Last week’s rainfall had a positive impact on the ongoing drought for much of the KVOE listening area.
Drought conditions improved from severe to moderate for most of the KVOE listening area, including all of Lyon, Chase and Osage counties. Northwest Coffey, southeast Morris and southeast Wabaunsee counties have also been upgraded — as has Greenwood County north of Kansas Highway 58.
Severe drought covers most of Coffey County and Greenwood County from Madison to Hamilton. Extreme drought is across Greenwood County from Hamilton to Eureka, with exceptional drought along and south of US Highway 54 in central Greenwood County.
Area residents got anywhere from 2-5 inches of rainfall last week. The better than 2 inches of rain at the KVOE studios was the highest single-event total of the year at KVOE.
