Missouri – The National Weather Service has announced that conditions across the Ozarks have improved, but long-term dryness remains.
Overall this year, drought conditions have improved across multiple states, but some areas are still being affected by the overly dry conditions the years prior. In Missouri, the middle of the state has recovered from drought conditions. For our listening area, this includes most of it, save for western sections of Ozark and Douglas Counties.
In Arkansas, the recovered area includes Fulton County, and the northeastern section of Baxter.
This Fall season is expected to be dry, however, with both Missouri and Arkansas within a projected below average rainfall period.
The silver lining with the continuing drought conditions is that these holdout locations are simply in a D0 to D1 scale on the NWS’s 0-5 scale on droughts.
See the full information packet below.
NWS Drought Monitor
