Drought update...

Severe drought still holding onto my FA....Lakes and rivers still well below normal water levels...Some drops have been noted over the last week....A few good things that will slowly start to effect the area and help lessen the drought conditions..Mainly after the second week of Oct..1. the sun is getting lower so not as strong,along with shorter daylight hrs....2. some of the vegetation is slowing dying off,along with tress not drinking up as much water as a few weeks ago.......However this will not help the corn nor would any amount of rainfall as most of the corn through out the area is past the denting stage...Some corn fields turning brown from the long term drought...As this point in time any rain would not help the corn..Also we are getting closer to the killing frost,only thing right now for farmers to hope for would the corn can mature before we get the killing frost...However any rainfall would help the soil and this will also slowly start to help out the lakes and rivers...What is interesting despite the above norm rainfall in August Western/Northwest WI is still running from 6 to 12 inches below normal(from April till now)...Here at The Weather Center we are down to 10.97 inches below normal rainfall.......Drought conditions look to be increase in intensity through this coming work week....Doesn't look to get much better either,as the 8 to 14 day forecast is still calling for temps to be above normal and precip to be below normal...With any luck we will have a wetter fall and winter...Winter meaning not above avg in snowfall,however just more moisture content to the snow compared to last winter...