The state drought map for OK is linked below.

It is hard to see it on the map, but about one-third of one-percent of OK is back in D-2, Moderate Drought, this week. It is down right along the river and the Lake Texoma area and includes a tiny portion of my county, and I do live in the portion of the county that is back in Moderate Drought. I hope the rest of y'all can join us back in Moderate Drought soon. Actually, I hope by Christmas maybe all of us will be out of drought if we have a good, rainy autumn.

And, in case you're thinking that making it to "Moderate Drought" means we have plentiful moisture, well....no we don't. Most ponds are still very low (if spring-fed) or empty (if they merely catch run-off) and the cracks in the ground haven't budged. However, we're having some good green -up in some places, though not so much in others. A lot depends on if you're looking at annual plants (many of them just flat out dead and not greening up) or perennial plants, which were only dry and dormant and now are sprouting green growth.

In the tiny portion of Love County that received 3" of rainfall last week (most of the county had less than an inch), we have weeds and grasses sprouting everywhere. That's nice to see, though geogrpahically it is a pretty small area--maybe a couple of square miles.

Here is a link that might be useful: Oklahoma Drought Monitor 8/28/2012