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December storms helped, but the drought is not busted yet.

Register here for the January 23 California-Nevada Drought & Climate Outlook Webinar.

Groundwater improvements will have to wait until spring for areas with frozen soils and snow cover.

Record-setting drought in Kansas and Oklahoma to persist through winter. 

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.

Little Change in Drought Conditions Early in the Water Year

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

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