Drought in Saline, Nebraska

Severe (D2) drought conditions persisted across Saline County through the month of April, though significant improvements in areal coverage were observed. The coverage of severe drought shrank from around 71 percent at the beginning of the month down to 24 percent by the end of the month. The cooperative observer at Friend 3E recorded 2.56 inches of precipitation, 0.17 inches above average. The CoCoRaHS observers at Milford 5.9 SSE and Tobias 4.7 SSW recorded 1.89 and 2.16 inches of precipitation, respectively. These values were 0.52 and 0.48 inches below average.

Severe (D2) to extreme (D3) drought conditions continued across portions of eastern Nebraska through the month of April. However, there was some slight improvement through the month with only small departures from average precipitation in many locations.