Drought Making Improvements…But Not Gone
The Drought Monitor Updates come out every Thursday, but are based on rain up to 7am EST on the most recent Tuesday.
Last week’s big rains came on Wednesday.
Look at the difference. The “Exceptional Drought” category is completely gone. The “Extreme Drought” category is still there but shrunk a little on its northern and northwestern perimeter.
If you want to have some fun, go to the Drought Monitor website. Click on Tennessee (and then a second time on the new map to see counties), and then click on “archive” at the top of the page. Select an area by picking “state” and choosing Tennessee and then “update”. Choose several dates. Then you can use your up/down arrows on your keyboard to toggle through them in order to watch an animation of the changes.
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on March 28th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Jason, don’t like the attitude, but you may be right about the rain! I really, really don’t know why you do this! Next time….lay off the pointless comment! Have a great day too!
on March 28th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
WOW! MTSU football fans can be rough! They love to talk Smack and then can’t stand their own ground! Can’t wait til 7 years!
on March 28th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
You were wrong about this afternoon. I live in Nashville and a got a decent showers. I got the forecast right too.
“Ok here you go, the rain will not form this afternoon”
http://www.mtwc.blogspot.com
on March 28th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
It rained a few times today here in Cookeville.
on March 28th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
LOL you have to remove my post telling you that your wrong????? Talk about taking in hard, you make mistakes it’s ok.
on March 28th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Just got back from Vegas, sunny and 80 degrees, not a drop of rain to be found, weather guys there just smile and wave at the camera not much to forecast. My rain gauge was empty when I got home glad to know I didn’t miss an acurate recording for the Cocorahs site
Interesting news in an email from this past Wednesday from the site
Good morning,
A brief lull in active weather
“I don’t know if you noticed, but yesterday (our ~7 AM reports for 3/25/08) was the driest day across the U.S. since early November. Of the 3,500 observations that were sent in from 30 states as of last night, nearly 3,200 reported a big ZERO. An additional 165 stations reported just a trace, leaving 175 reports of 0.01″ or greater. Most of these were just a few hundredths. Only 19 of us received more than 0.10″ (one tenth of an inch). The wettest CoCoRaHS stations in the country were in the Afton, Wyoming area — just west of the Grand Tetons in NW Wyoming — where a few tenths of an inch of moisture was measured from about 5″ of new snow.”
http://www.cocorahs.org/
on March 28th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Seeing quite a few elevated thunderstorms over MID TN tonight.. Nice to see the rain!
on March 29th, 2008 at 11:39 am
[…] The rain is moving back in and the thunder is getting closer and closer. We sure can use the rain, though. […]