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Your Weekly U.S. Drought Monitor Update

| May 29, 2014 @ 9:45 am

5-29-2014 8-14-10 AM

All of the state of California continues to suffer from severe drought conditions or worse, and little to no relief is expected anytime soon. In Texas, recent rains have helped conditions to improve somewhat, especially in the western portions of the state, but it still wasn’t enough to bust the drought. The exceptional drought conditions persist in Texas, as well as Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico and Nevada.

For Alabama, locations across the Tennessee Valley continue to be the driest areas. Abnormally dry conditions persist in Lauderdale, Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Jackson, Marshall, and DeKalb counties. Last week’s analysis had 7.01% of the state suffering from these conditions. This week, 1.19% of the state has added back into this category, and the latest analysis shows 8.20% of the state suffering from abnormally dry conditions.

Last week, moderate drought conditions were impacting 0.54% of the state. This week, that number has remained the same. The moderate drought conditions are confined to the extreme northwestern corner of Alabama affecting parts of Lauderdale and Colbert counties. Hopefully the rain this week, and the scattered showers and storms in the forecast will help alleviate these conditions.

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Macon, Georgia Television Chief Meteorologist, Birmingham native, and long time Contributor on AlabamaWX. Stormchaser. I did not choose Weather, it chose Me. College Football Fanatic. @Ryan_Stinnet

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