US Drought Monitor These maps show drought conditions in California on Sept. 27, 2022 and March 14, 2023. The Central Valley and a stretch of the California coast from western Los Angeles County ...

Now, six months later, just 8% of the state is at that level and 49% of the state is free of any drought conditions, a level that wasn’t even on the map in September. All 58 counties are still ...

There’s no more drought in California, except for a sliver in the most northwestern portion of the state. California is 99.93% drought-free, according to a Thursday update from the U.S. Drought ...

How can we not be in drought? I talked to the person who issued last week’s Drought Monitor ranking map. Richard Heim, meteorologist at NOAA’s National Center For Environmental Information ...

One of Ellenburg’s jobs is to examine drought information from across the state and give his recommendation to the U.S. Drought Monitor authors, who then make the weekly drought map, which is ...

Based on current drought coverage, five potential comparison years for 2023 arise: 2012 ... May soil moisture maps make an excellent case for 2014, a scenario many corn farmers would root for.

Looking at the latest climatological data released by NOAA NCEI (through July 2023), Louisiana Climate ... areas of Severe Drought (D2) expanded on the map due to a combination of factors ...

(KOIN) — 2023 was an excellent year for drought recovery ... which is still listed as abnormally dry for the year. Slide the maps provided in this story to see the state’s recent and long ...

Extreme drought expanded into parts of Los Angeles ... this time of year in downtown LA is about 14.25 inches. In the 2022-2023 wet season, the region had 28.40 inches of rain followed by 25. ...

The last patches of unusually dry areas — remnants of drought that plagued counties along the Oregon and Nevada borders in 2024, and almost all North State counties from 2020 to 2023 — were ...

Did heavy rain helped Iowa improve drought conditions? Here's what the newest US Drought Monitor map shows for the state.