UPDATE: DROUGHT MONITOR UPDATED
Thursday, July 13th, 2006 -- 2:17 PM
The U.S. Drought Monitor was updated Thursday -- the news wasn't good for our area.
NOAA writes:
[b]The Plains and Midwest[/b]: A few thunderstorms rolled across the northern Plains and upper Mississippi Valley this week, but overall rainfall was generally light from central Montana to Michigan.
Abnormally high temperatures, especially on July 7 and 8, intensified the dry conditions.
As a result, D0 dryness expanded across central and eastern Montana and farther southward in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
D1 drought expanded into central Minnesota and into central Wisconsin. D2 drought developed in northern Wisconsin.
On the Web:
[url=http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html]U.S. Drought Monitor[/url]
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