FROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS:
Last week’s heavy rain went a long way to ease dry conditions in some parts of the state, especially Central Maryland.
This week’s Drought Monitor maps show more than 49 percent of Maryland now enjoying normal moisture. That’s up from only 33 percent just before the rain.
But half the state remains dry, and more than a quarter, in Western and Southern Maryland, and the Lower Eastern Shore, remains in drought.
Hardest-hit are Washington, Worcester, Somerset and Wicomico counties.
(AP Photo: Will Kincaid, 2006)
This week’s Drought Monitor maps show more than 49 percent of Maryland now enjoying normal moisture. That’s up from only 33 percent just before the rain.
But half the state remains dry, and more than a quarter, in Western and Southern Maryland, and the Lower Eastern Shore, remains in drought.
Hardest-hit are Washington, Worcester, Somerset and Wicomico counties.
(AP Photo: Will Kincaid, 2006)