Northwest Callaway County Experiencing Drought
April 6, 2023 3:58PM CDT
Drought conditions in Missouri as of April 4th, 2023. (The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Map courtesy of NDMC.)
Two rounds of thunderstorms didn’t provide enough moisture for parts of Northeast Missouri, with the northwest quarter of Callaway County falling into moderate drought. The weekly US Drought Monitor also shows abnormal dryness now covering nearly all of Audrain, Boone and Ralls counties, along with western Pike, central and eastern Callaway, northern Moniteau, and the eastern halves of Cooper and Howard counties. Conditions for the rest of Missouri are unchanged, including severe drought in the western fourth of Barton County. 1.8 percent of Missouri is in moderate or severe drought, along with 7.1 percent of the state in abnormal dryness.
