Moderate rain totals from this past weekend did nothing to help the area drought situation.
The US Drought Monitor released its weekly map Wednesday instead of doing so on Thanksgiving. The map now has moderate drought across most of Kansas, including all of the KVOE listening area save for central Greenwood County, which is listed as abnormally dry. Nearly 70 percent of the state is now in moderate drought or worse, up from almost 60 percent a week ago.
The expansion in drought coverage comes after much of the KVOE listening area got anywhere from 0.33 to 0.70 inches of rainfall Saturday. The light rain from Tuesday — up to 0.25 inches — came too late to affect the maps unveiled Wednesday.
