Drought conditions throughout much of Oklahoma including Tulsa are going from bad to worse. 

Nicole McGavock is a Meteorologist with the National Weather Service Office in Tulsa. 

"Almost all of eastern Oklahoma is now in the D-3 extreme drought category. This week we've seen a degradation to a D-4 which is the worst category...considered exceptional drought across a portion of northeast Oklahoma and that does include a large part of Tulsa County and some nearby counties," McGavock says.

Nearly 40 percent of Oklahoma is now classified as being in exceptional drought. 

“We’re going to need several days of slow, steady rain. That would be a best case scenario,” said McGavock. 

But she acknowledges even that might not be the cure.

“We probably would need over a foot of rain over the next month just to get us back to normal rainfall through this time of year.”