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Month: June 2026
“Dustbowl” 2.0 Developing in Breadbasket
“70 degree days in January, with 70 to 80 mph winds, has blown soil all over the place.”
Sobering Farm Journal report from Nebraska.
KEARNEY — Recent rainfall struggled to make a dent in the long-entrenched drought conditions across the state, per the U.S. Drought Monitor’s most recent update on Thursday, May 28.
The update does not account for the rainfall that parts of the region saw over the weekend.
Hall, Adams and most of Buffalo County are under severe drought, D2, conditions. Kearney and a swath to the south and west and north central Nebraska are under extreme drought, D3, conditions.
A pocket of exceptional drought, D4, conditions still exist in northern Gosper County into the southern half of Frontier County. As of the last update, 8.2 percent of the state is under D4 conditions.
Looking statewide, 95 percent are under some type of drought conditions.
“By mid-week, much above-normal temperatures had returned to the Plains, with daily maximum temperatures climbing into the upper 90s in some locations,” per U.S. Drought Monitor.
