By ALTHEA PETERSON Staff Writer on Sep 5, 2013, at 9:53 AM Updated on 9/05 at 9:53 AM
Detailed drought: The U.S. Drought Monitor is updating their site, with images like the one pictured here. This way, depression can be depicted down to the county with additional reminders of how hot it is, especially when it doesn't rain. Courtesy
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While Oklahoma has been having a bit of rain this week of its own, Colorado is now recovering from its flooding last week.
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Don't let me be midunderstood with my image caption, it is wonderful that the U.S. Drought Monitor will be providing more detailed drought reports via their site redesign.
Alas, I would prefer more rain and less drought, instead, especially with how intimidating the map looks this week. Details here:
And for those that have trouble viewing GIF images, a side-by-side with last week (left) and this week (right):
The increase in D0 for abnormally dry (yellow) kind of resembles a Pacman mouth ready to chomp down on Oklahoma. Given our recent rainfall, that might not be too far off from reality:
10-day rainfall:
![](http://www.mesonet.org/data/public/mesonet/maps/realtime/rainrfc.240hr.png")
According to the National Weather Service, Tulsa hasn't recorded any rainfall since Aug. 16. However, thanks to some earlier monthly rainfall, our total August rainfall of 2.88 inches was only slightly off norma' (2.9 inches). Sadly, rain is not in Tulsa's short term forecast.
Rather than just tease about the U.S. Drought Monitor site and not give you all a chance to see it yourself,
here's a link.
I'll be back Friday with a milestone update.
-- Althea Peterson
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