Deep Creek Lake Real Estate Blog - Jay Ferguson

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Monday, April 16, 2012

Nearly All Of The State Now In Drought

Monday, April 16, 2012
Steve Fermier
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WBAL's Steve Fermier reports on the drought status currently in Maryland
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Jay Apperson of the Maryland Department of the Environment told WBAL's Steve Fermier that part of the state is now in a "drought watch."
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Eastern Shore as been designated as in a severe drought.

That's not all.

The only part of the state that is not now on the drought map as dry is the extreme western portion of Garrett County.

In just three months Maryland has gone from normal rainfall to almost entirely abnormally dry or in drought.

In fact the lower Eastern Shore from Queen Anne's County south is now in a severe drought and has been designated as such by the state Department of the Environment.

The national drought monitor lists only 2 percent of Maryland as having had normal rainfall and that's basically the western sliver of Garrett County in far western Maryland.

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