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How dry is it? Two areas of Wisconsin are showing up on drought maps.

The U.S. Drought Monitor's newest maps, released on Thursday, show Northeast Wisconsin from Brown County up to Florence County, and Vernon County into southern Juneau County, are abnormally dry.

Abnormally dry is the lowest level of drought in the monitor.

About 11 percent of Wisconsin's land area is abnormally dry. Last week it was 10 percent, and there were no drought conditions in the state three months ago.

No state can compare to California, with the entire state in some stage of drought, including almost 60 percent in exceptional drought, the worst level.

In the Midwest, less than 12 percent of the nine-state region has any level of drought, mostly at the abnormally dry level.