Drought expanded to cover 36.02% of the continental US, an increase of 1.74 points on the US Drought Monitor. #Drought intensified in parts of the Southwest, central US and along the East Coast.
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Drought continued to expand/intensify across parts of the southern and northern tiers of the continental US and the Midwest with some #drought relief in South #Texas from TS Harold. Abnormal dryness and drought cover 50.41% of the Lower 48, while 49.59% is free of dryness.
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#Drought continued to expand/intensify in parts of the Southern US and ease in the Midwest, as has been the trend in recent weeks. #Flashdrought has developed in parts of East #Texas and #Louisiana. Drought covers 30.62% of the continental US.
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Drought has intensified quickly over the past 5 weeks in the #Southwest and #Texas, and to a lesser degree from #Montana to #Wisconsin. However, the central US to the Northeast has had #drought improvement over the same period.
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#Drought (D1-D4) decreased slightly by 1.05 percentage points in the continental US. Conditions eased in the Midwest, but worsened in #Texas, the Southwest and Minnesota.
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Drought remains worst in the central U.S., with a mix of expanding dryness and #drought in the Pacific Northwest to #Minnesota and #Wisconsin. Conditions eased in parts of the Plains, Midwest and Northeast. The area covered by drought in the contiguous US remained near 27%.
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Drought continued to intensify across the Midwest and parts of the Northeast again this week as #flashdrought developed, threatening corn and other crops.
#Drought covers 27.11% of the contiguous US after drought/dryness began ramping up a month ago.
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The drought footprint in the continental US continues to shrink, extending the improvement trend that began in late October 2022. #Drought has also intensified this week with areas of extreme and exceptional drought increasing in #Nebraska and #Kansas.
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Drought has rapidly decreased across the Lower 48 to just 25.84%, down from a peak of 62.95% only 25 weeks ago. The Central and Southern Plains, however, remain firmly in the grip of severe to exceptional #drought at the start of the 2023 growing season.
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Improvement continued on the US Drought Monitor with just 28.23% of the Lower 48 in #drought. While drought eased further in the West and Northern Plains, extreme or exceptional drought worsened in #Kansas, #Oklahoma and #Texas. Dry conditions also expanded along the East Coast.
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Drought continued to shrink, affecting less of the US this week, but the amount of extreme and exceptional (D3 & D4) drought increased with worsening conditions in the Southern Plains and a new area of extreme #drought in #Florida. The East Coast from Pennsylvania to South Carolina was drier, while conditions continued to improve in the West.
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Drought in the US has been mostly abating since Nov. 1, with a drop of 22.64 percentage points. Since November, heavy winter precipitation has eased large swaths of the West, particularly in California and Nevada. Much of the eastern US and Hawaii also emerged from #drought, while Texas and Florida saw dry conditions intensify.
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#Drought conditions have improved across much of the US in the first two months of 2023, but Florida, Texas and the Pacific Northwest have become drier.
The latest US #DroughtMonitor map will be released tomorrow morning at 8:30 am ET.
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Tremendous improvement on the US #DroughtMonitor with central #California's Sierra Nevada mountains becoming free of #drought and abnormal dryness for the first time since January 2020.
For the continental US, just 38.46% is in drought, dropping below 40% for the first time since September 2020.
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Drought continued to mostly ease on the US #DroughtMonitor, apart from moderate #drought increasing by nearly a fifth of a percentage point.
Drought expanded in the Northwest, small areas in the Southern Plains and Florida, but shrank in swaths across the central US.
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Drought continues to gradually ease on the US #DroughtMonitor as has been the general trend since the start of November. Snow continues to improve #drought in parts of #California and the West, while areas of #Texas get drier.
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#usdroughtmonitor for the last three weeks is pretty amazing.

Intense storms bringing heavy precipitation to #California has eased drought on the #USDroughtMonitor. Most of the extreme #drought was removed, with just a small area along the Oregon border remaining.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/01/12/californias-has-drought-eased-significantly-due-to-heavy-rains-federal-government-concludes/

I periodically look at the US Drought Monitor. A new map is posted at the website every Thursday.

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Drought continued to ease across parts of the country on the #USDroughtMonitor with huge improvements in #California as storms continue to slam the state. Parts of the West, the Midwest and the Southeast also saw #drought ease, with only a few patches of worsening drought.