Will Nebraska grassland fires cause cattle to go up???
The fires: the Morrill Fire in western Nebraska’s Morrill, Garden, Arthur and Keith counties; the Road 203 Fire in Thomas and Blaine counties; the Cottonwood Fire in Lincoln County; and the Anderson Bridge Fire in Cherry County, have burned more than 700,000 total acres and are the largest in the state’s history.
Nebraska wildfires are partially contained as weather warnings continue | Nebraska Public Media
Thanks, cutworm!
I had no idea this was going on.
Networks of sensors linked to networked computing enable us to continually monitor—and map—the State of Nebraska.
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f16bec5c164d4f4d96cb3a2949d743db
Because of this long lived La Nina, we certainly have a huge part of the country in drought. The rapidly developing El Nino can't get here soon enough, hopefully right after the crop is all planted. No assurances but El Nino increases odds of ample rains this Summer.
Soilmoisture anomaly:
These maps sometimes take a day to catch up to incorporate the latest data(the bottom map is only updated once a week).
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/Soilmst_Monitoring/US/Soilmst/Soilmst.shtml#
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Updated daily below:
https://mrcc.purdue.edu/cliwatch/watch.htm#curMonths
Snapshot below:
NEW LINK:
https://www.drought.gov/current-conditions
Thru March 10, 2026
DROUGHT MONITOR
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
We have some serious heat for March coming up in the Plains late this week.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/83844/#83851
Without much rain.
7 Day Total precipitation below:
http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.govcdx /qpf/p168i.gif?1530796126
