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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

Partly Cloudy

86° Fahrenheit
N E S W
7 mph WNW
Dewpoint
72°F
Humidity
62%
Pressure
29.94 inHg
Heat Index
92°F
NWS api.weather.gov · Evergreen, Middleton Field · 26 mi from Andalusia
Read 14 min ago
No. 02

Forecast

Five days · NWS MOB

High Low Condition
This Afternoon 89° 73° Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 54%
Sunday 90° 72° Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 82%
Monday 93° 72° Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 19%
Tuesday 92° 68° Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 24%
Wednesday 85° 65° Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 23%
No. 03

Drought

U.S. Drought Monitor · Week of 2026-05-26

D2

Severe Drought

100% of county area

38 weeks running

Current drought began Sep 2025 and peaked at Extreme Drought.

30 wks Severe (D2+) ·17 wks Extreme (D3+)

5-Year Severity Timeline

202120222023202420252026
D0 D1 D2 D3 D4

Cumulative coverage this week

D0 Abnormally Dry 100%
D1 Moderate 100%
D2 Severe 100%
D3 Extreme 0%
D4 Exceptional 0%
Recent drought episodes 8 prior
  • 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
  • Aug 2023 → Feb 2024 25 wks D3

Since 2000, Covington has spent 53.4% of weeks in some drought; severe (D2+) only 18.6% of the time.

No. 04

Groundwater

Depth from land surface · Covington County Well 1

3.49 ft below surface

well above normal (shallower than usual)

0th percentile of all readings since 2008

90-Day Trend vs Seasonal Normal

typical range (p10–p90) median current

90 days ago45dtoday
1 year ago
8.19 ft ▲ 4.70 ft
5 years ago
9.41 ft ▲ 5.92 ft
Record shallow
2.76 ft 2023-01-30
Record deep
18.36 ft 2010-11-15

5-Year Monthly Mean

Range over 5 years: 4.917.3 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

falling Down 2.15 ft in the last 3 days — water clearing, post-runoff bite often turns on.

Discharge 426 ft³/s
Gage Height 3.49 ft
76
low normal high

above normal flow

Typical p10
47
Median
195
Typical p90
854
14-day stage

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

River Falls

Records since 1998

5.4 mi from Andalusia

falling Down 0.86 ft in the last 3 days — water clearing, post-runoff bite often turns on.

Discharge 553 ft³/s
Gage Height 3.65 ft
26
low normal high

below normal flow

Typical p10
251
Median
966
Typical p90
2,646
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.