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Drought, Live.

What the Conecuh River, the wells beneath us, and the sky above are actually doing — straight from USGS, the National Weather Service, and the U.S. Drought Monitor. No interpolation. When the nearest instrument is twenty miles away, the page says so.

No. 01

Current Conditions

Clear

90° Fahrenheit
N E S W
3 mph E
Dewpoint
73°F
Humidity
59%
Pressure
30.01 inHg
Heat Index
98°F
NWS api.weather.gov · Evergreen, Middleton Field · 26 mi from Andalusia
Read 22 min ago
No. 02

Forecast

Five days · NWS MOB

High Low Condition
Tonight 73° Mostly Clear
Tuesday 93° 73° Sunny 11%
Wednesday 94° 73° Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 26%
Thursday 92° 72° Mostly Sunny then Showers And Thunderstorms Likely 60%
Friday 92° 72° Showers And Thunderstorms Likely 55%
No. 03

Drought

U.S. Drought Monitor · Week of 2026-08-25

D0

Abnormally Dry

100% of county area

4 weeks running

Current drought began Aug 2026 and peaked at Abnormally Dry.

5-Year Severity Timeline

202120222023202420252026
D0 D1 D2 D3 D4

Cumulative coverage this week

D0 Abnormally Dry 100%
D1 Moderate 0%
D2 Severe 0%
D3 Extreme 0%
D4 Exceptional 0%
Recent drought episodes 8 prior
  • Sep 2025 → Jun 2026 42 wks D3
  • Jul 2025 → Aug 2025 4 wks D0
  • Apr 2025 → May 2025 4 wks D1
  • Mar 2025 → Apr 2025 5 wks D0
  • Aug 2024 → Jan 2025 23 wks D2

Since 2000, Covington has spent 53.5% of weeks in some drought; severe (D2+) only 18.4% of the time.

No. 04

Groundwater

Depth from land surface · Covington County Well 1

11.13 ft below surface

above seasonal normal

66th percentile of all readings since 2008

90-Day Trend vs Seasonal Normal

typical range (p10–p90) median current

90 days ago45dtoday
1 year ago
10.66 ft ▼ 0.47 ft
5 years ago
12.29 ft ▲ 1.16 ft
Record shallow
1.68 ft 2026-06-22
Record deep
18.36 ft 2010-11-15

5-Year Monthly Mean

Range over 5 years: 4.517.3 ft

USGS NWIS OGC API · Covington County Well 1 · 7.7 mi from Andalusia
Read just now
No. 05

Surface Water

Conecuh River · Live gage readings & historical percentile

Brantley

Records since 1929

22.5 mi from Andalusia

steady Stage holding within 0.03 ft — established patterns work.

Discharge 38 ft³/s
Gage Height 0.81 ft
14
low normal high

below normal flow

Typical p10
34
Median
106
Typical p90
571
14-day stage

Record high: 16,300 ft³/s on 2015-12-25

River Falls

Records since 1998

5.4 mi from Andalusia

steady Stage holding within 0.30 ft — established patterns work.

Discharge 514 ft³/s
Gage Height 1.96 ft
37
low normal high

near normal flow

Typical p10
81
Median
636
Typical p90
1,528
14-day stage

Record high: 27,700 ft³/s on 2009-12-18

A Note on the Sources

Where the readings come from

  1. U.S. Geological Survey — National Water Information System (NWIS), for surface-water gages on the Conecuh River and groundwater wells in Covington County.
  2. National Weather Service — Forecast Office Mobile (MOB), for current conditions, the seven-day forecast, and active alerts on zone ALC039.
  3. U.S. Drought Monitor — the joint product of the National Drought Mitigation Center, USDA, and NOAA.

A note to the reader

This bulletin reads the nearest official monitoring stations to Andalusia. Where the nearest reporting instrument lies more than a few miles distant, the distance is shown plainly with each reading. No values are interpolated or modeled. When a station ceases reporting, the panel will say so.