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Extreme drought in parts of the area

 Anyone who doubts just how dry this summer has been in some parts of the area need only look at this three month precipitation summary beginning on June 1, 2012, and ending Thursday, August 22.  Western Butler and northwestern Hamilton county are in extreme drought, with severe drought in eastern Butler county and central Hamilton county.  Southeastern Hamilton county has had adequate rainfall this summer and is not in drought.

Station Number : OH-HM-5 Station Name : Cheviot 0.9 SSE
< June 2012 >
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
27 28 29 30 31 1Precip: 1.94 2Precip: 0.22
3Precip: 0 4Precip: 0 5Precip: 0 6Precip: T 7Precip: 0 8Precip: 0 9Precip: 0
10Precip: 0 11Precip: 0.04 12Precip: 0.40 13Precip: 0 14Precip: 0 15Precip: 0 16Precip: 0
17Precip: 0 18Precip: 0.21 19Precip: 0 20Precip: 0 21Precip: 0 22Precip: T 23Precip: 0
24Precip: 0 25Precip: 0 26Precip: 0 27Precip: 0 28Precip: 0 29Precip: 0 30Precip: 0.47
Station Number : OH-HM-5 Station Name : Cheviot 0.9 SSE
< July 2012 >
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
1Precip: 0.05 2Precip: 0.11 3Precip: 0 4Precip: 0 5Precip: T 6Precip: 0 7Precip: 0
8Precip: 0 9Precip: 0.02 10Precip: 0 11Precip: 0 12Precip: 0 13Precip: 0 14Precip: T
15Precip: 0.22 16Precip: 0.04 17Precip: 0 18Precip: 0 19Precip: 0.29 20Precip: 0.25 21Precip: 0.01
22Precip: 0 23Precip: 0 24Precip: 0.01 25Precip: 0.20 26Precip: 0 27Precip: 0.31 28Precip: 0.45
29Precip: 0 30Precip: 0 31Precip: 0
Station Number : OH-HM-5 Station Name : Cheviot 0.9 SSE
< August 2012 >
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
29 30 31 1Precip: 0 2Precip: 0 3Precip: 0 4Precip: 0
5Precip: 0.02 6Precip: 0.23 7Precip: 0 8Precip: 0 9Precip: 0 10Precip: 0.50 11Precip: 0
12Precip: 0 13Precip: 0.01 14Precip: T 15Precip: 0 16Precip: 0 17Precip: 0.09 18Precip: 0.08
19Precip: 0 20Precip: 0 21Precip: 0 22Precip: 0 23Precip: 0 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31 1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8