Overview

• Cleveland Hopkins logged 0.75 inches for September, the second-driest since 1938 per National Weather Service records, though a longer local dataset ranks it lower.
• The Sept. 23 U.S. Drought Monitor expanded moderate drought across Northeast Ohio, including all of Cuyahoga County, with parts of Lorain County in severe drought.
• Statewide in Ohio, about 89% is in moderate drought, nearly a quarter is in severe drought, and more than 1% is in extreme drought, with an update due Oct. 2 to include late-month rain.
• Rochester recorded 0.30 inches for September, its second-driest on record, following a wet spring and much drier July and August that pushed Western New York into moderate drought.
• Akron-Canton picked up 2.60 inches in September but remains nearly 5 inches below its year-to-date normal, as the Climate Prediction Center favors a drier-than-normal October and several inches of rain would be needed to ease deficits.