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No major change in the drought map. A small area of extreme drought in Western Montana has cleared.

Drought map unchanged this week.

The weekly drought map shows no dramatic changes. But more and more, little by little, the upper regions of our biggest rivers are showing very dry or some drought. The Mississippi, Snake, Missouri, Colorado, and Rio Grande are all, at least, very dry. Your'e right Andie. Not looking good for a hot summer ahead. The Ohio, Tennessee, and other larger rivers of the Southeast are currently free of dry conditions. But these rivers lack a snow pack source and will be subject to rapid drying as the summer heat comes on. The Sacramento and west coast rivers are ok..with more moisture expected this spring and backed up by good snowpack.

Very slow change in the map as Nebraska continues out of the worst drought conditions. Serious drought continues in portions of Iowa. The upper Mississippi remains in drought. Almost all of the Colorado remains dry.The Rio Grand, Pecos, and Permian basin contiues drought. The Texas hill country and the aquifer there remains in the grip of sparse rainfall.

No change to the drought map.

No change for the drought map. At least it's not getting worse.

The big Texas Panhandle fires are occuring in the northeast of the region where near normal conditions prevail. The raging wind is the devil there. Drought wise across the nation not much change.

The South completely out of the extreme drought area and with the exception of Iowa, all of the East is free of severe drought. Tiny areas of the Idaho/Montana border has fallen into extreme drought. Slight improvement in New Mexico and West Texas.

Absolutely agree. Warmer air over a not as warm ocean surface means more depth to the marine layer. It's the important weather phenom that needs a lot of study. The ocean may want to evaporate water to the atmosphere but if the water vapor is trapped within a ML, it can't be good for rainfall on the continents.

Only a tiny area in NW Mississippi remains in extreme drought in the SE region. El Niño has eliminated the SE drought along the Gulf and the lower Mississippi as expected. Again the big storms of last week didn't remove that very dry area of the Sierra. Rainshadow?. Not much change otherwise. The big atmospheric river that clobbered California didn't help the Idaho/Montans area nor New Mexico. The Colorado high country missed out to.

Despite really big West Coast storms, a small segment of the Sierra leeside rainshadow remains very dry. The El Niño rains hve reduced the lower Mississippi severe drought to a small area in North Mississippi.

This thread of the forum doesn't take kindly to those considered fools. The response to posts frequently have a sharp edge without counter argument or attempts to educate. New members and guests can feel the chilly atmosphere.of the learned experts. Despite thier interest in California weather, many newcomers simply move on to discussions inclined to inform and educate.

Good rains has improved the outlook in the lower Mississippi and middle south. Not much change for very dry New Mexico. Strangely, while good storms have frequented California, the map has imposed "very dry" status for the middle Sierras. Snow totals below normal there? A big storm this coming week and should eliminate that dry mountain condition. Continued minor improvement in the corn belt.

All the weather reporters continue to label recent storms "atmospheric rivers" or notably the "pineapple express. The strong storms are just that- normal winter west coast storms. This upcoming blast has no streamer of moisture coming from the tropics- Hawaii or otherwise. These storms- while strong- don't deliver as much moisture as atmospheric rivers.

Significant rains in the lower Mississippi move a small portion of Louisiana/Mississippi extreme drought to severe drought status. El Niño continues to provide some rain and slowly pull the lower Mississippi and the Gulf coast out of the extreeme category. Very minor improvements in the corn states .