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Dryness Lingers On for Much of State

Despite some very welcome rainfall during the morning hours,
rainfall totals over the past weeks and months remains well
below average for much of Oklahoma.

Southeastern and south-central Oklahoma continue their slow
recovery from long-term deficits, while much of the state west
of Interstate 35 observes continued dryness in recent months.

In fact, the sixty-day period ending yesterday was the driest
such period of the 84 such periods (Apr18-Jun16) on record for
west-central Oklahoma.  Other notable outliers for the period
ending yesterday are listed by climate division below:

Panhandle:  7th-driest 30-day and 9th-driest 90-day totals
N. Central: 3rd-driest 30-day and 7th-driest 60-day totals
W. Central: 3rd-driest 30-day, driest 60-day and 3rd-driest 90-day
Central:    6th-driest 60-day, 2nd-driest 90-day
Southwest:  9th-driest 30-day, 6th-driest 60-day, 3rd-driest 90-day

In addition, the last 365 days represents the 9th-driest such period
on record for the southwest climate division.

This information was taken directly from the OCS drought monitoring
page:

http://climate.mesonet.org/drought/