Update maps announced Thursday by the US Drought Monitor look similar to those unveiled in recent weeks.
The vast majority of the KVOE listening area is in severe or extreme drought, essentially involving an area south of a line from Alta Vista to Bushong to Reading to Melvern. Extreme drought covers virtually all of Chase and Greenwood counties, as well as most of Coffey County and parts of Lyon and Morris counties.
There is abnormally dry to moderate drought which covers the northern areas of the KVOE listening territory.
