The latest drought monitor from the National Mitigation Center shows severe drought conditions developing over a portion of northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. As of Tuesday, October 15th nearly 70 percent of the state of Illinois was considered 'abnormally dry' with a little over 37 percent considered in 'moderate' drought, and now just over three percent at 'severe' drought levels. In all but the dry category, this has been an increase from last week to this week.
In Wisconsin, drought conditions have worsened throughout the state with 100 percent considered 'abnormally dry', nearly 64 percent in 'moderate' drought, and 20 percent considered in 'severe' drought conditions.
Through October 17th the Rockford Airport has only received a 'trace' of rainfall, which isn't considered to be any sort of measurable rain as it's under 0.01 inches. This puts the first two and a half weeks of October as the second driest month-to-date, followed only by October 1934 (same time period) with no rain.
Dry conditions will remain through the weekend and most likely into next week with high pressure stretching across the Ohio Valley into the southern Plains. There are some signals in models that point to a possible pattern change by the end of the month, but with that being nearly two weeks away it isn't anything to get too excited about yet.
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