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About Drought Status Updates: NIDIS and partners issue drought status updates to communicate a potential area of concern for drought expansion and/or development, based on recent conditions and the upcoming forecast.
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Rolling hills with fall foliage in the Northeast region.
Drought Status Update for the Northeast
November 18, 2022

Despite rainfall from post-tropical storm Nicole, groundwater and long-term precipitation deficits persist in New England and southern New York.

For more details, see the Northeast Drought Early Warning System Dashboard.

Bishop Creek waterfall in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
California-Nevada Drought Status Update
November 17, 2022

Little Change in Drought Conditions Early in the Water Year

Register here for the November 28 California-Nevada Drought & Climate Outlook Webinar.

 

Colorado River running through the Grand Canyon
Drought Update for the Intermountain West
November 4, 2022

October was cool and wet for the Intermountain West. Wyoming and Colorado’s eastern plains missed out on most of that rain.

A beach landscape in Puerto Rico.
Drought Update for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
November 3, 2022

Drought Conditions Have Retreated Across Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Chicos mountains in Big Bend National Park, Texas, representing the Southern Plains.
Southern Plains Drought Status Update
October 28, 2022

October Rainfall Came Eventually, But the Drought Continues

Farmland in the Midwest U.S.
Drought Status Update for the Midwest and Missouri River Basin
October 25, 2022

Drought Has Recently Expanded and Intensified and Is Expected to Persist.

This drought status update is based on information provided during the October 20, 2022 North Central U.S. Climate and Drought Outlook Webinar. View the webinar for more details.