Summer 2022 Drought - July 26th Update

​(2:15PM Thursday - 7/28/22) The latest NOAA drought monitor valid July 26th, 2022 continues to have portions of Illinois experiencing abnormally dry (D0) to severe drought (D2) conditions. The good news is that as with the past few updates... Drought conditions did not expand or worsen across the state, and for the third consecutive update drought conditions have improved for some areas across portions of the state, due to periods of beneficial rainfall for some areas the past several weeks.

​The next drought monitor update will be on Aug 4th.

JP