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Your Weekly U.S. Drought Monitor Update

| April 10, 2014 @ 10:31 am

Recent rains in many parts of the country have help alleviate some of the drought conditions, but looking at the map below, we continue to see a lot of dry areas across the Plains, Texas, the Southwest, and along the West Coast. We still see exceptional drought conditions affecting California, Nevada, Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado.

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For Alabama, WOW, what a difference a week makes. The rains we received earlier this week have all but squashed any abnormally dry conditions across the state. Last week these conditions covered portions of the Wiregrass Region as well as locations from Dallas County to Cleburne County, but with most of these areas receiving 2-4 inches of rain this week, everything is back to normal for now.

The only part of the state that is still experiencing drought and abnormally dry conditions is in the northwestern part of the state. Moderate drought conditions are occurring in portions of Lauderdale, Colbert, and Franklin Counties, where it amounts to 1.32% of the state being affected. That is down from 3.37% last week, meaning the area being impacted decreased by 2.05%.

The abnormally dry conditions continue to impact locations in Lauderdale, Limestone, Lawrence, Colbert, and Franklin Counties. As stated earlier, these conditions covered much more of the state last week as 24.55% of the state was being impacted. This week, it has dropped significantly and is at 3.82% of the state. That is a decrease of 20.73% in the area suffering from the dry conditions.

With more rain in the forecast to start next week, hopefully we will see conditions continue to improve for our northwestern counties as well as no new areas develop elsewhere.

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