West Texas received beneficial moisture

This week’s drought picture featured a mixed bag of conditions with worsening drought in the lower Mississippi valley and the lower Great Lakes region. Meanwhile, prolific rainfall continued in parts of the Southwest, South, and Southeast, leading to significant drought improvement across southern and western Texas and parts of the Southern Appalachian region. Additional drought improvement was found over the western Great Lakes in Minnesota and Wisconsin and parts of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Despite little rainfall in the Four Corners region of the Southwest, additional improvements were made as a result of substantial rainfalls over the last several weeks, leading to tremendous flooding in some places and rapidly-filling reservoirs. The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.

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