Weather Talk: Drought monitor improving across state

NOW WITH THE LOOK AT THE DROUGHT CONDITIONS. YEAH. YOU GUYS, IN FACT, IT WAS JUST, WHAT, A MONTH AGO WE WERE TALKING EXTREME DROUGHT IN SOME PARTS OF MARYLAND. I DO WANT TO KIND OF RECAP, THOUGH, WHERE WE'VE BEEN SO FAR AND GO OVER JUST THE LAST YEAR, MAYBE A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO. LAST WEEKEND INCLUDE LAST MONTH AS WELL. JUST TO GIVE YOU COMPARISON OF, YOU KNOW, HOW FAR WE'VE COME WITH THE DROUGHT THIS TIME LAST YEAR, MOST OF BALTIMORE CITY AND BALTIMORE COUNTY WERE NOT UNDER ANY DROUGHT CONDITIONS FOR THE MOST PART, OF COURSE, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF BEING ABNORMALLY DRY. THE FARTHER WEST YOU WENT, THEN SIX MONTHS LATER, THE DROUGHT WAS COMPLETELY TAKEN OUT. IF YOU LOOK AT THE DATE HERE, THIS WAS FEBRUARY 24TH, AND THAT'S ALL THANKS TO THE SEVERAL ROUNDS OF RAIN THAT WE SAW EACH WEEKEND, NEARLY, ALMOST EVERY WEEKEND SINCE THE MONTH OR THE YEAR STARTED, WE HAD SOME AMOUNT OF MEASURABLE RAINFALL AT BWI, SO THAT CERTAINLY HELPED WITH ANY DROUGHT CONDITIONS HERE. THEN YOU PUSH FORWARD THREE MONTHS AND WE'RE GETTING INTO MAY NOW. SO MID TO LATE SPRING WE'RE STARTING TO DRY OUT AND SEE SOME ABNORMALLY DRY CONDITIONS START TO SET IN IN SOUTHERN MARYLAND. AND THAT LOWER EASTERN SHORE. THEN HERE WE GO JULY THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER. AND WE WERE BONE DRY IN MANY SPOTS, IN FACT. SO MUCH SO THAT PARTS OF WESTERN MARYLAND WERE GOING INTO THAT EXTREME DROUGHT CATEGORY AS YOU SEE HERE, HIGHLIGHTED IN THAT DARK SHADE OF RED. BUT IF YOU FOCUS HERE, BALTIMORE COUNTY AND BALTIMORE CITY, OF COURSE, PUSHING AHEAD TO JUST LAST WEEK, THOSE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE PRODUCED BY DEBBY AND OF COURSE, A COUPLE OF SYSTEMS THAT CAME THROUGH BROUGHT QUITE A BIT OF RAINFALL THAT HELPED EAT AWAY SOME OF THOSE DROUGHT CONDITIONS HERE AND HERE. WE ARE NOW OUT OF THE DROUGHT COMPLETELY FOR BALTIMORE CITY AND BALTIMORE COUNTY AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE EASTERN SHORE AND THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE, AS WELL, WHICH ARE ABNORMALLY DRY AT THIS POINT. HOWEVER, THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS WE'VE B

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