{"id":330600,"date":"2025-12-04T19:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/330600\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T19:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:42:09","slug":"are-alabamas-drought-conditions-finally-improving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/330600\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Alabama\u2019s drought conditions finally improving?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alabama is still stuck in a drought, but the numbers improved in every category in the latest report from the U.S. Drought Monitor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Drought Monitor looks at drought conditions nationwide and issues a report each Thursday.<\/p>\n

Here are the stats from this week\u2019s report:<\/p>\n

12.49 percent of Alabama was drought-free this week, an improvement from 6.63 percent last week.87.51 percent of the state was either in a drought or on the verge of one, a decrease from 93.37 percent last week.63.50 percent of Alabama was classified as in Level 1 or moderate drought, a decrease from 66.21 percent last week.Here\u2019s a big improvement: 26.83 percent of the state is in Level 2 or severe drought, a decrease from 40.61 percent last week.6.68 percent of Alabama is in Level 3 or extreme drought, a decrease from 10.69 percent last week.No part of Alabama is in Level 4 or exceptional drought, the most severe category.<\/p>\n

The hardest-hit areas remain in west and south Alabama<\/p>\n

In west Alabama that includes parts of Greene, Hale, Marengo, Choctaw and Sumter counties.<\/p>\n

In south Alabama all of Houston and Geneva counties are in Level 3 drought. Level 3 drought was also noted in parts of Henry, Dale, Coffee, Covington and Escambia counties.<\/p>\n

More rain is in the forecast for Alabama, and it should help improve drought conditions in some areas. <\/p>\n

The National Weather Service is forecasting 2 to 3 inches of rain through Saturday night for some of the driest spots in the state: <\/p>\n

\"AlabamaThe southern third of Alabama is expected to get 2 to 3 inches of rain through Saturday night.NWS<\/p>\n

But beyond the weekend there could be drier weather to deal with.<\/p>\n

The six- to 10-day precipitation outlook from NOAA\u2019s Climate Prediction Center is forecasting higher odds of below-average rainfall from Dec. 9-13:<\/p>\n

\"PrecipitationDrier-than-average conditions will be possible in Alabama from Dec. 9-13.Climate Prediction Center<\/p>\n

Most of Alabama will have a 40-50 percent probability of below-average precipitation from Dec. 9-13.<\/p>\n

The eastern fringes of the state have slightly lower odds of below-average rainfall — 33-40 percent.<\/p>\n

The next U.S. Drought Monitor report is scheduled to be released on Dec. 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alabama is still stuck in a drought, but the numbers improved in every category in the latest report…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-330600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}