With no real rainfall happening this past week, there wasn’t any improvement in drought conditions in the Raccoon Valley Radio area.

According to the US Drought Monitor, the majority of Dallas County is abnormally dry, and the extreme northwestern corner is in a moderate drought. Most of Greene and Guthrie counties are abnormally dry, except for the southwestern corner of Greene County and the northwestern corner of Guthrie County isn’t in a drought.

According to the National Weather Service as of Friday, Jefferson and Guthrie Center haven’t seen any precipitation all month and Perry has so far seen 0.04 inches.