| Month | Monthly Total | Annual Total | 30 Yr Avg/YTD | 2017 Departure |
| January | 1.01 | 1.01 | 3.08/3.08 | -2.07 |
| February | 5.65 | 6.66 | 2.08/5.88 | +0.78 |
| March | 3.19 | 9.65 | 3.82/9.70 | +0.15 |
| April | 4.11 | 13.96 | 4.03/13.73 | +0.23 |
| May | 3.69 | 17.65 | 5.28/19.01 | -1.36 |
| June | 3.01 | 20.66 | 4.24/23.25 | -2.59 |
| July | 4.62 | 25.28 | 4.05/27.30 | -2.02 |
| August | 8.24 | 33.52 | 3.26/30.56 | +2.96 |
| September | 3.33 | 36.85 | 2.83/33.39 | +3.46 |
| October | 2.16 | 39.01 | 3.38/36.77 | +2.24 |
| November | 1.60 | 40.61 | 3.47/40.24 | +0.37 |
| December | 3.96 | 45.83 | 3.48/43.72 | +2.11 |
Have you heard about “a big snow storm” for next week? Have you seen snow maps spreading around social media? With 4-5 days before any precipitation enters the area, let’s start simple. Stay up to date, and don’t focus on any particular outcome yet.
A potent weather system will impact the Ohio valley area Wednesday and Thursday. This system has the potential to bring heavy rain and then
accumulating winter precipitation as colder air move into the region. Timing, precipitation details, and amounts are still uncertain.
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This report is specifically for the Arbor Doctor’s location 3.4 miles west of Cheviot, OH, in the western suburbs of Cincinnati in southwest Ohio. This location is also an official cooperative observation site for the National Weather Service listed as Cheviot 3W.
What is the Condition Monitoring Report? See these links for more information:
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Click on the title or the graphic (above) to access the
U.S. Weekly Drought MonitorPDF Version of Graphic 
Click on the title or the graphic (above) to access the
U.S. Monthly Drought OutlookPDF Version of Graphic
Click on the title or the graphic (above) to access the
U.S. Seasonal Drought OutlookPDF Version of Graphic
Other Drought links:
Water once per week, one inch per week, under the entire branch spread, in the absence of rain, May through November. Either rainfall or your watering should equal the one inch per week. Put out a sprinkler and a straight sided soup can or rain gauge and measure one inch per week.
To the extent possible recycle fallen leaves back into the soil around the trees and maintain mulch around the trees to a radius of at least 3-5 feet. Keep mulch off trunks. Use a coarse textured mulch. Avoid triple shredded mulch. Aged arborist wood chips, mulched and composted leaves, pine bark, and pine straw are all good. Very finely ground mulches such as triple ground hardwood mulch are not beneficial and may inhibit moisture and oxygen exchange.
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