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Only 2% of the state was drought-free on Sept. 24. Now, 14% of the state is clear of dry conditions, mostly in south-central and northeast Ohio, according to U.S. Drought Monitor Data ...
There is only one completely dry county in Florida: Liberty County in the Florida Panhandle. Lafayette County in North Central Florida is a partially dry county, as it does allow retail sales of beer. [72] [73] Before 2012, Madison County was partially dry; it only allowed beer sales if the beer's alcohol content was under 6.243 percent ...
Temperatures above the historical average have exacerbated the drought. Despite some frosty mornings over the interior Northeast, the dryness of both the air and the ground has led to warm afternoons.
If your gardens are drying up and shriveled from the August heat, blame the lack of rain. Close to 40% of Stark County now is categorized as abnormally dry, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor ...
"Ohio is the fourth largest producer of global warming emissions among all the states," with per capita emissions nearly "19 percent higher than the national average." [ 3 ] This is "mainly because 87 percent of Ohio's electricity comes from coal-fired power plants (compared with the national average of 50 percent)."
A dry state was a state in the United States in which the manufacture, distribution, importation, and sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited or tightly restricted. Some states, such as North Dakota , entered the United States as dry states, and others went dry after the passage of prohibition legislation or the Volstead Act .
A new drought map from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows extreme drought retreating from Franklin County and an increasing amount of the state's area experiencing no drought whatsoever. A map of Ohio ...
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