Drought Rain Update

Well, Brian, despite the rain we saw last night, we could still use more as drought conditions continue to get worse across parts of New England. A line of showers moved through western Massachusetts Thursday night into early Friday morning, bringing some muchneeded rain to our area. We finally saw a little rain last night. Uh many spots picking up around a half inch or a little less. Uh Westover Air Reserve base recording 44 in yesterday. Despite the rain we just picked up, we continue to deal with expanding drought conditions. August was a really dry month overall, below average rainfall, and some spots are starting to develop uh some drought conditions, especially up the closer you are to the Vermont state line and much of uh Friendley County and northern Bircher County. The latest US drought monitor shows abnormally dry conditions across the northern portion of western Massachusetts with moderate drought conditions over parts of Franklin and northern Birkshire counties. Drought conditions continue to worsen over northern New England where severe drought conditions are now showing up in a good portion of that region. The drier than normal weather continues to cause lawns to turn yellow and brown. And with the dry conditions we continue to experience, many river levels remain very low. The Connecticut River is well below its banks right now. There are a lot of areas that are usually underwater that are now very visible. Now, of course, as Brian mentioned, there is the chance for some showers and thunderstorms tomorrow, but it looks like after that, we may have another stretch of dry weather on the way for next week. working for you. I'm 22 Storm Team meteorologist Adam Stmreco.