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Rainfall of 2 inches or more was widespread across much of the Midwest, Great Plains, and the Eastern Seaboard this week.
The Drought Download video series uses maps, climate indicators and graphics to visualize the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mDp62CBuH4
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Drought worsened in parts of the Great Plains, Midwest, Northeast, and Montana, while easing along the East Coast and mid Mississippi River Valley. Drought (D1-D4) covered 50.38% of the contiguous US, an increase of 1.84 points. Areas of flash drought have been developing in the Dakotas and Oklahoma in recent weeks.
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Moderate to heavy rain fell on almost all areas of dryness and drought along the Eastern Seaboard, improving conditions across large swaths of the region. However, drought conditions in some areas are lingering due to continuing drought impacts, despite numerous locations receiving inundating rains and flooding.
Learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MscqmMcdWD4
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Average temperatures soared well above normal levels over the past week. This significantly raised evaporative demand in areas across the upper Midwest, northern Plains, Colorado and the Texas Panhandle, where conditions deteriorated rapidly.
Learn more: https://youtu.be/V6zxHCO-WTg
The Drought Download video series uses maps, climate indicators and graphics to visualize the U.S. Drought Monitor.
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Drought intensified in the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest, while it eased in parts of Montana, Idaho, Texas and the Southeast. Drought covers 45.77% of the contiguous US, a decrease of 0.7 points. This is the ninth straight week of drought improvement.
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https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?conus
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Heavy rain fell this week across parts of the Lower 48, bringing widespread relief from ongoing drought and abnormal dryness from northeast Texas up through the Mid-Atlantic.
The Drought Download video series uses maps, climate indicators and graphics to visualize the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Learn more: https://youtu.be/Q3zfiiCbQZc
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Drought eased in the south and east of the US, while intensifying in the north and west on the U.S. Drought Monitor. Drought covered 46.47% of the US, a decrease of 0.73 points. The drought footprint has shrunk for the 8th straight week.
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https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?conus
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Dry weather dominated much of the western U.S. this week, causing drought to continue or worsen in the Northwest and the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming and Colorado.
The Drought Download video series uses maps, climate indicators and graphics to visualize the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Learn more: https://youtu.be/SsAwf48SMAo
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An active weather pattern delivered heavy showers and severe thunderstorms east of the Rockies this week, with a few exceptions.
The Drought Download video series uses maps, climate indicators and graphics to visualize the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Learn more: https://youtu.be/LvwYe5IJQA0
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Tropical Storm Arthur delivered heavy rain in parts of southern Texas, followed by a post-tropical deluge from the central Gulf Coast region into the lower Southeast.
The Drought Download video series uses maps, climate indicators and graphics to visualize the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Learn more: https://youtu.be/R_Tz9Eibdjk
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Drought eased across the U.S. for a fifth week with rainfall continuing to ease drought largely from the Great Plains eastward, while drought worsened in parts of the West. Drought covered 52.33% of the contiguous U.S., a decrease of 2.69 points from last week.
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The South and Southeast saw widespread improvement this week, though there were degradations in North Carolina and Tennessee.
The Drought Download video series uses maps, climate indicators and graphics to visualize the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWqcOdYaPW0
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The US Drought Monitor showed considerable improvement in the Southeast, South and High Plains, and some development in the Midwest and intensification in the West. Drought covers 58.38% of the contiguous US, a drop of 2.39 points from last week.
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https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?conus
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This week’s storms, along with mostly wetter weather in May, brought widespread drought relief to the South, Southeast and portions of the High Plains.
Learn more: https://youtu.be/nCNpxdFc7dc
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Strong temperature gradients across the nation this week, along with Gulf moisture moving northward, resulted in widespread heavy and persistent precipitation.
The Drought Download video series uses maps, climate indicators and graphics to visualize the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Learn more: https://youtu.be/77PG8BzP2Ek
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This week saw severe thunderstorm outbreaks, large moisture disparities and regional temperature anomalies.
Learn more in this week's Drought Download video:
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This week was defined by a significant precipitation divide, highlighted by a major deluge across parts of the South and Gulf Coast.
Learn more: https://youtu.be/R2RR1t0jnP0
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Widespread soaking rains fell across the South this week, bringing a much-needed moisture boost to these drought-affected areas.
The Drought Download video series uses maps, climate indicators and graphics to visualize the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Learn more: https://youtu.be/nBgKjKvtfBQ
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Five Facts About the United States Drought Monitor
1. Numerous agencies use the U.S. Drought Monitor.
2. The USDM is made with more than precipitation data.
3. A real person, using real data, updates the map.
4. The USDM provides a current snapshot, not a forecast.
5. Your input can be part of the drought-monitoring process.All true.
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https://www.farmers.gov/blog/five-facts-about-united-states-drought-monitor
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Rain continued to bypass the central and southern High Plains, leaving rangeland, pastures, and winter wheat in desperate need of moisture.
Farther east, however, showers and thunderstorms continued to ease drought and dryness across the eastern Plains.
The Drought Download video series uses maps, climate indicators and graphics to visualize the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Learn more: https://youtu.be/x4LcCe3p4pk
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Drought intensified in parts of the eastern US and Great Plains, while drought eased in the Midwest and South. Conditions were mixed in other parts of the country. Drought (D1-D4) coverage dipped slightly by 1.1 points to 61.68%. Still a huge percentage of the US in drought.
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#USDroughtMonitor - #NortheasternUS
Map released: Thurs. April 23, 2026
Data valid: April 21, 2026 at 8 a.m. EDThttps://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?Northeast
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The week was highlighted by a band of above-normal precipitation extending from south Texas into eastern Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, and southern Wisconsin.
The Drought Download video series uses maps, climate indicators and graphics to visualize the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Learn more: https://go.unl.edu/usdm-april-23-2026
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Drought expanded and intensified again this week, with degradation in the Southeast and in parts of the High Plains and West. It eased in parts of the South, Midwest, and Northeast. Drought covers 62.78% of the contiguous US, a jump of 1.75 points.
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Worst spring drought on record grips US, fueling wildfires and water worries
Varying levels of drought covered 62.78% of the country as April 21, with the worst of it centered on much of the South, West and Plains. Put another way, dryness in the Lower 48 states has never been this expansive in spring in the history of the US Drought Monitor, which has data back to 2000.
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https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/weather/us-drought-worst-in-decades-wildfires-climate
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Much of the country continued to experience above-normal temperatures in April.
The Drought Download video series uses maps, climate indicators and graphics to visualize the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Learn more: https://go.unl.edu/54m6
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Some U.S. Drought Monitor stats.
Abnormal dryness and drought (D0-D4) cover 77.57% of the continental U.S. on the U.S. Drought Monitor this week, for the 27th largest affected area since the USDM began in 2000.
Drought (D1-D4) covers 61.03% of the continental U.S. for the 25th most.
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Drought expanded in the Southeast, along the East Coast, in the west Central Plains, and in the West, and eased in and around Iowa and in Texas. Drought covers 61.03% of the contiguous US, an increase of 0.98 points.
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Drought expanded in the West and Southeast, but improved in the Midwest and Plains. Drought covers 60.05% of the continental US, an increase of 0.14 points. Drought has intensified significantly in recent weeks as the planting season arrives.
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This week, drought and dryness worsened across areas of the West, Southeast, and Mid-Atlantic. Meanwhile, rainfall over the past week led to improvements in drought-affected areas of the South, Plains, and Midwest.
The Drought Download video series uses maps, climate indicators and graphics to visualize the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6v4kHDiZw4