Drought and dryness worsened across areas of the West, High Plains, South and Southeast this week.
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March was a dry month, leading to widespread drought expansion across the US with some small areas of improvement in the Midwest and Northeast. Drought covers 59.91% of the continental US, a jump of 3.7 points from last week.
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This week, extreme weather events across the U.S. painted a starkly contrasting picture of drought development and relief.
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This week, a powerful storm system crossed from the Great Plains into the Great Lakes. This brought widespread rain and thunderstorms to parts of the Midwest, and a historic blizzard to portions of the upper Midwest.
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Following a drier-than-normal winter, a pattern change at the beginning of March resulted in widespread heavy precipitation. This improved drought and dryness in parts of the Ohio Valley and Middle to Lower Mississippi Valley.
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Since the beginning of December, drought has expanded and intensified across the Lower Mississippi Valley and Southern Great Plains, which is typical during a La Niña winter.
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Stormy, briefly colder weather in California and elsewhere in the West helped to improve previously meager mountain snowpack.
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After recent warm and dry weather, heavy precipitation returned to the West Coast this past week.
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This week, parts of the Lower 48 and Alaska saw abnormal dryness and drought conditions worsen.
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Most precipitation across the Lower 48 fell as part of a large winter storm this past week.
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The Lower 48 states settled into a calmer weather pattern over the past week.
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The past week featured above-normal temperatures across much of the western half of the U.S.
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This week saw both improvements and degradations across the country, shaped largely by uneven precipitation and cooler temperatures.
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This week saw improvement in drought-related conditions across the country.
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Parts of the Northwest received moderate to heavy precipitation this week, leading to improvements in Oregon, Idaho and western Montana.
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Heavy precipitation doused parts of Washington and Oregon again this week, but improvements there were somewhat limited.
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Heavy precipitation of over 3 inches was observed last week over many of the higher elevations and coastal areas in northern California to the Canadian border.
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A trend of varied precipitation across the Lower 48 continued this week.
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A late-season surge of tropical moisture brought heavy precipitation and flooding to parts of the Four Corners States this week.
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Drought and dryness continued to expand in the Northeast after another dry week. Meanwhile, welcome rains fell in southeast Missouri, the Ohio River Valley and some parts of the Mississippi River Valley.
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Widespread rains of 1 to 2 inches or more eased drought and dryness conditions in parts of southern Missouri and Arkansas into the northeast U.S.
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The US saw a broad mix of improvement and deterioration to drought conditions this week.
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Another week of below-normal rainfall led to widespread expansion of abnormal dryness and drought across the Midwest, Southeast and Northeast.
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Abnormal dryness and short-term drought continued to expand across the Lower to Middle Mississippi Valley, Ohio Valley, Central Appalachians, Northeast and Southeast this week.
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This week, drought worsened across areas of the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
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Patchy downpours maintained good soil moisture in much of the upper Midwest, while locally heavy showers dotted the central and southern Plains and the lower Southeast.
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Drought conditions were widespread this week, driven by above-normal temperatures and below-normal precipitation across much of the country.
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Short-term rainfall shortages led to expanding and intensifying dryness and drought this week in much of the Northeast.
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Considerable changes occurred across the US this week.
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This week, drought conditions continued to improve across areas of the Midwest, Great Plains, Desert Southwest and Texas.
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