Drought has been easedPosted Jun29, 2006 at 04:54 PM
The inset map shows only a little yellow, or abnormally dry conditions, creeping into Southside Virginia. Western Virginia is clean and white, signalling no drought problems. Click here for the full map. Still, much of the central U.S. and parts of the Southeast are experiencing abnormally dry conditions. The Southern Plains area has had some improvement since early in the spring, but with the heart of summer setting upon us, the dry situation looks bleak in many parts of the country. For now, we're not one of those areas. A couple of months of dryness could get us back there, though. Roanoke is still officially 3 inches below normal in precipitation for the year, while Blacksburg is about one inch above normal. |
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Kevin Myatt works on the copy desk for The Roanoke Times and is its principal weather geek, writing a weekly weather column and advising the newsroom on weather topics. He helps guide students on a storm chasing trip to the central U.S. each May and was an editor for "Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States." .....Advertisement.....
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