S. Drought Monitor map also shows decent snowpack in the high elevations of the Rockies led to some improvement in the protracted D2-D4 (Severe, Extreme and Exceptional Drought) categories in north-central and south-central Colorado.
Otherwise, the driest areas this week included parts of the Intermountain West, the southern High Plains and southern Texas.
We're keeping our eye on an expanding area of dryness popping up in the southwestern Tennessee, northwestern Mississippi and south-central Louisiana.
Six-month rainfalls in central Louisiana are 15 inches below normal.
To view the U.S. Drought map, click here.
For Oklahoma, a small pocket extreme drought (D3) persists in Harmon County in southwest Oklahoma.
Statewide, approximately 75.15 percent of the state is drought free this week, almost a 9 percent change from last week.
We must go back almost a year to find a time when the state was this free of drought conditions.
To view the Oklahoma drought map, click here.
The latest seasonal drought outlook, January through April, calls for developing drought in south central Kansas and western Oklahoma.
To view the spring seasonal drought outlook map from the Climate Prediction Center, click here.
The outlook for next week calls for average temperatures and above precipitation for much of the state.
To view the 6-10-day temperature outlook, click here.
To view the 6-10-day precipitation outlook, click here.
The U.S. Drought Monitor Map is developed through a partnership between the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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