Weather By The Numbers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Alabama Field Office, Montgomery, released their weekly Crop and Weather Report this afternoon, including Crop Progress and Condition. Some numbers from that report:
* 52% of Alabama is now under an Exceptional Drought (the highest designation)
* 19% is the increase from one week ago
* 0% of the state was under an Exceptional Drought one year ago at this time.
* 93% of Alabama topsoil moisture is very short or short
* 7% is all that is adequate
* 67% of the state’s pasture and range land is in very poor or poor condition. Only 26% is fair
* 78% of the corn crop is in very poor or poor condition
* 54% of the cotton crop crop is very poor to poor
* 67% of soybeans very poor or poor
* 34 is the number of weather stations that the USDA looks at each week
* 33 of the 34 stations has temperatures 100 or higher during the week
* 7 is how many days in a row the Birmingham temperature has been 100 or higher as of today
* 8 is the number of such days at Montgomery, an all time record
* 20.34 inches if the 2007 rain deficiency for Birmingham as of today
* 23.28 inches if the Tuscaloosa shortfall
* 4.88 inches for Geneva. They are in the best shape, rainwise, in the state
* 102 was the official temperature at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport at 4 this afternoon. They recorded their first 100-degree heat over the weekend.
ADDITIONAL NOTES FROM THE USDA REPORT
* Cotton and peanut fields in Henry County, Southeast Alabama, in desparate need of rain
* Pasture conditions worsened over the entire state during the past week
* In NE Alabama, Donald Mann, Jackson County, reported that livestock water supplies have dried up
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