Drought expanded and intensified across most of the country with a few spots of improvement in the Pacific Northwest, Midwest and Northeast.

[denisegutzmer@mindly.social]

Drought expanded and intensified across most of the country with a few spots of improvement in the Pacific Northwest, Midwest and Northeast. Drought (D1-D4) covers 56.21% of the US, up 1.4 points from last week.
The last time there was this much drought in the US was the week of Nov. 29, 2022, when 57.51% of the contiguous US was affected.

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https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?conus