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Drought in Lower Lakes/Ohio Valley


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So in a few days will this become the flooding in Lower Lakes/Ohio Valley thread. Seeing as there is no drought to be had in the region.

 

Technically, Central and Western Iowa is in our subforum and they may still have some issues, but we only have a few posters from that area. But otherwise, yes, the drought is but a memory.

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While the rest of the Midwest has been soaked this year, we've been relatively dry ... straddling the border of the dry Northeast conditions. This is % of normal precip for 2013 YTD.

 

It will be interesting to see if this dryness expands westward or if the wet pattern pushes eastward as we go through spring:

 

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See a little D0 creeping across the border into se OH. Hopefully that cut off low rain will catch that area in the next couple days.

 

With the snow that fell in NW WI, the drought there is probably mostly gone as well.

 

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See a little D0 creeping across the border into se OH. Hopefully that cut off low rain will catch that area in the next couple days.

 

With the snow that fell in NW WI, the drought there is probably mostly gone as well.

 

The last time I was in SE Colorado it was 2001 and it was dry as a bone. I wonder how 2001 compares to 2013 in SE Colorado.

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Gotta think D0 will be in parts of West Michigan starting with this week's update.  We had a lot of rain earlier this spring, but June and July have turned quite dry.

 

You have a big slug of rain headed your way. Definitely won't have D0 in here this week!

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If we don't see appreciable rain out in the DVN cwa then I could see D0 expanding east a bit for the next update...or two.

If there's an expansion on the next update, that gets my vote as the most likely area. Also MI is another area to watch as has been said. Combine this with a dry July...

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If there's an expansion on the next update, that gets my vote as the most likely area. Also MI is another area to watch as has been said. Combine this with a dry July...

 

 

Didn't realize how dry northern lower and eastern UP of MI was. Definitely not dry around here.

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Didn't realize how dry northern lower and eastern UP of MI was. Definitely not dry around here.

Nor here. Plentiful rainfall and only 5 days of 90f (all in a row too) here have led to green grass all summer long. Been a while since weve had a summer without a period of some brown. Grass hasn't been brown here since early-mid April.
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Didn't realize how dry northern lower and eastern UP of MI was. Definitely not dry around here.

 

Quite typical for this time of year. After all, the summer is our "dry season" up this way for most of the lake effect areas, as those same lakes that give us the snow in winter shadow us out from convection typically. Did get a nice round for many areas (minus Gaylord proper) the other day, but it really looks like a nice setup for a soaker up this way out ahead of that amplifying upper low on Friday. Plenty of moisture streaming in combined with a nice axis of mid level difluence and even some strong hints of upper jet support offer good chances for some substantial amounts (greater than an inch) where things are currently dry. 

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On the flip side. Here in Cleveland we are running a staggering 35.60" rainfall SURPLUS over the past 30 months. Sure, there's been some short term dryness in there, but long term it's been insanely rainy in these parts.

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