Thursday, June 21, 2012

Drought update

http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/DM_state.htm?KY%2CMW
A horrible development has occurred in the drought monitor. The addition of D3(extreme drought) has been given to much of Western Kentucky. This is the 2nd highest drought classification and represents a very high impact event. Agriculture will start taking a big heat, wildfire danger will increase, and thoughts about water restrictions may occur. This extreme drought extends from Murray KY to Cadiz KY to the Pennyrile forest to Henderson KY line westward. This includes all of the Purchase and all of the Flurospar district. A thin stripe of severe drought(slight less intense than extreme, but still could have bad impacts) surrounds the extreme drought. The Hopkinsville-Bowling Green KY area up to Lake Malone is only in D1(moderate drought) due to getting more relief, but despite that rain relief is still feeling some drought impacts.

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