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

Moderate (D1) to extreme (D3) drought conditions continue to prevail across Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Some additional deterioration is likely into late April, before the usual onset of the wet season. 

Rolling hills with fall foliage in the Northeast U.S.
Drought Status Update for the Northeast
January 14, 2022

Monitoring Snowfall and Snow Water Equivalent for Potential to Increase Spring Groundwater Levels.

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

Runoff from melting snow flowing into a stream
Snow Drought Current Conditions and Impacts in the West
January 13, 2022

A series of cold winter storms in the western United States led to a substantial reduction in the severity of snow drought.

Colorado River running through the Grand Canyon
Drought Update for the Intermountain West
January 10, 2022

A look back at drought in 2021.

Chicos mountains in Big Bend National Park, Texas
Southern Plains Drought Status Update
January 10, 2022

Extreme drought continues to expand over Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

Drought is likely to worsen in the coming weeks and months.

 

 

Bishop Creek waterfall in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
California-Nevada Drought Status Update
January 6, 2022

A Wet December: Drought buster, false hope, or somewhere in between?

Register for the January 24 CA-NV Drought and Climate Outlook Webinar.