Drought in Rice, Kansas

The entire county was put into severe drought (D2) with around or under 0.25 of an inch of rain the first 20 days. Some locations stayed around only 0.25 inch for the month with northern locations reaching closer to one inch based on cooperative observer and CoCoRaHS reports.

In central Kansas, a lack of precipitation led to severe drought conditions (D2) in all or portions of six counties in central and south central Kansas. This started in the last 10 days of the month. The first 20 days of the month had around 0.1 to 0.25 of an inch for much of the included areas.