The latest Drought Monitor has been released by the Drought Mitigation Center, and it shows that portions of the Stateline are now in a Moderate Drought.
Boone and McHenry county in Illinois, and Whiteside county in Wisconsin have been placed under the moderate drought category. While the rest of northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin are now under 'abnormally dry' conditions. Areas with abnormally dry conditions and drought conditions have increased since last week's update; from 91.35% to 92.60% and 11.23% to 12.84% respectively across the state. This puts an estimated 914,251 people under a drought.
There isn't much of a rain chance in the forecast, next chance will be potentially late Wednesday into Thursday with the passage of a cold front. However, this is over week away and models are nowhere close to an agreement on when that cold front will move through. Some models stall it west through the middle of next week, and then bring the cold front (and rain) through next weekend.
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